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New Energy Report from IEA Forecasts Decline in North American Oil Supply

Reblogged from my Integral Permaculture site.

National Public Radio’s “Morning Edition” reported this morning:

NPR’s Business News starts with the outlook for oil. This is a change of course – the International Energy Agency…

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Added by David MacLeod on June 5, 2014 at 12:29pm — No Comments

Come to the Farm and Be Inspired! Primary Practical Permaculture

Reposted from my Integral Permaculture blog.

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If you’re in the region of northwest Washington, or southwest B.C., consider stopping by Inspiration Farm on…

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Added by David MacLeod on May 26, 2014 at 9:27pm — No Comments

An Energy "Renaissance"?

Reposted from my Integral Permaculture blog.

David – I thought we were entering an energy “renaissance” with new and easy ways to extract gas via fracking.  Obviously, I understand the downsides of fracking.  Can you elaborate?

Ken Mann

Whatcom County Councilmember

Yes Ken, I…

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Added by David MacLeod on April 5, 2014 at 10:13am — No Comments

Wise Man, just learned of him

Sounds like a rebel to me - I like rebels.

"There is now a single issue before us: survival.
Not merely physical survival, but survival in a world of fulfillment, survival in a living world, where the violets bloom in the springtime, where the stars shine down in all their mystery, survival in a world of meaning."
—Thomas Berry

Added by Margo Terrill on March 25, 2014 at 10:46pm — No Comments

Oil Company Woes: This is What Energy Depletion Looks Like

The Bellingham Herald had a front page article Wednesday indicating the dismay being expressed by the County Council over the fact that the two largest corporate taxpayers are challenging their property tax assessments.  These would be BP Cherry Point refinery and the Phillips 66 refinery in Ferndale.

The…

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Added by David MacLeod on March 14, 2014 at 12:34pm — No Comments

Compost Islands for New York

An architectural designer has proposed a series of compost islands for New York City. Not only does it look nice but, of course, solves a huge problem for New York. Good for them! I like all the good, creative energy going into sustainable practices all over the globe. I don't know if this would work - but it is my 'feel good and hopeful' news for the day.…

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Added by Margo Terrill on March 14, 2014 at 11:13am — No Comments

Celt's Garden - California Dreaming in a Drought

It's time to pull out the seed starting trays. Onions, scallions, tomatoes, and perennial herbs first, then as March gets on, Asian green stuff, salad greens, brassicas and flowers. Some delicious green stuff, such as spinach, is essentially water. Water that is becoming expensive and possibly unavailable to California farmers. Even the cute plastic bags of organic salad greens are water piped hundreds of miles from rivers, sprayed on 10,000 acre lettuce patches in the desert and then…

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Added by Celt M. Schira on February 24, 2014 at 7:10pm — 2 Comments

Nicole Foss on Deliberate Attempts to Cause System Failure

This post is a continuation of my series discussing David Holmgren’s Crash On Demand essay, and the multitude of responses that have popped up in the peak oil blogosphere.

One of those responses was by Nicole Foss, of The Automatic Earth. In fact her response was a…

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Added by David MacLeod on February 22, 2014 at 10:00pm — No Comments

David Holmgren Responds to "Crash on Demand" Discussion

The blog post I wrote below is one of many circulating in the peak oil scene. I’m looking forward to hearing David Holmgren in his own words on this radio interview on Sunday, Feb. 2nd.  He’ll be answering  some of the questions raised in the recent debate on his essay “Crash on Demand.“ 8pm London time, I believe that’s Noon PST, here in Bellingham.

Here’s…

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Added by David MacLeod on February 1, 2014 at 4:12pm — No Comments

What Is PatternDynamics?

I'm excited for our workshop to begin tomorrow morning, and as I was waiting for Tim's arrival I was studying some of his material.  What follows are all Tim's words, but I've organized and put together various statements he's made to form another summary of what PatternDynamics is about.  There's still a little time…

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Added by David MacLeod on January 25, 2014 at 3:30pm — No Comments

Embodying the Patterns of PatternDynamics

In my previous PatternDynamics post (Following the Way Nature Organizes Itself to Deal with Complexity), I focused mostly on giving a fairly brief explanation of the underlying theory. In this post I’d like to share a little bit about the embodied experience of some of the Patterns that occurs during the PatternDynamics…

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Added by David MacLeod on January 9, 2014 at 6:00am — No Comments

PatternDynamics: Following The Way Nature Organizes Itself to Deal with Complexity

 

 

The natural world is staggeringly complex, and yet amazingly elegant in how it manages the multitude of interconnected parts into organized, unified wholes that thrive.  What is the secret for harnessing this elegance for use in human systems? Tim Winton found that observation of the most common patterns found in the natural world led to the development of high level principles which can then be used to address the most complex challenges that human systems…

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Added by David MacLeod on December 28, 2013 at 1:00pm — No Comments

Crash on Demand: David Holmgren updates his Future Scenarios

Future Scenarios David Holmgren, co-originator of the Permaculture concept, published Future Scenarios in 2007, originally as a website, and then published by Chelsea Green in 2008 as a…

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Added by David MacLeod on December 17, 2013 at 8:12pm — No Comments

The Global Butterfly Effect

"We are Life, in human form. Ancestors of the stars and galaxies, children of the oceans and forests. We are creative expressions of Nature, as much a part of this planet as the rivers, trees, mountains and butterflies."



~ The Global Butterfly Effect ~



For thousands of years people in Western cultures have been wrestling with the illusions we've spun from our dualistic mindsets and beliefs. It's…
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Added by J. C. Walker,Jr. on December 15, 2013 at 9:24am — No Comments

3 Minutes of Wisdom from Robyn Francis

"Robyn Francis is one of the 26 contributors to Permaculture Pioneers – stories from the new frontier. In this short interview, introduced by co-editor Kerry Dawborn, Robyn talks about how permaculture informs everything in her life now,…

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Added by David MacLeod on December 5, 2013 at 9:56pm — No Comments

City Limits

 

If truth be told, the legacy of myopic insight and action is the residue beholden to the individual and the collective. Unrecognized, any evolutionary aspects become hamstrung into conforming to recognizable patterns, albeit unconscious, this tendency darkens the way.

Many folks are familiar with the development of electricity in America and the squaring off between Thomas Edison and Nicholas Tesla. As Edison purported D.C. current and Tesla backed the A.C. ,…

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Added by J. C. Walker,Jr. on December 1, 2013 at 10:00am — 1 Comment

Top 10 Hits - Resilience.org and Energy Bulletin

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Added by David MacLeod on November 18, 2013 at 12:25pm — No Comments

Malware Alert Be careful out there.

Malware Alert

Be careful out there.

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Added by Paul Kuepfer on November 13, 2013 at 2:35pm — No Comments

You Say You Want a Revolution

Reblogged from Integral Permaculture

Naomi Klein’s recent article posted at New Statesman has been generating a bit of a buzz. The title is “Why Science is Telling All of Us to Revolt and Change Our Lives.” She begins with a story discussing a presentation by complex…

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Added by David MacLeod on November 10, 2013 at 10:27pm — No Comments

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