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New book on Permaculture Design 28 Jun 2012 | 05:52 am
Permaculture Design A step-by-step guide by Aranya Permanent Publications 2012 Pbck; 191 pp UK Permaculture teacher Aranya has produced a new book on Permaculture design. This handy field guide tak...
Growing Perennial Vegetables 22 Apr 2012 | 09:16 am
Book Review How to Grow Perennial Vegetables Low-maintenance, low-impact vegetable gardening by Martin Crawford Forward by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall Green Books 2012 ppbck 224pp Martin Crawfo...
Natural Building Workshops at Dancing Rabbit 29 Dec 2011 | 03:50 am
Ziggy from Dancing Rabbit Eco-Village in Missouri asked me to post this re. building courses they are hosting next year: In 2012, my partner April and I are actually building a new straw bale & timbe...
The Rational Optimist on Crop Circles and other Scientific Heresies 3 Nov 2011 | 04:51 am
New on Skepteco
7 Billion Minds, 7 Billion Hearts 1 Nov 2011 | 12:02 pm
New on Skepteco: 7 Billion Minds, 7 Billion Hearts
Skepteco: Peak Oil Personalities 31 Oct 2011 | 10:08 am
I have just resurrected the Skepteco blog and put up a post on Colin Campbell’s forthcoming compilation Peak Oil Personalities in which I have a chapter about my own “Peak Oil journey”. Other contribu...
Apios Americana 23 Oct 2011 | 11:12 am
Just harvested the first apios americana tubers. Also known as the groundnut or potato bean this curious vegetable is a legume and shade- tolerant climber that produces strings of edible tubers up to...
ThinkorSwim censor Zone5! 5 Sep 2011 | 05:30 am
On February 4th this year I wrote a post called Climate Change: Will the Real Skeptics Please Stand up?. A couple of weeks later, I offered the same post to John Gibbons who runs the climate change bl...
American Odyssey Part 2: Permaculture in the Pacific North West 26 Aug 2011 | 09:38 pm
Living mushrooms for sale in the Ferry Terminal Building, San Francisco: After two weeks of driving it was a relief to bring the car back and get onto the train to Seattle. Amtrak’s Coastal Starlight...
GMOrganic a Love Story 18 Aug 2011 | 09:01 pm
Great little video featuring Pam and Raoul in Davis California: GMOrganic: A Botanical Love Story from News21 Berkeley 2011 on Vimeo.