Two’s-day is when I post my interpersonal and political items for the week that aren’t directly related to alternative energy, organic gardening or off-grid living.
There were a couple of good reviews posted on the Interblogs about Alongside Night, a novel by J. Neil Schulman that brings agorist philosophy to life more directly than any other […]
I recently posted a comment against the shutting down of tax havens, proposed in an article headlined “Pin Striped Pirates” at the Australia Permaculture Research Institute site.
As the saying goes, “There would be no tax havens if there were no tax hells.” I’ve had my own personal tax troubles in the past, but not […]
Happy New Year! Welcome to all the new laws in effect now, giving me a flashback. I was probably the first victim of the cell phone restrictions in California back in July.
To put it in context, I live in Nevada and was driving to L.A. a day or two earlier, during the time when gas […]
Here’s a searchable directory of bike co-ops from bikecollectives.org. They even had an exhibit in Las Vegas at the bicycle industry’s trade show, Interbike.
One of the listings led me to the following about a Bike Over Borders conflict:
“. . .we learned first hand that the policies of “free trade” are made for corporations, not for […]
Fans of Silent Running will be interested in Art Carden’s latest article for the Ludwig Von Mises Institute, “Should We Be Recycling Paper or Building Battlestar Galactica?”
“Should we be recycling paper and preventing people from building parking lots to save trees? Or should we acknowledge that the planet will be destroyed sooner or later and […]
A Kurzweil AI post describes the rapid growth of off-grid households.
“Once the preserve of mavericks, hippies and survivalists, there are now approximately 200,000 off-grid households in the US, a figure that has been increasing by a third every year for the past decade.”
The post links to a New Scientist story, How To Unplug From The […]
A Boing Boing post by Mark Frauenfelder links to this instructables article titled “Imitation Alka Seltzer For A Fraction Of The Cost.”
To be precise, the make at home version is probably higher than the manufacturing cost (not including packaging and distribution to markets). But the price of the ingredients is much less than any store […]
Following up the Coffee to Biodiesel story, it seems to me if you could grow your own coffee, as described at home coffee roasting supplier Sweet Maria’s, that would be great. Yeah.
Supposedly, a percentage of already processed (but not roasted) beans can become viable sprouts. After a couple of years a coffee tree can become […]
There are advocates of hemp for biofuel, just as there are for tobacco.
That’s my excuse for including this anti-drug-war item on a permaculture blog. I’m also sick of seeing COPS style reality shows which glorify the destruction of our freedom. The latest atrocity is a new show called Heimatschutzministerium, or to translate from the […]
This Oregonian article about Ty Adams describes his conversion of a recreational vehicle into a sustainability demonstration.
“It runs on biodiesel, has solar panels for its electricity and hot water, a composting toilet and channels to catch rainwater.”
See Ty’s website at SolTrekker.org or watch his SolTrekker Intro video (also embedded below) and see the Portland TV […]
After reading an article about a new Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) initiative, I thought back to the off-grid Seasteading project, started by one of PayPal’s founders.
In their new book in progress, Seasteading: A Practical Guide to Homesteading the High Seas, by Patri Friedman, Wayne Gramlich, and Andrew House, under a section called “Technological […]
I inherited a “Huffy” bicycle about as rusty as my riding skills, and the rear tire is flat. Otherwise, it seems sturdy enough to carry my weight and has convenient storage that easily fits a six pack. Which of course would only be for green tea or something eco friendly.
Instead of America’s nouveau poor going […]
If you have “attention surplus disorder,” watch one of my favorite authors, Neal Stephenson, discuss his new novel, Anathem, and his earlier work in this YouTube video of a Google Talk he gave in September.
From the YouTube video description:
“Fraa Erasmas is a young avout living in the Concent of Saunt Edhar, a sanctuary for […]
Boing Boing’s Mark Frauenfelder linked to a Marijuana Policy Project chart showing that 9 out of 10 marijuana decriminalization initiatives passed across the nation. The prison guards in California caused the only defeat, of Prop 5.
“Proposition 5: Expand the number of drug offenders diverted from prison into treatment and decriminalize the possession of up to […]
Geo. McCalip’s True American Century is a counter-neocon site with good energy and environmental positions and a plan to reduce our incarceration rate to the lowest in the world. The prison guard union isn’t going to like that!
The good ol’ neocons would have us shocking and awing forever to cement the world order for a […]
An AP news item at Philly.com that I saw linked from Fark (!) has the headline “Energy hogs: prisons now recycle, grow own food.”
Excerpt:
“LITTLEROCK, Wash. - Of all the things convicted murderer Robert Knowles has been called during his 13 years behind bars, recycler hasn’t been one of them.”
“But there he was one morning, pitchfork […]
Stefan Molyneux speech from 2006 with a libertarian take on pollution, energy and the like.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j27XJ0vjr0Y
While looking for a Halloween themed drawing of Ayn Rand on a broom to scare you about the economic mess, I came across the news that Mises scholar Larry Sechrest died October 30.
Jeffrey Tucker wrote:
“Our dear friend Larry Sechrest, professor of economics at Sul Ross University, and a long-time writer and speaker for economic liberty, […]
Free-market libertarian (but Obama voter this election), J. Neil Schulman, used his patented retrocausality chronoresonator to record this news item from next week:
http://www.cnnbcvideo.com/index.html?nid=JHmzvz.moGf1gxqohLM1PDczNDY1OTg-&referred_by=12794030-fwzem5x
A Living Off The Grid article lists six schools with homesteading courses. The list includes Homesteading Heritage Center for Essential Education (Texas), Apple Family Farm (Indiana), Muller’s Lane Farm (Illinois), The Institute of Urban Homesteading (California), Pioneer School of Homesteading (Michigan), and Self-Reliance Resources (North Carolina).
The schools are reasonably described with web links to each […]
Boing Boing announcement by Mark Frauenfelder of the launch of H+: Humanity Plus, a new online magazine, helmed by veteran editor R.U. Sirius. The first issue is available as a free PDF download.
H+ “. . .covers the scientific, technological, and cultural developments that are challenging
and overcoming human limitations.”
One “mini interview” in the issue, by another […]
The OpenFarmTech.org site has an active community applying the open source ideas from computer technology to off grid homesteading and local farming.
The OpenFarmTech.org folks are as enthusiastic about small scale cheap (and ultimately free) automation like RepRap “Wealth Without Money” ideals as I am, except they are actually deploying RepRap and other doodads applied to […]
This Kurzweil AI article quotes author Richard Dooling’s description of his appearance topics on Coast To Coast AM:
“. . .how a wizard, an atomic physicist, and the Unabomber predicted the Wall Street debacle.”
Kurzweil AI also describes Dooling’s latest book:
“Rapture For the Geeks is a witty, fun, fast-paced, and very readable romp through the latest […]
U.S. News and World Report online edition May 30 story described Crash scenario author, Peter Schiff, as a “Permabear.”
Former Reagan economic adviser Art Laffer, of the “Laffer Curve,” thought the economy was untroubled over two years ago on August 28, 2006 in the embedded CNBC show I noticed at New Mogul. Opposing him was […]
Josh Tickell’s movie, Fields of Fuel, which promotes biodiesel over petroleum based fuel, won the audience prize at Sundance 2008 for the Best Documentary. The cast list includes Barbara Boxer, Richard Branson, Sheryl Crow, Laurie David, Larry David, James Gennaro, Larry Hagman, Woody Harrelson, Jay Inslee, Jack Johnson, Bud McFarlane, Willie Nelson, Director Josh Tickell, […]
Guest blog post
by Brad Linaweaver
Today the Republican Party does not observe the high standards of McCarthyism. Senator McCarthy had the courage of his accusations. When he believed the State Department was a nest of Communists (an undisputed fact) he went after the State Department. He didn’t do so well when he went after the Army. […]
If you like the bank bailout, you’ll love government food control.
“Codex will go into global effect on December 31, 2009, unless we, the People, take action and avert it.”
This page at Health Freedom USA describes the Codex Alimentarius.
“Because Codex is so heavily influenced by corporate interests, its decisions are, in our opinion, often helpful to […]
Even though I’m a non-voting anarchist crank like Wendy McElroy, I thought I’d help prepare readers for today’s Veep debate with the following documentary. (Houston Chronicle said: “Thursday’s vice-presidential debate has the potential to be a smack-down or a train wreck. Either way, it could be great TV.”)
Why should you suffer ignorance just because of […]
From the description at YouTube:
“In this segment from Hippy Gourmet TV we visit with Michael Funk, an organic food entrepreneur who lives in a sustainable home that runs off of solar power and solar hot water. On the Yuba River, Michael is also involved with SYRCL (the South Yuba River Citizens League) - established to […]
The neocon war blog China Confidential takes the Obama-Biden campaign to task for pushing “biodiesel baloney.”
“. . .biofuels are so menacing that opposition to their use cuts across political and ideological lines to an astonishing extent–from Cuba’s Communist leader, Fidel Castro, to America’s libertarian Cato Institute and conservative Heritage Foundation.”
“But Barack Obama apparently sees the […]
J. Kent Hastings
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