The New Farmer’s Almanac
Like the Old Farmer’s Almanac, the New Farmer’s Almanac offers long range weather forecasts, full moon dates, sunrise and sunset times, best planting dates, crop advice, tides tables, riddles, games,...
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In the category of thrilling fiction about our post-industrial future, James Howard Kunstler’s World Made By Hand novels have no equal.
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It’s to John Michael Greer’s immense credit that his work examines aspects of our collective cultural life few others dare touch–and does so more deeply than anyone else’s work does.
View ArticleReview: Don’t Even Think About It by George Marshall
Unlike most books on the subject, which try to convince people using science, Don’t Even Think About It examines why the science doesn’t convince people.
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View ArticleReview: Afterburn by Richard Heinberg
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View ArticleTwo Important New Books
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View ArticleDecline and Fall – Book Review
Very few people will read this book without bristling at least once at things Greer says…which I regard as one of its virtues.
View ArticleResilience Food Growing: A Multibook Review
A look at four books which take different approaches to creating resilient food growing models.
View ArticleMr. Toad in Union Grove: Review of A History of The Future by James Howard...
The novel is an exploration of the process of rebuilding a broken civilization, even as the old continues to decay and collapse in both expected and unexpected ways.
View ArticleReview: A History of the Future by James Kunstler
In the category of thrilling fiction about our post-industrial future, James Howard Kunstler’s World Made By Hand novels have no equal.
View ArticleReview: Star’s Reach, Not the Future We Ordered, and Decline and Fall
It’s to John Michael Greer’s immense credit that his work examines aspects of our collective cultural life few others dare touch–and does so more deeply than anyone else’s work does.
View ArticleReview: Don’t Even Think About It by George Marshall
Unlike most books on the subject, which try to convince people using science, Don’t Even Think About It examines why the science doesn’t convince people.
View ArticleFramespotting: Book review
What do climate change, sports teams and your family’s achievements have in common?
View ArticleReview: Afterburn by Richard Heinberg
Heinberg, who has few peers in the art of distilling complex messages down to simple, easily understandable take-aways, gives this summation of our fossil fuel predicament: “it’s all about energy;...
View ArticleThe Wild Edge Of Sorrow: A Book Review By Carolyn Baker
Why should we consent to an apprenticeship with sorrow and read this instruction manual for doing so? From my perspective, the answer is quite simple: Unacknowledged and unexpressed grief is the most...
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