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October 2010 Blog Posts (8)
Mis-Imagining Peak Oil
In more reflective moments, or at least ones in which I focus on practical aspects and likely consequences, I am reminded that my life, and those of my friends and family, are pretty safe and secure right now, and that after Peak Oil, they will become increasingly less so. But my visceral reaction to the news that oil… Continue
Added by Erik Lindberg on October 30, 2010 at 7:03pm — No Comments
all the talents of edible trees
a garden but with more results in a smaller space with less effort in
the end. Edible trees also have all the benefits that all trees have. They
slow water with their canopy and their… Continue
Added by Sarah Moore on October 27, 2010 at 4:01pm — No Comments
The Long and the Short of It: Existential Comfort in the Age of Hopkins and Greer, Part V
The metaphysical comfort—with which I am suggesting even now, every true tragedy leaves us—that life is at the bottom of things, despite all the changes of appearances, indestructibly powerful and pleasurable—this comfort appears in incarnate clarity in the chorus of satyrs, a chorus of natural beings who live ineradicably, as it were, behind all civilization and remain eternally the same,… Continue
Added by Erik Lindberg on October 23, 2010 at 9:37am — No Comments
Future Screening of Five-Fold Path of Productive Meetings:
At the Nuts and Bolts Meeting tonight, we agreed to show two Future screenings, one part each day, of Five-Fold Path of Productive Meetings: Right People, Right Container, Right Process, Right Facilitation, Right Agenda.
I offered to host a viewing and discussion of each of the webinars. Fill out the following poll,…
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Added by Chris Terbrueggen on October 13, 2010 at 12:02pm — No Comments
"Milwaukee’s Good Food Movement" Shepherd-Express Cover Story
The Victory Garden Initiative's Founder, Gretchen Mead, is featured in this Shepherd-Express Cover Story about "Milwaukee’s Good Food Movement."
An article By Sarah Biondich
Excerpts:…
ContinueAdded by Takis Kinis on October 8, 2010 at 5:55pm — No Comments
Why plant Hazel nuts?
We have less than a week until we put our order into the Arbor dayContinue
for hazel nuts, please let us know if you are going to help
enlarge the nut aspect of our edible food forest!
Why you may ask should I order and plant hazelnuts shrubs? Well....
Our vegetable gardens are an important part of a our growing urban
agriculture movement, and represent an important part of our diets.
However, tomatoes and green peppers alone are not going to feed…
Added by Sarah Moore on October 4, 2010 at 1:58pm — No Comments
talk v/s act or lasting investments v/s where to put our bets?
I have been thinking about all of this a lot and even if her predictions are correct, some preparations she recommends can be taken by only an elite… Continue
Added by Sarah Moore on October 3, 2010 at 1:00pm — No Comments
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