All Blog Posts Tagged 'peak' (2)

Powerdown Week, Ultimate Food Challenge Conclusion.



I’m just a simple farmer from Shorewood who got mixed up with a bunch of Riverwest radicals. They made me think a lot about the future of the world and the way we use energy. Food, they taught me, is embedded with fossil fuels in its production, so I try to eat stuff I grow without fossil fuels (mainly).



Last week I tried to eat only things I grew, supplemented by a few staples procured in town at the General Store (damn… Continue

Why Anger Towards BP is Largely Misplaced



Like anyone who gives a damn about anything, I too have been watching the BP oil spill with horror. It is becoming increasingly clear that this is well on its way to becoming an unprecedented ecological disaster for North America, perhaps our Chernobyl. At the least, it is likely to have environmental ramifications for decades to come and may prove to be a watershed moment in American energy policy as the images of futile technological efforts… Continue