If we had to, we could have survived on are garden alone through the fall and winter. All because we really wanted to do it and nothing was going to stop us. So we found ways to extend the seasons, and to use them to our advantage. Article includes ten reasons to grow a 4-season garden, what crops to grow, and when to grow them.

Cultivating a suburban foodshed (audio and video)
Talking directly, and kindly, to believers in the eco life - (profile of "Ask Umbra")
Little Farm in the City(text and video)

Plan seeks neighborhood leaders in capital city
Rediscovering bicycles, and her inner kid
New bike commuters hit the classroom, then the road
Pinching pennies like your grandparents

Can a dose of recession solve climate change?
David Holmgren interview - transcripts now online
Interview with William R. Catton, Jr. - author of "Overshoot"(video)
President of National Academy of the Sciences: Energy Challenges

Energy Collective: new site for energy discussions
Utne special: Mother Earth’s big comeback
Post Carbon Relocalize Newsletter #23

By the time we were finished [with the interview], I felt that I’d lent myself to a subject about something I really know very little about - that is, preparing for a hypothetical crisis that may come someday. What I actually am starting (and I’m still just starting) to know something about is living in such a way that I’m somewhat insulated (not perfectly) from a whole host of scenarios.

Theme - "Plan C: Individual and Community Survival Strategies for the Energy Crisis" Conference to be held at Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan. Speakers include Dmitry Orlov, John Michael Greer, and Richard Heinberg.

The Dean of Dung is Back - and Full of Gas!
Bloomberg offers windmill power plan
New York Mayor sees conservation as main path to energy savings
Golden image of corn-based ethanol shows some erosion

The Stories We Tell Ourselves: "One of the things that makes our culture’s reliance on the utopian myths of progress and apocalypse so problematic as we approach the end of the age of cheap energy is that both narratives claim to explain the entire universe."
Tools for the Transition: "One of the most hopeful features of this side of our predicament is that the revitalization of old technologies can be done successfully by individuals working on their own. It’s precisely those technologies that can be built, maintained, and used by individuals that formed the mainstay of the economy in the days before cheap, abundant energy..." (paean to the slide rule)

Bicycle inspiration. The following photos were taken at train stations around the world. Also: "If You Have Biker's Block."