Archive | August, 2011
Film series: food production
Two clips follow. The first features yours truly giving a bloated overview of some of the food-production strategies we are employing at the mud hut. We have not included mushroom plug spawn, wildcrafting, or hunting local animals (including nonnative bullfrogs and crayfish). The second clip features one of my partners on the property describing the [...]
Continue reading...Film series: introduction and water security
28. August 2011
In an earlier series of posts, I identified the four primary attributes necessary to thriving during the post-carbon era (or, for that matter, today): water security, food security, body temperature, and human community. The series was introduced with an essay filled with assumptions and caveats and followed with an essay about individual options and, much [...]
Continue reading...Caged: Memoirs of a Cage-Fighting Poet
26. August 2011
Cameron Conaway is not a warrior poet. He is the Warrior Poet. I strongly recommend his memoir, which will be published next month. I reviewed an early draft of the manuscript when I was finishing my employment at the University of Arizona. Caged is described at goodreads as “a captivating account of a young man [...]
Continue reading...infallible authority
22. August 2011
by the virgin terry (bio follows earlier essay in this space) 3 men were freed from death row or life in prison in the world’s bastion of ‘justice and freedom’, the usa, last week. in what has become a celebrated case, the ‘west memphis three’ were finally released after dna evidence exonerated them 4 years [...]
Continue reading...Three paths to near-term human extinction
20. August 2011
About a decade ago I realized we were putting the finishing touches on our own extinction party, with the party probably over by 2030. During the intervening period I’ve seen nothing to sway this belief, and much evidence to reinforce it. Yet the protests, ridicule, and hate mail reach a fervent pitch when I speak [...]
Continue reading...Triage
15. August 2011
by Kathy Cumbee 1 a: the sorting of and allocation of treatment to patients and especially battle and disaster victims according to a system of priorities designed to maximize the number of survivors b: the sorting of patients (as in an emergency room) according to the urgency of their need for care 2: the assigning [...]
Continue reading...Defending agrarian anarchy
10. August 2011
I can scarcely believe agrarian anarchy needs defending from anybody, much less me. After all, this close-to-nature, close-to-our-neighbors approach was the Jeffersonian ideal for the United States, as evidenced by Monticello and the occasional one-liner from Thomas Jefferson: The result of our experiment will be, that man may be trusted to govern themselves without a [...]
Continue reading...Catching up
5. August 2011
This brief post is used to point out three former activities and one future one. I present them as I live: in chronological order. My July essay at Transition Voice summarizes collapse-related information. I am featured in this article from 14 July by editor Erik Curren at Transition Voice. I am featured in this article [...]
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30. August 2011
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