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It is a really simple idea - things that can't go on the way they have been, usually don't. Sooner or later things that have no future just stop. We all know intellectually that we can't all live and consume like middle class Americans, that our kids are going to have a harder time because of our way of life, that Empires end and ecological disasters cause things to come to hard stops. We know it, but we don't KNOW it. This blog is about coming to KNOW, and figuring out where we go from here. I'm a science writer, teacher, environmental activist and small farmer who is trying to put her lifestyle where her mouth is, and live in a way with a future. When not writing books, serving on the board of the Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas, I run my farm with my husband, where we raise dairy goats, herbs, pastured poultry, heirloom vegetable plants, children and havoc.
March 29, 2010
Category: refugees
There will be more people on the move than ever before in this century and some of them may be you and your neighbors.
Posted by Sharon Astyk at 9:53 AM • 43 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 28, 2010
Category: food waste
It is fascinating to me how much outrage is being generated about farmers in Florida who are composting the strawberry crop rather than pay to have it harvested.
Posted by Sharon Astyk at 2:38 PM • 21 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: farm stuff
On a farm, chores are something else - they are bookends to each day, a formal structure like the forms of a sonnet or musical scales that shape the day.
Posted by Sharon Astyk at 10:26 AM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 25, 2010
It isn't a magic bullet. But an acre, well, that's something. I ran a CSA off an acre once. I lived a whole life in a city in just a few acres once. And drops in buckets eventually fill them up to overflowing.
Posted by Sharon Astyk at 2:30 PM • 20 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: food stamps
It is fascinatingly difficult to try and figure out what we think poor people should eat - we criticize them freely for buying junk, and then we criticize them for buying high quality food. Where is the space that the poor are free to choose in?
Posted by Sharon Astyk at 11:39 AM • 30 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: food preservation
I've had a lot of people ask when I was going to run food preservation and storage again, and ta da! I am. I'm doing it as a six week course, run asynchronously online on from April 15 to the...
Posted by Sharon Astyk at 10:16 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 24, 2010
Category: Climate Change
Study after study has shown we are much closer to critical tipping points than expected - most probably too late to fully turn back. It would be easy to abandon the struggle to limit emissions altogether, but of course, we have to be able to articulate the critical difference between 2.5 and 6 degrees C.
Posted by Sharon Astyk at 8:41 AM • 36 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 23, 2010
Category: Home and Family
I'm not displeased that my six, eight and four year olds know what animal intercourse looks like, but I sometimes wish they would constrain their habit of informing the children of guests exactly what the poultry are doing.
Posted by Sharon Astyk at 4:57 PM • 17 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Peak Energy
It isn't exactly news to most of us that we've been using just about every resource on the planet far too casually, but it is interesting to see them tied together
Posted by Sharon Astyk at 10:46 AM • 47 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Book Stuff
The funny thing is that I'm not usually a total overachiever - I'm much more of a slacker, and I think after three years of insane overachieving, my inner slacker is back. This is actually probably a good thing, if my goal is (and it is) doing good work but also having a good life.
Posted by Sharon Astyk at 8:26 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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