When disaster strikes: looting or love?
Citizens helped the military clean up after an earthquake in New Zealand. Can citizens of large countries achieve the same camaraderie? Photo: NZ Defence Force. “A powerful riposte to those who argue...
View ArticleRaising a garden bed: build or buy?
The local Transition group’s brand new community garden needed raised beds. So we tried a couple different ways to get them. As part of our local Transition group’s efforts to make local food more...
View ArticleYour fossil fuel free garden
We use a scythe at our garden to save on fossil fuels and also because we love Halloween. Photo: Pot Noodle/flickr. It’s the first season for our Transition group’s community garden, but already we’ve...
View ArticleSustainable farming mania is frustrating me
Photo: fireonthehill/Flickr. I’m certainly no farmer. I work at a computer all day. So it’s odd that the books that get me most jazzed up these days are not about the big problems of the day — the...
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