A New Collection of Essays by Wendell Berry

Our Only World, from Counterpoint

This book cover image released by Counterpoint shows "Our Only World," essays by Wendell Berry. (AP Photo/Counterpoint)
Google Books
One of the essays: "The Melancholy of Anatomy" (available to subscribers only)

AP article

From last year:
Listen to Michael Krasny’s Interview with Wendell Berry and Gary Snyder for KQED Forum

Remarks by Woody Tasch

Post by Slow Money.

Two Responses to Globalization

Globalization vs. the Humane Economy by by Ralph E. Ancil
The Next Lesson From Holland: Why Local Money Matters by James Fallows

The Berry Family

Author and activist Wendell Berry, called a modern-day Thoreau, receives prestigious prize by John Platt
The farmer, essayist, poet and critic has been awarded the 2013 Dayton Literary Peace Prize.

His daughter: July 2013: Slow Money Minute

Food and Localism

Erik Curren, Convinced that food can save America
Woody Tasch - Funding Our Own Local Food Economy
Helena Norberg-Hodge: Localisation: An Economics of Personal and Ecological Wellbeing
The Myth of Progress vs. Sustainability and Treating All Life as Sacred


To Make a Farm

Items of Interest, 2 May 2012

‘Obscure Scribblers’ of the World, Unite!
Dr William Partlett reflects on the best way of overcoming the right-left divide

The Manhunt to Capture Osama Bin Laden

Why the Loyalty Day Declaration is a Good Thing
Vox Day

Judge Napolitano: Eric Holder Could Be Held In Contempt For Non-Response On Fast & Furious

Counterpunch:
PATRICK COCKBURN, Why Osama Lives
DAVE LINDORFF, The Constitutional Crimes of Barack Obama
RUSSELL MOKHIBER, Bribery as a Business Model

Economics and Relocalization:
5 Questions for Woody Tasch

Meet Your Food Chain

USDA Publishes "Regional Food Hub Guide"
USDA? What's its hidden agenda?

David S. D'Amato: Don’t Worry About Occupy

Here's Why Google and Facebook Might Completely Disappear in the Next 5 Years
Looking solely at meeting market demand; not at the deeper question of whether they are sustainable without a consumer base to generate advertising revenue for anyone.

Permaculture:
Celebrate International Permaculture Day
Why permaculture needs accurate data and measurement to persuade the mainstream

Energy:
Richard Heinberg, Top 11 FAQs (EB)
Moving towards ethical energy by Ian Westmoreland (EB)
My Neighbors Use Too Much Energy by Tom Murphy (EB)

Catholic:
Chant Cafe links to this: Four Kinds of Chant
Chant Inspires the Blogosphere
It Is Time to Get Serious About Catholic Social Doctrine

CWR review of Beauty Will Save the World
Rod Dreher, On Beauty Saving the World

The Case for Catholic Teaching: Seminar on Women, Sexuality & The Church
the book
NCRegister
Authentic Freedom and Equality in Difference

Feminism:
An introduction to the investigation into the mental health of female medieval mystics

Diet and Health:
From 2010: Art DeVany on the New Evolution Diet and Exercise Program


MDA: 5 Primal Superfoods for Fertility and Pregnancy

5 Tips to Keep Your Baby's Feet Healthy

Why Do I Wear Five Fingers

Women, Weights, and Bone Density

Music:
NewFound Road - MS


Merlefest 2012 in Pictures


Katie Melua - Moonshine (Live) - Smooth Radio


Sequentia: Thes habet er ubar woroltring - Jaroslaw, 2009


Interview: Violinist Rachel Podger’s sunshine lights up this week’s Tafelmusik concerts

Movies:
BBC to screen four Shakespeare history plays after 30-year gap

TV:
Sherlock: A Character Who's More than Elementary

Etiquette:
Business Casual

Energy Bulletin: SLOW MONEY: Making local economies work (VIDEO CHAT)

here

Items of Interest, 29 February 2012

How Much is That Politician in the Window?
Sarah van Gelder on a record season of corporate-funded political advertising and what it means for the 99 percent.

Srjda Trifkovic, The Afghan Debacle

U.S. announces diplomatic breakthrough with North Korea
But should the US really be shouldering all of the burden (with respect to food aid)?

New Navy Railgun Tests Leading to Ship Superweapon by 2020

Russell Kirk, Virtue, Can it be taught?

Edmund Burke on the virtue of justice.

John Robb, The Fall of Stratfor

America as a Constitutional Republic: When Can the President Kill?

Vladimir Putin 'virgin' voter advert becomes online hit

Economics:
Kevin Carson, Communal Property: A Libertarian Analysis and On Brandon Darby and “Sanctioned Use of Force”

Relocalization:
Wyoming prepares for "complete meltdown of the federal government"
Wyoming apocalypse plan: crazy or visionary?

Slow Money Principles

Occupy Educated and Occupy U

Gene Logsdon, Yet another look at winter grazing (EB)

Peak Oil and Energy:
Myhrvold finds we need clean energy yesterday (and no natural gas) to avoid being cooked

The View from Brittany: Imperial Leftovers

Dmitri Orlov, A pile of straw at the bottom of the cliff (EB)

My great hope for the future by Tom Murphy (EB)

Feminism:
Throne, Altar, Liberty: The Folly of Feminism

Slow Down and Eat Up: New and Best-selling Slow Food Titles on Sale

Catholic:
NLM: Dino Marcantonio, St. Germanus and Turning Eastward
Mendicants and Merchants in Fifteenth Century Florence


Dominican Rite Missa Cantata on March 7 in New York City

History:
A Response to Anglo-Saxon Heroism and Fourteenth Century Chivalry: Ideals for the Warrior in the Writings of J.R.R. Tolkien
Peregrini, Barbari, and Cives Romani: Concepts of Citizenship and the Legal Identity of Barbarians in the Later Roman Empire

From melkimx: Elizabethan Compendium

Education:
The Circe Institute's Free Audio Library
Classical Education After the Digital Revolution, Part 1 of 3

Diet and Health:
Jimmy Moore, What’s With The Antagonism About Low-Carb From The Paleo Community Lately?


Free the Animal: Synthesis: Low-Carb and Food Reward/Palatability, and Why Calories Count

Mark Sisson asks whether the primal blueprint diet would be sustainable if everyone followed it: Can We Feed the World on the Primal Blueprint Diet? – Part 1

The Science of Barefoot Running



Romanian Brothers, Age Seven and Five, Are Unbelievably Strong

Fermentation Workshop with Sandor Katz DVD Trailer


Music:
Sequentia for the BEMF

Just Before Chris Thile, There Was A Certain Mandolin Player...


The Academy of Ancient Music on BBC Radio 3. (6 days left to listen)

Placido Domingo & Stephen Colbert: La Donna E Mobile


Andrew Carwood sings Byrd's praises - The Cardinall's Musick.

Misc:
Spyderco Trademark Round Hole

Items of Interest, 13 February 2012

Thomas Fleming, The Conservatives' War on Marriage
Obama’s Game by Srdja Trifkovic

Steve Sailer reviews Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010, by Charles Murray - The Bell Curve’s Toll. (Plus, Ross Douthat gets the Charles Murray book's biggest oversight)
NPR
Coming Apart, and Back Together? by Ryan T. Anderson

What Madison Meant - a review of Kevin Gutzman's book on James Madison, which is official released today.

Blog: The Incendiary Insight

Russell Kirk: What is the Object of Human Life

David Walker, Our make-believe federal budget

Trollin’ all the Sheep: The Grammys are Decadent and Depraved by Jordan Bloom
I read elsewhere that they did not televise Alison Krauss and Union Station being awarded their Grammy. I don't think the group performed, either. Their competition was supposedly pretty good.

Afghanistan:
Afghanistan, Unreformed, Unreformable
Fabius Maximus: Rolling Stone releases Colonel Davis’ blockbuster report about Afghanistan – and our senior generals!

Obamacare:
Robert George, An Unacceptable Accomodation
Notre Dame Professor: White House Announcement Today Is ‘Inadequate’
HHS “compromise” is Unacceptable, says former Vatican ambassador, Catholic University of America president, and others
Why the “Hawaii Compromise” is No Compromise At All
Bp. Slattery (D.Tulsa) on Pres. Obama’s “Plan B”
Glendon, George react to Obama’s “morally obtuse”, “insult to the intelligence”, and “cheap accounting trick”

Counterpunch:
Foreclosure Settlement: Just Another Link In a Long Chain of Corruption by PAM MARTENS
The NDAA and the Militarization of America by CARL MIRRA
Decoding the Pentagon’s Budget Numbers by WINSLOW T. WHEELER

Economics:
Richard Heinberg Schools Vancouver on the New Economic Reality
Peak oil educator Richard Heinberg challenges “binary thinking”
It's the end of the world as we know it, author says

Max Keiser Interviews Dmitry Orlov


Derrick Jensen: A New Declaration

Relocalization:
The New Geography of Trade: Globalization’s Decline May Stimulate Local Recovery by Fred Curtis and David Ehrenfeld (EB)
Bay Area investment group connects socially responsible lenders, local farmers
Building the local food infrastructure by Olga Bonfiglio
A different way to spend – CSA style by Tim Lawrence (EB)
New Study: Locally Owned Businesses Contribute to the Health of their Communities

Energy:
Tom Murphy, The Alternate Energy Matrix (EB)

Water:
Texas Water District Acts to Slow Depletion of the Ogallala Aquifer

Feminism and Misandry:
Swedish Feminists: Men Must Sit With Their Legs Crossed
All Men are Official Suspects
As Mancession Fades, Women “Suffer”

Christianity:
Circe Institute: The Primary Purpose of a Woman
Traditional Christianity: Gender’s Separate Spheres

William Oddie, If a woman is a priest, she can also be a bishop: if she’s not, she can’t. Either way, there is now only one way out for Catholic Anglicans: it’s over the Tiber
The Real Anglican Patrimony
Manifestations of Lived Continuity: A.D 1000 to A.D. 2012

Mexico:
Stay away from Mexico. (Or most of it.)

Links of Interest, 9 February 2012

Rod Dreher, Obama Chose Feminists Over Religious Liberty
Patrick Buchanan, Obama Tramples on God's Turf

Planned Parenthood’s Grand Delusion, by William Murchison

Komen's Karen Handel quits after funding dispute
Komen Exec Quits Over Funding Flap
Former Susan G. Komen VP Karen Handel: Planned Parenthood "Hijacked This Great Organization"

"Court Strikes Down Ban on Gay Marriage in California"
The Ninth Circuit’s Desperate Targeting of Justice Kennedy by Matthew J. Franck

Climate Science Goes Megalomaniacal by FRANKLIN C. SPINNEY
From last week: No global warming since 1997
'I Feel Duped on Climate Change'

Iran:
Philip Giraldi, All the Lies Fit to Print

Economics:
Uneconomics: a challenge to the power of the economics profession by William Davies (EB)

Richard Heinberg: Happiness is the ultimate economic indicator

Wee shall overcome: Tiny houses, big plans by Jessica Dur (EB)

Relocalization and Agrarianism:
Localization is the Economics of Happiness

Farmers Go Wild by Abby Quillen (EB)

Cold weather conundrum by Gene Logsdon (EB)

A day in the life of a Transitioner
Charlotte Du Cann, Transition Norwich Blog
(EB)

Wes Jackson, Forever Planting

The Benefits of Gratitude

RJ Snell, Creative Fidelity and Weighty People

10 Reasons to Become Self-Sufficient and 10 Ways to Get There

An interview with Michael Shuman from 2009. His
Local Dollars, Local Sense.
resilience.org

A Toast to Local Farmers with Michael Shuman from Robert Russell on Vimeo.

Woody Tasch and Michael Brownlee at the Wilkinson Public library


Energy:
Roger Ebert reviews Windfall (NYT)


ALAN FARAGO, Big Wind’s Inconvenient Truth

Obama's energy stool by Rolf E. Westgard

Diet and Health:
http://energybulletin.net/stories/2012-02-06/school-lunchrooms-put-planet-and-kids-risk

Christianity:
Let us be Human: Christianity for a collapsing culture by Sam Norton (EB)

Remembering the Jesus Seminar by Rev. George W. Rutler



Education:
Why Russell Kirk's Teaching Humane Literature in High Schools is MUST Reading
by Robert M. Woods

Items of Interest, 9 January 2012

Daniel McCarthy: Conservative Movement at a Crossroads (mp3)
Tom Landess, R.I.P.
Alt Rght interview with PJB

The US-Iran economic war

CIA Chief Endorses Ron Paul (Michael Scheuer, of course.)

Rick Santorum Sounds Like Rachel Maddow on Nullification

Patrick Deneen, University, Community, Universe

Economics:
Do We Really Understand What an Economy Is? by John Willson

Lee Cheek, Agrarianism and Cultural Renewal

Is Distributism a Form of Capitalism?

John Zmirak, Say It Loud: Bourgeois and Proud

Ryan Grant, How to Prepare for Catastrophe

David Korten: Walking Away From the King from Katie Teague on Vimeo.

Money and Life

Via JM:
How US Policies Fueled Mexico's Great Migration
and


Energy and Sustainability:
Enough is Enough

Occupy Educated: Educating and Uniting 100% of the 99%

Tom Murphy, The Future Needs an Attitude Adjustment and Nuclear Options

There Is More to It than Oil by Chris Clugston
Oil Shock - The No Growth World by Alex Smith (EB)
Occupy sustainability by Juliet Schor (EB)
Economics: pre- and post- Copernican by Erik Lindberg
Heinberg, Kunstler, Foss, Orlov & Chomsky on A Public Affair

Relocalization:
What Is 'Slow Money'?

The Storm Surge of Decentralization
Death of an Institution: Desperate Mergers & Destructive Acquisitions

Everything you could possibly want to know about ‘In Transition 2.0′ by Rob Hopkins (EB)

Blog: Catholic Land Movement

Maybe old tractors do die by Gene Logsdon (EB)

As economic growth fails, how do we live? Part II: Out with the old
by Craig A. Severance (EB)
In with the new: part III of "As economic growth fails, how do we live?"
by Craig A. Severance (EB)

Wendell Berry:
On Wendell Berry: As farms go, so go the cities by Erik Curren (EB)

Counterpunch:
The Whole World is Watching by KEVIN CARSON
Why America Can’t Afford Its Military by Col. DOUGLAS MACGREGOR

Feminism:
Oz Conservative: Brainwashing Norway

Diet and Health:
Gary Taubes on Dieting

Items of Interest, 26 December 2011

Thomas Fleming, America's Term-Limit Monarchy

Marion Montgomery passed away in November.

Blue Collar Intellectuals by Daniel J. Flynn
Taxing Our Way to Prosperity by Thomas Pauken

Another interview with John Michael Greer, primarily on the end of the world at Extraenvironmentalist (mp3).

Re: California - Vox Populi: Failling to Notice the Obvious
There have been a lot of migrations within the U.S., but this part of the state is the best representative of the lack of culture and community and the continued displacement of people that results when economic advantage is the priority? Michael Shedlock - Businesses Exit California and Illinois; Tax and Destroy Policies of Governors Quinn and Brown; Unemployment Rates By State. What would happen if the state were to become more friendly towards business with alternate forms of organization - workers co-ops, and the like?

Ginna interviews Woody Tasch – Founder of SlowMoney


Brian Kaller, Father Christmas, homesteader (EB)

Identity Crisis (EB)

I’m a sharecropper, organic gardener, and milker of goats, as well as a democrat, a republican, a liberal, a conservative, a radical, an idealist, a pragmatist, a teacher, a mentor, a scientist, a writer, a skeptic, a scholar, a cheese-maker, a son, a brother, a husband, a lover, and a human animal. I’m comfortable with my beliefs and personal philosophy. I’ve thought deeply about my tiny place in this enormous universe, and I’ve come to value humility over hubris. And still I’m having an identity crisis. A crisis of confidence. An ego-crushing moment. The longer the industrial economy lasts, the more my identify is pummeled, along with my hope for the living planet. Every day under the rule of Athena drives me further into despair. It’s as if my ego were a proxy for the planetary rate of extinction.

Considering the effort I’ve put into defining myself and my place in the universe, I can only imagine the difficulty ahead for the typical American drone. He values his imperial role and fails to recognize the empire for what it is. He gets his news from the television and affiliated media outlets and fails to recognize that form of propaganda for what it is. His sense of entitlement is exceeded only by his ignorance of the role nature plays in his survival. And yet, he’s ahead of me.

After all, unlike the American drone, I’m clueless about what to do. I’ve invested heavily in a reasonably sane set of living arrangements, only to have nature call me further down her path. I’m attempting to serve as a witness, and occasionally a warrior, as the living planet tries to survive the insults of industry. I’m trying to show another — hence, contrarian — way, for a world gone mad. And in return, I’m unappreciated as never before in memory (including even my final decade at the university as viewed through the lens of my dean and department head).

Christmas with No Presents? by Colin Beavan

Let's Unstuff the Holidays by Fran Korten

Zenit: Pope's Urbi et Orbi Address
"Only the God Who Is Love, and the Love Which Is God, Could Choose to Save Us in This Way"

Let us think today about all the Christians who give their life for their faith, says pope

China: As Wukan celebrates and Haimen fights, Guangdong becomes a land of protests

Items of Interest, 4 October, 2011

Rome Reports: Jaime Rodriguez, new secretary general of the Legionaries of Christ


The Lifeboat Hour - 09/18/11
September 16, 2011
Mike welcomes Carolyn Stayton and Trathen Heckman of Transition US to discuss the predicament humanity finds itself in and the importance of rapidly deployed collaboration of like-minded individuals and organizations. (mp3)

Tactical culture: Porchfest

The 10 Commandments - Guidelines to Surviving in a Post Peak Oil World by Chris Rhodes

Slow Money:
Edible Radio: Episode 102 Kitchen Sync with Woody Tasch

Peter Hitchens, Still Useless After All These Years – the Tory Party’s amazing survival

Seminar Slams Folly of Perpetual Economic Growth

David Korten: Why I'm in Solidarity with #OccupyWallStreet

Counterpunch:
PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS, The Day America Died (LRC)
JOHN FEFFER, Why 2012 Will Shake Up Asia and the World
THOMAS H. NAYLOR, Is the Jig Up on Wall Street?

American Council on Exercise Evaluates Benefits of Vibram FiveFingers® Shoes for Barefoot Runners

Army Times: New SOCOM boss touts ‘indirect’ action forces

The “Do’s” and “Don’ts” of Open Carry Part I by Roger Phillips

BCM:

Locavesting

Fast Company: "Locavesting": Investing In Main Street Instead Of Wall Street
BY Danielle Sacks

Locavesting: The Revolution in Local Investing and How to Profit From It by Amy Cortese - press release
blog
Slow Money profile

The "Slow Money" Movement May Revolutionize the Way You Think About Food
By Kari Lydersen, AlterNet (via Carolyn Baker)

Slow Money: Bringing Money Down to Earth
Brooke Jarvis, Yes! Magazine
Woody Tasch has thought a lot about money: what it does, how it moves, and how to connect people who have it with people who need it. He's been a venture capitalist, a treasurer and advisor to foundations, and the chairman of a network of angel investors. He even helped found a field of investing with the rather surprising name "community development venture capital."
But he found that even socially responsible investing couldn't do much to fix an economy that focused too much on extraction and consumption and too little on preservation and restoration.

(original)

The Humane Economy: Slow Money: where capital and culture collide (via Rod Dreher)

Slow Money Alliance

I haven't watched the video, but can local businesses survive where there is no customer base interested in supporting local businesses?

This post at Design21 has more links to youtube videos.

Related Links:
Author profile page for Woody Tasch--Chelsea Green: The Politics and Practice of Sustainable Living

He'll be in Sausalito next week--
Woody Tasch at Food & Farming on the Urban Edge
Cavallo Point, the Lodge at the Golden Gate, 601 Murray Circle, Sausalito CA 94965
March 24, 2009, 6:00 pm

Slow Money - Encouraging Ethical and Sustainable Investing
Q&A: Woody Tasch MNN - Mother Nature Network
Woody Tasch: Slow Money Interview P&P
Woody Tasch: Slow Money = Compost for Growing New Economy (mp3)
Investing Local: Woody Tasch
Slow Money with Woody Tasch
Woody Tasch: Slower, Smaller and Local dotSUB
The Santa Barbara Independent Woody Tasch
Amherst Magazine Winter 2005