Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Items of Interest, 26 May 2010

An Interview with Peter North (original)
Rob Hopkins, Transition Culture

Pete North's new book "Local Money: how to make it happen in your community" will be formally launched at the 2010 Transition Network conference and will be available to order here at the end of this week. The latest book in the Transition Books series, "Local Money" is a comprehensive overview of local currencies, and how to plan and implement such a scheme.

Sustainable Medicine: An Issue Brief on Medical School Reform (original)
Dan Bednarz, Health after Oil

This issue brief calls for changes in medical school culture, primarily curriculum, research and clinical practice, as a conscious response to the simultaneously ongoing fiscal/economic crisis and what E.O. Wilson has termed the Bottleneck of ecological dilemmas, shown most prominently but not exclusively as the worldwide peak in crude oil production. Together these forces will reconfigure modern society, particularly health care.


Irony In Garden Farming (original)
Gene Logsdon, OrganicToBe.org

It says in the books that hens have to eat commercial mash to lay a profitable number of eggs. All the farming tradition they know about or been taught says you have to feed mash. Momma fed mash so don’t you dare insult her memory. Ditto for papal infallibility.

Deepwater Horizon: This is what the end of the Oil Age looks like
by Richard Heinberg

Mark Weisbrot, The Eurozone's Self-Inflicted Crisis

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