Last week I wrote a bit about resilience, what it means, and why people are talking about it so much these days. If you’re anything like me, you nodded, said “I get it, I get it…” and immediately moved on to the next obvious question: “What makes a community resilient?”
According to the Transition approach, the [...]
Welcome to the next installment of Transition Friday. Transition Tuesday would be nice and alliterative, but would require me to get my act together on Tuesdays, which isn’t going to happen.
If sustainability was the buzzword for 2009, resilience is it for 2010. That was my thought at the beginning of the year, and I was [...]
One of the (too many) books I’ve been reading lately is The Transition Handbook by Rob Hopkins. I read it as part of the Hyperlocavore book club, which turned out to be really fantastic. (The chat logs from our weekly sessions are still available, although the conversations have mostly wrapped up.) The book was a [...]
Have you ever had one of those moments when you realized that not everyone was on the same page? Not all on board? I had one of those moments yesterday. And then I realized that it’s because it doesn’t exist. Because people don’t read – they just wait for the movie to [...]
Happy Friday, peeps. And happy New Year, everyone! Or everyone on the Gregorian calendar that is. (Wikipedia = time suck.)
To be honest, until I got back online yesterday morning, I hadn’t even registered that today would be the first day of a new decade. But it seems that over the last week, everyone else has [...]
My sourdough culture is dead. Again.
I don’t know why I can’t seem to get this thing to live. I am alive. My pets are alive. Even my incredibly finicky bonsai tree is alive (and blooming!). But this little colony of yeast and lactobacillus just isn’t happy with me.
I try to do the right thing. I [...]
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