[ March 18, 2009; 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm. ] Green your thumb. Green our community.

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By Ross DePaola

Every oil well goes through a birth-to-death cycle. Global production is now peaking at “middle age,” and, while we haven’t run out of oil, we are running out of cheap oil.

Continue reading Peak Oil – A Problem that Just Won’t Go Away....

[ March 2, 2009; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] Movie Night at Escape Java Joint, 916 Williamson Street, Madison.
Brought to you by the Madison Area Permaculture Guild.

Continue reading “Establishing a Food Forest: The Permaculture Way”...

The Natural Step Monona has offered study circles for two years. These ideas are those of participants in nine out of twelve of those circles. The ideas of the other three most recent circles will be added. Check back!

Continue reading List of ideas from nine TNS circles...

The City of Monona Fall/Winter Guide offered several steps to help make our homes and our community more sustainable. Here are many more to consider.

Continue reading More Steps to Sustainability (Monona Fall Guide)...

Suppose our leading scientists discovered that a meteor, hurtling toward the earth, was set to strike later this century; the governments of the world had less than ten years to divert or destroy it. How would news organizations cover this story? Even in an era of financial distress, they would throw teams of reporters at it and give them the resources needed to follow it in extraordinary depth and detail. After all, the race to stop the meteor would be the story of the century.

When it comes to global climate change, it is sometimes said that we are the meteor.

Read the rest of this article by Eric Pooley at http://www.hks.harvard.edu/presspol/publications/papers/discussion_papers/d49_pooley.pdf

Continue reading How Much Would You Pay to Save the Planet?...

Happy Valentine’s Day!
Show your sweetheart you truly care with unexpected gifts that do good.

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[ February 2, 2009; 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm. ] This is no time to be chicken! Wait… It IS time to be chicken!

Continue reading City Council Chicken Meeting...

[ February 10, 2009; 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm. ]
Cure the winter blues by planning for spring with our Sustainable Gardening Panel. Bring your questions about all aspects of gardening: Permaculture, community gardens, composting, plant selection, etc. Try to stump our esteemed bunch of green thumbs: Kate Heiber-Cobb, Permaculturist Designer/Consultant, Sustainability on Stilts, and founder of Madison Area Permaculture Guild; Joe Mathers, Community Gardens [...]

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