What I Found Interesting This Week 2/2/2013
I had a great walk today. The ground was frozen enough for me to hike through the woods next to my home (a woods …
How Open Online Tools can Help us Build Resilient Communities
Today, Google published a map of the secretive dictatorship of North Korea. Up until today, North Korea was a blank space on public …
What I Found Interesting This Week 1/26/2013
Want to know what the secret to prosperity in the 21st Century? It’s simple. Be an asset to a community that grows, harvests, generates …
Potato Towers and Open Source Innovation
Last fall, I built some wire mesh towers to house expand my home’s composting system. I had lots of leaves to dispose of and …
How your Home can produce MORE with Less
When I walk through my home and around my yard, I’m constantly looking for ways to do more with the space I have available. …
What I Found Interesting This Week 1/19/2013
What makes a home valuable in the 21st Century? Increasingly, it’s whether the home or the community it is in produces food, energy, and …
GMO Food is the Biggest Experiment in Human Health Ever, Opt Out
I get quite a few of the seeds I plant in my garden from Baker Creek. They’ve got a stunning variety of heirloom seeds …
What I Found Interesting This Week 1/12/13
Here’s the first resilience round-up for 2013. It’s going to be an amazing year… particularly for those of us building a human~scale future. A …
How to Support Local Farms
In twenty years, almost all of the food you eat will be produced locally. The reasons for this are simple and inexorable. People want …
What is Foodscaping, Waterscaping, and Solarscaping?
First off, I hope everyone is enjoying the holiday season. It’s been great fun here at the Robb household. A great chance to recharge …