Couple Uses Massive Lottery Payout to Build Community Infrastructure
Here’s a great story. Mark and Cindy Hill, from Dearborn, Missouri, recently won a quarter billion dollar lottery payout. What makes them different from the …
How a Retiree Invented a Way to Save Big $$ on 3D Printing
Snow is slowly starting to fall outside my window. It’s a sign that (hopefully) the last blizzard of the year has arrived. As …
How to Turn Organic Waste into Food and Income with Mushrooms
I had a great talk today with Ryan Sansbury. Ryan is one of the founders of LoGROcal, a sustainable mushroom farm outside of Austin, …
Here’s How to Build an Engine of Prosperity in Your Community
Here’s something EVERY community should have, but almost none do. This isn’t a picture of a factory or cubicles in an office building. It’s …
What I Found Interesting This Week 3/3/2013
Here’s two seemingly unrelated items that caught my eye this week. As different as they are, they are connected. They are both connected to …
We Can Figure out Local Abundance!
Human beings are built to solve problems. It’s our nature to do so. Further, when lots of us are working on a solution …
A Smart Way to Finance Local Energy Abundance
This is a picture of all of the electricity a family will need for the next twenty years: Doesn’t seem like much, does it? …
What I Found Interesting This Week 2/24/13
It’s amazing easy to get started with building a resilient home. Additionally, it’s possible to do it with a budget that is close to …
A Biochar Revolution? Let’s Find Out
I just had a great phone call with Jeff, one of the founders of the Biochar Company. He and his company are doing the …
Running your Home as a Resilient System
I’m ready for the winter to end. It’s been a good one so far, but the snow is keeping me indoors more than I’d …