Permaculture Pros

By Barbara H. Peterson:

Why did Monsanto Develop an Aluminum Resistance Gene?

Monsanto is currently marketing an aluminum resistance gene. Here’s the spin, folks:

Katherine Goldstein
Huffington Post

Blowing Up: Wind Power Growth Up 39% Due To Stimulus Investment

While debates about the economy, unemployment and the effectiveness of the stimulus plan continue to rage throughout the country, their appears to be a bright spot for proponents of clean energy stimulus spending.

Tim Webb
London Guardian
Copenhagen Dampens Banks' Green Commitment

Banks and investors are pulling out of the carbon market after the failure to make progress at Copenhagen on reaching new emissions targets after 2012.

Jeff Rubin, the former Chief Economist of CIBC World Markets and the author of Why Your World Is About To Get A Whole Lot Smaller built his reputation as one of Canada's top economists. In this video, he explains peak oil, de-globalization, re-localization, and pollution as they relate to the current recession and the economy overall.

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Eric deCarbonnel
Market Skeptics

If you read any economic, financial, or political analysis for 2010 that doesn’t mention the food shortage looming next year, throw it in the trash, as it is worthless.

Those who study current events are largely in agreement that we appear to be reaching a critical tipping point in terms of the environment, economics, geopolitics, and even consciousness. A concerned public – some now openly calling themselves “survivalists” – desire to be more independent and live a more self-sufficient lifestyle.

Jennifer Grayson of Red, White and Green wrote an excellent article for HuffingtonPost on the challenges of avoiding Genetically Modified foods.This topic is especially important given the recent report about Monsanto GM Corn being

Green building has become an immense industry with an intimidating amount of techniques and materials. The high cost of many of these "green" methods is a deal breaker for most of us.However one method, straw bale construction, is proving to save money during construction, provides energy savings once erected, and it seems anyone can learn to build with it.

Los Angeles Times: P.J. Huffstutter
Reporting from Detroit - On the city's east side, where auto workers once assembled cars by the millions, nature is taking back the land.

Cottonwood trees grow through the collapsed roofs of homes stripped clean for scrap metal. Wild grasses carpet the rusty shells of empty factories, now home to pheasants and wild turkeys.

We were all taught the American Dream, that if you study hard, get a good job and work hard you’ll be able to own things and eventually find economic freedom in your retirement years. Indeed, this “dream” is now being sold all over the world. This story has been reinforced at nearly every dinner table in America. Once we buy into this fantasy we become shackled and our very existence becomes defined by it.