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This is a stream of blog posts from our on-site bloggers, and, a growing list of blogs we re-publish from Transition Voice, This Low Carbon Life, Reslience.org's news feed and Transition US.

FROM THE ARCHIVE: Herbs for Resilience - Yarrow

Published on June 19, 2013 by Transition Norwich

I wrote the post below almost three years ago in September 2010, but walking back home today I spotted the first yarrows coming into flower where I live near the Suffolk coast, and was reminded of it. Yarrow is truly a midsummer herb, and seeing it flowering in its right time in a year of such strange timings, I felt at once relieved and brought back into some sort of balance.

Original article: 
http://transitionnorwich.blogspot.com/2013/06/from-archive-herbs-for-resilience-...

Alternative Energy Challenges

Published on June 19, 2013 by Resilience

The various obstacles to alternative energy compound the fundamental challenge of how to supplant a fossil fuel–based supply chain withone driven by alternative energy forms themselves.

Original article: 
http://www.resilience.org/stories/2013-06-19/alternative-energy-challenges

The Farm Bill’s “Government Handouts”: Who Really Benefits?

Published on June 19, 2013 by Resilience

If we are going to be truly resilient, then we must be compassionate about the suffering of those around us, and we must seek ways, both through policy and through our daily individual actions, that will help to rectify this suffering.

Original article: 
http://www.resilience.org/stories/2013-06-19/the-farm-bill-s-government-handouts...

Life in the Green Lane

Published on June 19, 2013 by Resilience

Impossible, many folks would tell me. Special bike lanes are strictly a European thing that would never fit in our newer, auto-dominated cities. You’re selling America short, I answered...

Original article: 
http://www.resilience.org/stories/2013-06-19/life-in-the-green-lane

The Next New Economy

Published on June 19, 2013 by Resilience


Hardly a new idea, the sharing economy has been hotly discussed among rising entrepreneurs and the media since the global recession of 2008.

Original article: 
http://www.resilience.org/stories/2013-06-19/the-next-new-economy

City Bees, Country Bees

Published on June 19, 2013 by Resilience

Honeybees are not the only ones in trouble--bumblebees are too. This is the first of a two part series that will discuss how urban areas might be bumblebees’ best chance for survival.

Original article: 
http://www.resilience.org/stories/2013-06-19/city-bees-country-bees

Land, apples, and political engagement in Scotland

Published on June 18, 2013 by Resilience

The community growing movement in Scotland reveals a desire, and an opportunity, for a more profoundly democratic politics.

Original article: 
http://www.resilience.org/stories/2013-06-18/land-apples-and-political-engagemen...

To power up or power down? That is the question

Published on June 18, 2013 by Resilience

Recently I read that our challenge in the twenty-first century is to triple global energy demand “so that the world’s poorest can enjoy modern living standards, while reducing our carbon emissions from energy production to zero”.

Original article: 
http://www.resilience.org/stories/2013-06-18/to-power-up-or-power-down-that-is-t...

Former Soviet Union crude oil exports declined by 5.5 % in last 2 years

Published on June 18, 2013 by Resilience

Russia is at its 2nd and last oil peak. The easy oil is gone. The FSU export peak comes ahead of the production peak.

Original article: 
http://www.resilience.org/stories/2013-06-18/former-soviet-union-crude-oil-expor...
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