Links

Resilience:

Excellent collection of articles about ecology, foodsecurity, new strategies, very inspiring and wideranging!

https://www.resurgence.org/education/climate-change/resilience-supplement.html

affordable electric assist pedalpowered covered autonomous transport, has potential for a low impact delivery vehicle, and even a small RV!

http://www.organictransit.com/models.html

Lessons learned from Monsterstorm Sandy:

http://new.usgbc.org/articles/building-resilience-6-lessons-superstorm-sandy

The Great Turning:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Korten

another perspective on the new economy;

http://www.utne.com/environment/building-a-green-economy-ze0z1301zgar.aspx#

Deep ecology,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joanna_Macy

Experiential deep ecology, preparing for the Great Turning, Joanne Macy offers so much!

http://www.joannamacy.net/

The transition town movement:

  http://www.transitionnetwork.org/about

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transition_Towns

Food Security:

permaculture is a good starting point:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/permaculture

here is an active forum:  http://www.permies.com/forums/

and various newsletters, american centres, at;

http://www.permacultureactivist.net/maillists/emaillists.htm

on healthy soil:

http://www.utne.com/environment/fertile-soil-zm0z13jfzwil.aspx?fb_action_ids=10151356972829769&fb_action_types=og.likes&fb_ref=s%3DshowShareBarUI%3Ap%3Dfacebook-like&fb_source=aggregation&fb_aggregation_id=288381481237582

urban farming how to;  create, feed  soil, with compost, vermiculture, turn lawn into rich soil, without rototilling, digging,  with lasagna layers of organic matter sheet mulched!  all kinds of practical advice for no work mulched urban farming!  http://soilbuilders.wikispaces.com

welcoming wild and solitary pollinators;

http://www.pollinatorparadise.com/Solitary_Bees/SOLITARY.HTM

hosting your own orchard bees, how to build nesting sites;

http://gardening.wsu.edu/library/inse006/inse006.htm

close encounters with insects, flowers, amzing biodiversity, a flickr macro photo group, here;

http://www.flickr.com/groups/flowers-and-insects-macro/pool/

urban farming, winterhardy veggies, pollinators;

sustainable energy, housing

building your own;

http://www.builditsolar.com

short articles on many strategies to reduce carbonfootprint;

http://solarcomfort.wikipages.com/

photo gallery of  inspiring solar design:

http://picasaweb.google.com/vizpix/EcodesignAndCommentary?feat=directlink&qu

Photopool of green architecture:

On the importance of thermal mass  in passive solar and  natural  summer cooling:

https://thenaturalhome.com/passivesolar.html

promising tech news around carbon reduction:

http://southsidedelite.blogspot.com/

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