<p>Oh yes, I'm going to be talking a lot about hugelkultur beds because we just finished our first small section of it this afternoon.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.energybulletin.net/stories/2012-11-15/making-hugelkultur-bed">read more</a></p>

<p><span class="inline inline-left"><img src="http://www.energybulletin.net/sites/default/files/images/shutterstock-energy-puzzle-blog-sq.thumbnail.png" alt="" title="" class="image image-thumbnail" width="100" height="100" /></span>What we really need is to invest our capital (both financial and sweat) in community-owned, distributed, and small-scale renewable energy. Why?

<p>Two weeks ago I was in my hometown of Hoboken, New Jersey, wading waist deep in a murky combination of floodwater, oil and sewage. More than a week later, after finally getting unstuck from New Jersey (even the deepest Jersey pride has its limits…), I found myself in a van full of Occupy Sandy activists delivering hot meals to housing-project high rises in Coney Island during a Nor’easter.</p>

<p>If a society does not have some vision of where it wants to be or what it wants to become, it cannot know whether it is heading in the right direction – it cannot even know whether it is lost. This is the confused position of consumer capitalism today, which has a fetish for economic growth but no answer to the question of what that growth is supposed to be <i>for</i>.</p>

<p><span class="inline inline-left"><img src="http://www.energybulletin.net/sites/default/files/images/4533208885_576bddf4ac.thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" class="image image-thumbnail" width="100" height="100" /></span>We all know that walking is good for us. It sheds calories, tones muscles, and clears our minds.

<p><span class="inline inline-left"><img src="http://www.energybulletin.net/sites/default/files/images/6a00e0099229e88833017ee462ddb2970d-400wi.thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" class="image image-thumbnail" width="100" height="75" /></span>The velomobile offers a more interesting alternative to the bicycle for longer trips.</p>

<p><span class="inline inline-left"><img src="http://www.energybulletin.net/sites/default/files/images/frometsycom-900x300.thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" class="image image-thumbnail" width="100" height="33" /></span>Ever since we first got together my husband and I have talked about how to respond to one of our key shared interests — peak oil.</p>

<p><span class="inline inline-left"><img src="http://www.energybulletin.net/sites/default/files/images/letterpress-550x410.thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" class="image image-thumbnail" width="100" height="75" /></span>President Obama aroused the GOP's ire for reminding business owners of the obvious point that their success relies in part on roads and bridges built at public expense.

<p><span class="inline inline-left"><img src="http://www.energybulletin.net/sites/default/files/images/screen_shot_2012-10-14_at_8.59.56_pm.thumbnail.png" alt="" title="" class="image image-thumbnail" width="100" height="87" /></span>California has often led the nation on environmental issues and California’s communities of color are implementing effective climate change responses that address so

<p><span class="inline inline-left"><img src="http://www.energybulletin.net/sites/default/files/images/IMG_0222-300x225.thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" class="image image-thumbnail" width="100" height="75" /></span>No, that’s not the cry of a spoiled child. It’s food, calling to you! Anyone can grow, gather, or make a lot of their own food.

<p>New Mexico residents are trying to a break free from Los Alamos’ nuclear legacy by creating more environmentally sound ways of living.

<p><span class="inline inline-left"><img src="http://www.energybulletin.net/sites/default/files/images/RBBP_BOH_Poster.thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" class="image image-thumbnail" width="76" height="100" /></span>So you’ve made the big jump. You’ve left the conventional business world behind and you’re starting a business of the new future.

<p><span class="inline inline-left"><img src="http://www.energybulletin.net/sites/default/files/images/thumbv3_1.thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" class="image image-thumbnail" width="100" height="50" /></span>About an hour north of Philadelphia, nestled in the rolling terrain of South Mountain, lies The Seed Farm, a nonprofit organization working to grow a new crop of farmers in the Lehigh Valley.

<p>It's been interesting lately to hear voices from the mainstream questioning our growth-obsessed capitalist economics and calling up Karl Marx from his grave.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.energybulletin.net/stories/2012-10-12/res-communes-%E2%80%93-rise-citizen-led-fair-market-alternatives-capitalism">read more</a></p>

<p>A late-summer conference that brought city gardeners and construction developers from around the world to Toronto has just issued a declaration. The statement calls for a new generation of living infrastructure that’s built in partnership with what’s conventionally thought of as urban agriculture.</p>