Growing your own food can be a way to increase the security and health of your family in a world facing the multiple challenges of peak energy and resources, unpredictable and more severe climate, and financial uncertainty. At the same time, gardening may become more difficult due to the strange and shifting weather and uncertain consequences of peak oil.

MONTPELIER, Vt. - When a fish taken from the Connecticut River recently tested positive for radioactive strontium-90, suspicion focused on the nearby Vermont Yankee nuclear plant as the likely source.

In this time of transition, two stories run through the culture. One is about continual growth and ascendancy. It's mainstream culture's story, the everyday world we're familiar with. The other is the as yet little known story of radical change and descent as we enter the time of necessary simplification - reskilling, retooling, relocalizing.

As we struggle to fashion a livable future from the crumbling disaster of industrial civilization, we will need a general guide -- and specifically, perhaps, a guiding document. This is my attempt at fashioning such a document from the accumulated wisdom of our great teachers. I invite (implore!) others to improve on my efforts.

The Australian left remains heavily divided and fragmented. Will this situation ever change? Is there a road to greater unity of the socialist left?
Speaker: Tony Dewberry.
This is one of a regular series of seminars to be held each Wednesday fortnight on key questions facing the socialist movement; each seminar will feature a talk which will be followed by discussion.