Artisan Crafting, Traditional Folk Skills, and Urban Homesteading. A very study and aesthetically pleasing shelf. I used a hand saw, an electric drill, and one seven year old. When you urban homestead, everyone wins.

Gardening as an Investment in Food Security. Thursday, June 10, 2010. I dreamed about the chickens last night. We had five dozen in the fridge when they went away. The photo above is a good representat.

Reflections on insights of global challenges and ecoliteracy. Each of us occasionally puts our proverbial head in the sands - especially in our Western World. Sometimes we neglect social injustices. Sometimes we take abundant clean water for granted. Sometimes we forget to go easy on our energy consumption. Sometimes we buy stuff just to buy stuff. This is our culture; the one we were bred into and accept.

The Road Goes Ever On and On. Please welcome Amy, Brandon, and friends as the new stewards of the Madison Freeskool. We are deeply grateful for the presence of the Freeskool in our lives, and that means YOU! Thank you for being part of the Madison Freeskool community. We wish you all the growth and insight, the motivation and magic, of learning and teaching your whole lives long.

Growing a sustainable, resilient, and vibrant community. To all who find this blog, Transition Madison Area is on hiatus. If you are interested in sustainability groups in the Madison area, then submit a post to this blog, and it will get to me eventually. We are the ones we have been waiting for. We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For. You have been telling the people that this is the Eleventh Hour.

Poe MR, McLain RJ, Emery M, and Hurley PT. Urban Forest Justice and the Rights to Wild Foods, Medicines, and Materials in the City. A collection of books pertaining to the theory, design, and practice of .