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Dr. Guy McPherson, making the case for living off-grid in Ypsilanti

By Mark | February 18, 2012

Later today, at 6:00 PM, University of Arizona emeritus professor of Natural Resources and the Environment Guy McPherson will be speaking at the Gilbert Residence in Ypsilanti (203 South Huron Street) about his new book, Walking Away from Empire, and the steps that he’s taken to extract himself from what he sees as an American […]

Posted in Education, Environment, Politics, Sustainability | Also tagged American Empire, anarchy, barter, big-government savior state, building with straw bales, community building, conservation, decent human community, defining community, economic collapse, gas tax, gift economy, global climate change, Global Warming, Guy McPherson, health care, intentional community, Jevons' paradox, Jim Kunstler, Khazzoom-Brookes postulate, Mad Max, maintaining body temperature, mass transit, New Mexico, off-grid, organic gardening, peak oil, personal responsibility, straw bales, University of Arizona, Walking Away from Empire, water, when the shit hits the fan | 37 Comments

Death Race 2012

By Mark | January 31, 2012

It’s not that I want to run people over, but, occasionally, I see something that brings Death Race 2000 to mind, and I wonder, if I were to slip into Machine Gun Joe Viterbo mode and do the unthinkable, how many points I’d get. Today, driving through downtown Ann Arbor, I had one of those […]

Posted in Art and Culture, Uncategorized | Also tagged 1975, Annual Transcontinental Road Race, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, cars, cult classics, Death Race 2000, donkey semen, Fear Factor, Machine Gun Joe Viterbo, Rocky, Roger Ebert, running people over, Russ Meyer, Sandy McCallum, Sylvester Stalone | 8 Comments

Attend an urban gardening potluck, and avoid the cannibal holocaust

By Mark | January 4, 2010

Whenever I start to get a little too optimistic about the future, and I want to regain my foothold in the word of dystopian pessimism, I like to check in with author Jim Kunsler. Jim, for those of you who don’t know him, is the author of such books as The Long Emergency: Surviving the […]

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged bailout, banking reform, cannibal holocaust, cheap oil, civil disturbance, community potlucks, decomplexifying, discipline and fortitude of the citizenry, downscaling, Federal Reserve, Great Depression, Growing Hope, healthy food access, Hostess Ho-Hos, Jim Kunstler, jive talking, neck tattoos, re-humanizing, re-localizing, recovery, sustainable communities, The Long Emergency, urban farming | 11 Comments

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Dr. Guy McPherson, making the case for living off-grid in Ypsilanti

Death Race 2012

Attend an urban gardening potluck, and avoid the cannibal holocaust

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