These are the places we go almost every day for information, inspiration and confirmation. If you want a balanced, non-industrial view of the status of the industrial age, make them part of your daily life too. Organized, annotated and linked for your convenience.
Agriculture
GM Watch — as in genetically mutilated (sorry, modified) food and crops. This site chronicle what few others do — the spreading and worsening destruction being done by genetic engineers to our diminishing sources of food.
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Climate Change
Climate Progress is the blog of Dr. Joseph Romm, a senior fellow at the Center for America Progress Action Fund. He has been called by Time Magazine “the Web’s most influential climate-change blogger.”
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Energy
Association for the Study of Peak Oil — one of the few sources of objective information about the worst current threat to the security of the human race.
Energy Bulletin — published by the Post Carbon Institute, this site keeps up with the otherwise smothered news about the arrival of, and effects of, peak oil.
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Environment
Environment News Service — PR news releases relating to the environment, put out by people with something to sell, but informative nevertheless.
Science Daily — daily updates on the latest research news, in every category of scientific endeavor.
Environmental Journalism Today — the stories that the members of the Society of Environmental Journalists are working on.
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Sustainable Living
Joel Salatin (Polyface Farms) – the high priest of sustainable agriculture in this country, Joel has inspired thousands of us to reconnect with the land and the animals that can thrive on it. This is his farm site, but don’t expect him to ship any steaks across the country: he famously refused to do just that for Michael Pollan, who explained why inOmnivore’s Dilemma.
Sharon Astyk (Casaubon’s Book) is one of the best writers and thinkers on the planet when it comes to understanding and surviving the looming crisis of industrial society being brought on by resource depletion and climate change. Unlike most who contemplate the situation, she walks the walk, living sustainably on a New York farm and showing the rest of us the way forward.
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Friends and Family
Aquatic Invasive Management — dealing with invasive species in Adirondack Lakes the old-fashioned, sustainable way: by hand.
Philly Eco City — seeking ustainability in the city.
Learning from Dogs — meditations that illuminate our line of country.
