Happy New Year folks.

Good stuff from Rob Hopkins, founder of the Transition Towns movement, he addresses some interesting fallacies regarding stories we have been telling ourselves, warns about dependence on a knowledge economy and discusses the concept of 'resilience' in our ecosystems and economies.

http://permaculture.tv/rob-hopkins-transition-on-ted/

Announcing a new online course in cooperatives at UConn:

Cultivate the cooperative movement!

More than 800 million people around the world are members of
co-operatives, including an estimated 1 in 4 Americans. And yet, few
colleges or universities offer courses that explore the contribution
co-ops make to our economy and society.

The University of Connecticut realizes the dire importance of co-operative
economies and offers you a new 3-credit online course, Introduction to the

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgbNymZ7vqY&feature=player_embedded

Some great photos from our planting this past weekend.

http://picasaweb.google.com/bountifulbackyards/CCGCEdibleLandscapeInstall#

If you have 25 minutes, check out this awesome interview with David Holmgren, co-founder of Permaculture on his view of the future.

Holmgren argues, given no discoveries of new cheap energy, each generation will live with less and less available energy. This is in sharp contrast to the energy ascent of the last 500 years with the discoveries of coal, oil, and natural gas. He does not believe that the presently pervasive idea of sustainability, in the sense that we can use new efficient technology to upkeep our current lifestyles, is probable.

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Dear Friends,