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From rehabilitating backyard soils contaminated with heavy metals and chemicals, transforming old gas station sites or abandoned lots into lush, healthy and safe community commons, to responding to oil spills, how can we repair and regenerate damaged and contaminated landscapes by allying with natures powerful healers and using tools and …

Emily Talen and Andres Duany, authors of Landscape Urbanism and its Discontents: Dissimulating the Sustainable City, launched their book at this week's 21st Congress for the New Urbanism.

New Urbanism is the movement dedicated to the restoration of existing urban centers, the reconfiguration of formless sprawl into real neighborhoods and diverse …

Dmitry Orlov's long awaited, The Five Stages of Collapse: Survivors' Toolkit is now off press.  Note the position of the apostrophe - Survivors', a toolkit for more than one.  Personally, I would like to be in that number, so Dmitry's advice is very welcome.

Supply Shock: Economic Growth at the Crossroads and the Steady State Solution by Brian Czech is now off press.  This refreshingly accessible, comprehensive critique of economic growth presents a compelling alternative to perpetual economic growth.  Brian Czech is the founder of Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy (CASSE), the …

In today's post, Carol Peppe Hewitt, author of the recently released Financing Our Foodshed: Growing Local Food With Slow Money shares the story of her book from its inception to the moment of its arrival on her door step (well, on Piedmont Biofuels' doorstep - read on).  Carol says she started "spreading the gospel of Slow Money" but what she …