Green Your Head

Why Green Your Head?

Why green your head? Because the first requirement of sustainability is to change how we think. We must start by abandoning our fantasies of unlimited growth. Technology can help us, but only if we are conscious of technology's limits. Great life, like great art, only flourishes within constraints. 

The Dome School Biochar Garden

Yesterday was the Takilma Folk Faire, sponsored by the Takilma Community Association and the Dome School. Here I interview teacher Katherine Roncalio about the school's Biochar Garden. Katherine explains how the school uses biochar, compost and urine to grow beautiful plants.

Preface to a Prelude to Peak Oil

This is my book review of Kurt Cobb's Prelude, published on Huffington Post on Friday 11, 2011 - Please visit and leave a comment.

Many green groups and other science-based analysts criticized President Obama's recent State of the Union speech for failing to mention the imminent catastrophe of climate change. Instead, the President focused on a "clean energy and jobs" message. Yet perhaps he did the best he could, given our current political reality and the extreme irrationality that infects our Tea Party nation.

Following the hideous violence in Arizona, it was a stroke of genius to call on Republicans and Democrats to sit together, pairing red and blue like a pair of those old-fashioned 3D glasses -- Obama's attempt to show us that America is much more than a two-dimensional conflict between political parties. But the State of the Union address, while considerably more three-dimensional than many I have heard, still fell far short of the reality we find ourselves in. That reality includes more than just the threat of climate change. It also encompasses the phenomenon known as "peak oil."

Report on my Brazil Trip in September-October 2010

Climate and Land Use in the USA

This post from Joe Romm's Climate Progress Blog brings up many very important issues for conservationists. Here's the post:

Big land, big clean energy opportunity - Smart land use in the fight against climate change

Fast-track renewable energy projects

Cross post by Tom Kenworthy, Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress.

View Fast-Track Renewable Energy Projects in a larger map
Source: Bureau of Land Management

America has great advantages as it faces an urgent need to accelerate the transition to a clean energy economy and a lower carbon future, including enormous renewable energy resources and a vast public and private land base to develop and deliver that clean, inexhaustible energy. This transformation will mean greater energy security and a more sustainable and prosperous economic future. Yet getting to that future will test our resolve and ingenuity. And getting there while treating our land resources in ways that sustain rather than deplete and degrade them will test our wisdom.

Check out my Huff Po piece on All Power Labs and Biochar here: http://huff.to/cGFZmC

IBI post-conference field trip - Day Two

IBI post-conference field trip - Day One

US Biochar 2010 - My Presentation

Here is the report on my Dome School biochar project along with a report on Darlyn Wendlandt's biochar project at Heritage High School.

I love this!

My article on WorldStove's biochar Haiti project is up on Huff Po. Visit and leave a comment please! http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kelpie-wilson/worldstove-transforming-h_b_556250.html