Read more about this book at www.chelseagreen.com

Listen to "Keep It In Vermont's" Robin McDermott on "Marketplace Radio."

Sounding good, Robin! 

One blog leads to another...

 Gotta love this Web 2.0 world while it lasts.

Archdruid John Michael Greer's post today takes thoughtful issue with our newest RSS provider, Sharon at "Casaubon's Book."

I know what some of you are thinking.

Archdruid? 

Read more and decide for yourself re: the wisdom he offers.

Free Vermont! 

So I spent almost $2000 today - to fill up our oil tank. We heat primarily with wood, but use oil as a back-up system to keep the pipes from freezing, and occasionally on days when we’re going to be out for an extended period. Our hot water is also heated with oil. For whatever reason, most oil heat in the US is in the Northeast, mostly in towns beyond gas lines like mine. I suspect today’s purchase may well be the last tank of heating oil we ever buy.

With so many self-indulgent and relatively useless blog sites out
there, it is always refreshing to find a new and provocative one.

Such is the case with "Casaubon's Book,"created by writer, teacher and
subsistence farmer Sharon Astyk back in 2004 (around the time we founded
this multimedia newspaper.)

I spent some time reading Sharon's work this morning.

I find myself appreciating her wide range
of wisdom, frank talk, and humility.

I am now RSS'ed up, and I look
forward to reading more.

I so appreciate "to do" lists during these interesting times.

Solutions are so much more important to identify than problems.

Thanks to Carolyn Baker for passing on Sharon's wonderful blog to us.

We're feeling pretty good over here, looking over this list, and is a good one.

Moving in the right direction, perhaps.

Read Sharon's 100 Things to Do to Prepare for Peak Oil here.

Roger Sutton, editor in chief of The Horn Book Magazine offers a definite "thumbs down" on Read All About It! a picture book ostensibly written by Laura Bush and Jenna Bush--in the May 11 New York Times Book Review.

Speaking of books, VSSE is offering a combined deal to people who hate to write checks: Send me $27, and I'll send you:

Distractions from political leaders make it more difficult to focus on relocalizing the economy. When politicians who know better propose solutions to high oil prices that ignore the fundamental causes of the high prices, then the time it takes to debunk them eats away from the limited time during which we have abundant energy to use in relocalizing the economy.

Oh yeah, we could suggest that Vermonters keep their federal rebate checks in Vermont.

Right. We're not a Gannett-owned giant corporate commercial behemoth for nothing.

Check out the story.

And remember - KEEP IT IN VERMONT. 

What would Ethan do? 

Read more here.