Toby Hemenway, Guest
Waking Times
Jared Diamond calls it “the worst mistake in the history of the human race.”(1) Bill Mollison says that it can “destroy whole landscapes.”(2) Are they describing nuclear energy? Suburbia? Coal mining? No. They are talking about agriculture. The problem is not simply that farming in … More
Toby Hemenway, Guest
Waking Times
Permaculture is notoriously hard to define. A recent survey shows that people simultaneously believe it is a design approach, a philosophy, a movement, and a set of practices. This broad and contradiction-laden brush doesn’t just make permaculture hard to describe. It can be off-putting, too. … More
Andrew Willner, Guest
Waking Times
We live in dangerous times, when economic collapse, climate chaos, and peak oil threaten the foundations of society, abundance, and all we hold dear. “Business as usual” will no longer suffice, because that way leads to certain pain, peril and impoverishment.
Unspeakable acts of … More
Throughout centuries of farming, animal grazing and deforestation, the earth’s natural resources have been exhausted. Deserts are encroaching into previous lush areas and water is becoming alarmingly scarce.
Our soil is depleting 13% faster than it can be replaced, and we’ve lost 75% of the world’s … More
Jill Richardson, Guest Writer
Waking Times
My new neighbor knocked on my door and introduced herself as the vice president of the local homeowner’s association. “How friendly!” I thought. “She’s welcoming me to the neighborhood.”
Then she wrinkled her nose and motioned toward an enclosed bin on my porch, saying, … More
Does the idea of getting fresh, nutritious food right out in front of you kitchen door sound like a good idea in these turbulent times? A growing movement to reclaim, restore, and re-localize our relationship to food is happening all around us, and you can participate by re-thinking … More
Staff Writer
Waking Times
“How can we maximize hammock time?” - Bill Mullison, author of Permaculture: A Designers’ Manual
Permaculture affects every part of your life, from how you design your room, to how you design your life. It encompasses how people are able to get along and make living … More
Wayne Weiseman, Guest Writer
Waking Times
When a product enters the marketplace it is doomed to be bandied about, prodded, poked and eventually, if it is a “valuable” commodity, confiscated, manipulated, packaged, politicized, corporatized, chained to will-o’-the-wisp market forces and forever relegated to the dungeon of the landfill, what’s … More
Seyyada A. Burney, Nourishing the Planet
Waking Times
Soaring temperatures and low precipitation could not occur at a worse time for many farmers in the U.S.
Intensifying drought conditions are affecting corn and soybean crops throughout the Midwest, raising grain prices as well as concerns about future food prices. The … More
Havana, Cuba, is a world leader in urban agriculture. After the collapse of the Soviet Bloc, food production was decentralised from large mechanized state farms to urban cultivation systems. Today more than 50 per cent of Havana’s fresh produce is grown within the city limits, using organic compost … More
Homegrown Revolution is a short introduction to the homegrown project that has been called a new revolution in urban sustainability.
In the midst of a dense city setting in downtown Pasadena, radical change is taking root. For over twenty years, the Dervaes family have transformed their home … More
Open Source Plans for Modern Tesla Free Energy Generator Released to Public
Terence Newton, Staff Writer
Waking Times
In a world of problems and solutions, few ideas spur both immediate hope and skepticism as the idea of free energy, and, on the brink of ecological disaster, nothing may be of greater importance to the human race.
Vedanta – The Science of Self Discovery
Frank Huguenard, Staff Writer
Waking Times
At the heart of Hinduism is a spiritual and philosophical framework known as Vedanta. To understand the distinction between the two, it’s important to understand the origin of the word Hindu. When the first explorers from Persia traveled to India (then known as … More
10 Questions About the Pineal Gland That Add to the Mystery of Spirituality
Buck Rogers, Staff Writer
Waking Times
The pine cone shaped, pea-sized pineal gland, located in the center of the human brain, is an organ of tremendous interest these days. To many spiritual seekers it is the ‘seat of the soul‘ and the ‘third eye,’ the … More
5 Thought-Provoking Quantum Experiments Showing That Reality Is an Illusion
Anna LeMind, In5D Guest
Waking Times
No one in the world can fathom what quantum mechanics is, this is perhaps the most important thing you need to know about it. Granted, many physicists have learned to use its laws and even predict phenomena based on quantum calculations. But it is … More
Four Ways Nietzsche Made God His Bitch
Gary ‘Z’ McGee, Staff Writer
Waking Times
“We stumble on; the Übermensch plants a foot where there is no certain hold; and in the struggle that follows, the whole of us get dragged up.” –William James
Friedrich Nietzsche is a fascinating philosopher that must be taken with a … More
Beautiful Tales Unfolding And The Return Of The Light
Ida Lawrence, Contributor
Waking Times
Stories just unfold and unfold; hour by hour, the pages of our book are written. Some say we write those pages ourselves, including the seemingly ‘outside of our control’ experiences. Accidents, unwelcome circumstances, surprising opportunities, forgetting, missteps, chance meetings, world events, other people’s decisions, childhood … More
Open Source Plans for Modern Tesla Free Energy Generator Released to Public
Terence Newton, Staff Writer
Waking Times
In a world of problems and solutions, few ideas spur both immediate hope and skepticism as the idea of free energy, and, on the brink of ecological disaster, nothing may be of greater importance to the human race.
Neuroscientist Exposes Dangers of Electromagnetic Fields
Kevin Samson, Guest
Waking Times
Neuroscience has come under scrutiny for its involvement in an array of mind control initiatives and other ethically questionable research. But at least one neuroscientist from Sweden has gone on record to caution against the increasing dangers of Electromagnetic Fields (EMF) on human beings … More
Zen Gardner, Guest
Waking Times
I love the sound of construction. I always have. Not the industrial sound from the kind of massive, offensive structures made with other-worldly looking machines, but the intentional, gentle kind. Small structures going up, improvements on homes, road repairs, even tending to gardens whether … More
Are You Inadvertently Investing in Monsanto’s Toxic Legacy?
Brandon Baker, Eco Watch
Waking Times
Monsanto didn’t achieve $11.8 billion in sales and 404 facilities in 66 countries all on its own.
The company is valued at $60 billion in the marketplace with 525 million shares outstanding, but the three largest mutual fund shareholders, Vanguard, Fidelity and State Street, … More
7 Ways Our Children Are Being Brainwashed
Gregg Prescott, M.S., In5D Guest
Waking Times
From birth, virtually all of us have been brainwashed through various outlets that encourage materialism, ego, subservience, control and conformity. But where do the origins of mind control begin and what can we do about it?
1. Religion
As children, the brainwashing begins … More
The Truth About Fluoride Becoming More Widely Known
Dr. Mercola
Waking Times
Fluoride is a poisonous substance added to many municipal water supplies across the US, Canada, and elsewhere without the permission of the residents. Is there a model that communities can follow to remove it from their water supply? The short answer to this question is yes… More
6 Crimes Against Nature Perpetrated By The Food Industry
Martha Rosenberg, AlterNet
Waking Times
While many procedures on factory farms are cruel, breeding animals into mutants and violating mother/offspring bonds are truly crimes against nature.
The horrors of factory farming are multifold. Treating animals like heads of lettuce—”forget it’s an animal” says one farming magazine—has created institutionalized ruthlessness toward … More
Our Respective Journeys Into the Valley of Reason
Michael T. Winter, Contributor
Waking Times
The Internet awakening has given birth to a worldwide multitude of people that are disengaging from the programmed paradigm created for us, and awakening to the reality of the dangers we face. The web has supplied a platform for writers to take a crack … More
13 Ways Foodies Are Changing The Food Industry
Heather Callaghan & Jeffrey Green, Guests
Waking Times
A major shift in the consciousness of food consumers is forcing the industry into a competitive race to become more natural. The market is telling food producers that they no longer want so-called factory food because of its many harmful effects on … More
American Agriculture May Eradicate the Monarch Butterfly Unless Swift Action Is Taken
You may be aware that bees are dying in large numbers across the globe, courtesy of the ever-increasing presence of toxins in our environment. But did you know that the monarch butterfly is also becoming endangered, and for the same reason?
As reported by the New … More
