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Are You Sure You Want a Fossil-Free Future?

Let’s get real. Climate change is the crisis of our lives, and it’s not subtle. Wildfires, floods, heat waves, and politics that make your head spin like a wind turbine gone rogue. It’s all happening....

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December 6, 2025 at 3:42 AM

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The Great Rat War: A Four-Year Saga

I would like the record to show that I did not start this war. I did not provoke it. I did not taunt anyone’s mother. I did not invade foreign soil.

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November 15, 2025 at 5:56 PM

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3 sleeps until I leave for my annual mushroom foraging trip.

October 13, 2025 at 2:31 PM

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The Wild Pantry

It’s that time again—when the air smells like rain, the forest floor squishes underfoot, and I start talking to mushrooms like old friends I haven’t seen since last fall. I’m heading to the west coast...

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October 13, 2025 at 2:13 PM

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My latest blog on Bubbles and why the stock market doesn't make sense
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Why the Stock Market’s Partying While the World’s on Fire

I don’t know about you, but when I look around, it feels like we’re living in a permanent state of global “brace for impact.”

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October 4, 2025 at 2:12 PM

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Lazy Permaculturist?

If you’ve ever stared at your withered tomato plant in August and thought, “Wow, if only plants could send me text reminders like my dentist does,” then congratulations — you might be a lazy permacult...

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September 28, 2025 at 3:56 PM

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Canada vs Finland: National Resilience

Finland is at it again, quietly outshining the rest of us in the "how to survive the apocalypse without breaking a sweat" department. According to a recent article by Miika Ilomäki, the Finns have tak...

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September 23, 2025 at 11:07 PM

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Holy Smoke!

Yesterday I had a fire in my house, leaving extensive smoke damage that means I’ll be out for a couple of months. The furniture can be replaced. The walls can be rebuilt. The “stuff”… well, stuff is ...

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September 15, 2025 at 1:27 PM

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Stronger Together

Here’s a little secret about sustainable living: no matter how many beans you’ve squirreled away or how epic your rain barrel collection is, you can’t actually prepare for turbulence alone. I mean, yo...

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September 13, 2025 at 12:54 PM

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Are We Living in a Simulation? Maybe We Can Win the Game.

Lately, I’ve been chewing on this idea called simulation theory. Sounds like science fiction, right? But it’s actually a real philosophical question: What if the reality we live in isn’t real?

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September 8, 2025 at 12:50 AM

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Beans, Rain Barrels, and the Courage to Breathe

When most people think about “resilience,” they picture stockpiles of beans, water filters, and a suspiciously large collection of mason jars. Don’t get me wrong — I love my jars. But here’s the thing...

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September 2, 2025 at 1:17 PM

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Stop Waging War on Your Yard and Start Co-Conspiring With it.

If you’ve ever looked at your garden and thought, “Why does this feel like a full-time job I don’t remember applying for?”, then welcome to permaculture, the art of getting plants, critters, and human...

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August 28, 2025 at 12:57 PM

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It's that time of year again...

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Foraging: The Original Treasure Hunt

Foraging, to me, is like playing nature’s version of “Where’s Waldo?”—except instead of a bespectacled cartoon man in stripes, I’m hunting for edible mushrooms that always seem to be hiding in plain s...

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August 23, 2025 at 1:27 PM

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Lettuce Deserves Better Than Snow

There comes a point in every gardener’s life — usually around November, when you’re chipping kale out of the ground with a screwdriver — that you start thinking, “Maybe I need a greenhouse.”

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August 18, 2025 at 2:58 PM

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Why Good People Must Use AI

I just listened to a podcast episode of The Diary of a CEO, where ex-Google executive Mo Gawdat was talking about artificial intelligence—how it’s set to disrupt everything from careers to consciousne...

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August 7, 2025 at 3:57 AM

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I don't usually write a blog post twice in one week, but I process information by writing, and I had to process this...you may want to too. globalvillagepermaculture.ca/blog/f/why-g...

Why Good People Must Use AI

I just listened to a podcast episode of The Diary of a CEO, where ex-Google executive Mo Gawdat was talking about artificial intelligence—how it’s set to disrupt everything from careers to consciousne...

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August 7, 2025 at 3:56 AM

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Every day for the past week I have picked an enormous bowl full of blackberries...and there is no end to what is left on the vines! What's more is each berry is absolutely massive. Blackberry jam, blackberry compote, dried blackberries, frozen blackberries, blackberry jambalaya...