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Author Richard Heinberg’s The Party’s Over was a wake-up call in 2003, predicting the end of cheap oil (years before $4/gallon gas) and making a case for alternative energy. Despite the title, he’s not all gloom and doom. In fact, he has a brilliant vision for revitalizing rural areas.

Heinberg is the keynote speaker for the Live Green! Sustainability Series on Sept. 24: "Toward a Post Carbon Food

Flame skunks. They is a problem to most home owners, be all they don't know it though. Pesky little fellers, git in your basement and start feedin off the lint of most furnace filters. You can tell 'em by their plumpish skunk bodies, but they's head's just like a gas broiler with the flames all lit and lickin up the sides like whispy blue whiskery cheeks. Natural fire hazards. Burnt up a

"Go green, Fairfield!" Those were Mike Love's parting words at a press conference on Friday, August 14, during which Mayor Ed Malloy announced that Love will be annointed "Energy Czar for the Day"  at the upcoming Beach Boys concert in Fairfield, Iowa, on Labor Day, Sept. 7. The seed idea came from Love, who proposed naming Sept. 7  as "Energy Independence Day in Fairfield Iowa USA." Plans are in

The Arc of Jefferson County is launching raffle ticket sales for a queen-sized quilt made locally and donated to The Arc, to raise funds for camp for local and area individuals who are intellectually or otherwise developmentally disabled. The quilt design is “Log Cabin – Star,” machine stitched and quilted.

Tickets are $1 each or six for $5, sold through the last day of the County Fair at The Arc

When you have a big conceptual behemoth on a roll, gaining momentum for 60 years or so, it’s pretty hard to stop it. That’s our food system. We waste, we pollute, we overconsume. We subsidize some farmers to grow more food than we need—or food products we really don’t need, all the while importing other foodstuffs from thousands of miles away. I’m not pointing fingers here—I’d say we’re all in