In case you missed it live this weekend, Sandor Ellix Katz, author of The Art of Fermentation was featured on the fun, informative food and cooking show The Splendid Table.

Hop on over to The Splendid Table's website where you can listen to the show.

The site is also featuring a tasty excerpt from the new book, The Art of Fermentation, on brewing your own kombucha. Is it a cure-all wonder drink, or a potentially noxious blend of scary fungi? Sandor explains it all in the excerpt, but if ...

The problems of peak oil and climate change are complex, global, and impossibly daunting. It's easy to take a long, hard look at them and quickly throw your hands up in despair over ever finding a solution that will help our species avoid the disruption of our post-industrial way of life, and some sort of catastrophic decline at the point resources become critically scarce.

Back in 2008, Rob Hopkins wrote a little book about one way to do it -- to look at the problem dead on and find a way around it.

If you're just starting out with growing fruit trees, you'll want to get the best advice possible early on, to avoid traumatizing your trees or making easy mistakes that can cause you a headache later on.

The following videos show Michael Phillips, author of The Holistic Orchard: Tree Fruits and Berries the Biological Way and The Apple Grower: A Guide for the Organic Orchardist, in his Lost Nation Orchard in northern New Hampshire. Michael shares with us his growing philosophy and his holistic approach to orchard management.

Taking a whole-systems approach ...

There's a special month, day, or commemorative week for just about everything. Eventually, if things go the way they are now, each and every day of the calendar year will be dedicated to some kind of celebration. A misanthrope like me simply doesn't know what to say about this phenomenon. My natural pessimism and sense of the absurd are piqued endlessly when I look at lists of "special" holidays.

I mean, really culture? Do we need a special day to celebrate sporks (granted, this holiday may be fictitious)? Do we really care so ...

From TED.

In this intimate talk filmed at TED's offices, energy theorist Amory Lovins lays out the steps we must take to end the world's dependence on oil (before we run out). Some changes are already happening—like lighter-weight cars and smarter trucks—but some require a bigger vision. In his latest book, Reinventing Fire, Amory Lovins shares ingenious ideas for the next era of energy.

Reinventing Fire was written by Lovins and Rocky Mountain Institute's many other experts. It outlines numerous ways in which industry—not ...

If you're a permaculture practitioner, you may know Paul Wheaton as the genius and webmaster behind the forums at permies.com—a fantastic resource if you've never checked them out. In the forums you can ask questions of other permaculture fans, troubleshoot your garden or fish pond, and learn about new techniques.

Over recent months Paul has been leading listeners of his podcast through our recently published book, Sepp Holzer's Permaculture.

Sepp Holzer is a farmer, author and international consultant for natural agriculture. His farm, high in the mountains of Austria, now ...

The New York Times Sunday Book Review features — on its cover no less — a glowing review of Madeleine M. Kunin's forthcoming title The New Feminist Agenda: Defining the Next Revolution for Women, Work, and Family.

Judith Warner's review of Kunin's book is juxtaposed against the new book by Elisabeth Badinter, The Conflict: How Modern Motherhood Undermines the Status of Women. One book is "right" and the other is "wrong," and we're pleased to report that Kunin's book is the right one.

"[W]hereas Badin­ter’s argument is ...