Topics

Here’s all the fascinating stuff you can find on this website …

Here are the details, and links to help you find it …

Land, Nature & Gardens

Gardens

• Abundant Harvests garden info
• Vegetable gardening
• Edible landscaping
• Garden design
• Urban agriculture
• Soil building ; Soil building resource list (featured post)
• crop rotation ; Vegetable Crop Rotation Wheel
• VegGarden365 – What to plant when in Southern California – app
• The Art of the Edible Landscape – resource page for a course I used to teach
• Secrets of Soil Building – ebook
• Food from a Flowerpot – ebook
• The Quest for Higher Yields – ebook

Wildlife

• Backyard wildlife habitats (featured post)
• Which milkweed should I plant in Southern California (featured post)
• more posts about wildlife

Land

• posts about land use
• When you don’t have any Land – booklet
• Your Community Garden: Tips for success – booklet

Water

• Multi-year drought, megadrought, or aridification (featured post)
• Water saving
• Greywater
• Rainwater harvesting
• Water wisdom
• Water Wisdom for High-Yield Gardens – booklet

Buildings & Transport

• Build your own solar cooker (featured post)
• 8 Things you can do for Summer Heat (featured post)
• Powerdown
• The Cob Oven project
• more posts about buildings & our built environment

Stuff

• Biocapacity (featured post)
• Rethink Waste (featured post)
• Greener gifting (featured post)
• more posts about Stuff

Culture & Education

• 6 Things you can do now about global warming (featured post)
• Greener or Greenwashing – free online mini-course (jumps to my page at Podia platform)
• Climate solutions
• Climate action
• Creating social change
• Teaching powerdown
• Resilience
• Permaculture
• Legacy: A Story of Hope – novel
• Ecopoetry by J. Maak
• Themed series:
  • What We Can Do series – public version of a college course I teach
  • ClimateSolvr – lifestyle tips specifically to reduce your carbon emissions
  • EnviroTips – tips for greening your lifestyle

Well-being

• Coping (featured post)
• How to create your own Good News feed (featured post)
• more posts about Well-being

Money

• Economic resilience
• Divestment from fossil fuels
• Economic contraction
• Economic scenarios
• Economic solutions
• 10 Practical Tools for a Resilient Economy – book

Community

• 6 Things Your Group Can Do – info sheet
• Creating social change
• Your Community Garden: Tips for success – booklet
• Environmental Change-Making – book

Environmental Change-Makers community group in Westchester/Los Angeles:

• Environmental Change-Makers community
• Gardens we built:
  • Community Garden at Holy Nativity
  • Emerson Avenue Community Garden (links to their site)
• Westchester Community Oven
• Transition Towns movement
• Subscribe to the Environmental Change-Makers’ mailing list

Food

• Gluten-free options for a wood fired oven (featured post)
• Why we grow food – info sheet
• Edible landscaping
• more posts about food

Since I’ve been writing blog posts since 2005, it adds up to quite a bit!