Carnival of the Green #15

The latest Carnival is posted at Hip-and-Zen Pen, blog of the lovely Hip and Zen store site. It's a mix of green shopping ideas, articles on climate change and our future, food and farming, the usual Green potpourri of serious and quirky. I must confess I was quite intrigued by the greener side's post on "green sex toys," and hope it will be continued as promised. But my favorite entry in this week's Carnival is Baloghblog's piece recounting his lengthy struggle through stages of thought on the subject of a post-Peak Oil future: Beyond Panic, Peak Oil Revisited. If you lie awake planning your survival strategies (as I admit to doing sometimes), read this. It's not chicken soup for the frightened Peak Oil Planner, but it is a glimpse of a more hopeful survival. If you only have time for one ride on this week's Carnival, I suggest that post.

And, tell me - have you missed me? Just back last night from our trip to close on our new home in the Land of Enchantment. Flying into and out of Albuquerque over the desert and the mountains is still such an adventure for me. Here on the Mid-Atlantic coast I've never grown tired of the water, the abundance of it and the life it sustains. I think in the same way I won't ever tire of the vastness of the high desert, the mountains, and their more hidden life-forms. A new chapter opens, and I'm looking forward to learning how to live it.