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• One Day in One City
  Today is a day of reflection. It is a unique phenomena for an enormous country have a focused, collective recall. We all remember a single moment from a million different perspectives.
  
  
• Bill McKibben and Moving Planet
  A lecture by Bill McKibben brings to light the triumphs and challanges of an evolving environmental movement.
  
  
• LoveATX Interdependence Fest
  The summer of love rides into July as we celebrate our interdependence with all the great people of Austin. Join the folks of the SHIRE at LoveATX Independence Fest this Sunday at the AMP (Austin Art + Music Partnership) warehouse in South Austin.
  
  
• The SHIRE rides North with Superheroes
  The Superheroes are on the move in Ames, Iowa, making headlines. Forget flying. With all the radiation in the air, they bike. In Austin, they made a big splash in the permaculture/ag-tivist/farmers market community and cultivated another Hero: the SHIRE's own Elizabeth Burke.
  
  
• Mesquite Bandages: Permaculture at Grackle Fest
  The second annual Grackle Fest was a blast. Great music, exciting workshops of yoga and dancing, and a fascinating talk about permaculture with Theron Beaudreau of the Community Cultivators. Gather round your screen and learn how mesquite can teach us how the damaged landscape of central Texas' blackland prairies is evolving.
  
  
• The SHIRE presents What's Your Step
  
  
• Natural Buildling, Natural Learning
  The SHIRE now has a functional tipi, decorated by KIPP's 8th graders, and is well into the construction of our community area's bunk house. Work on the gargantuan yurt continues. And we have new friends: the Community Cultivators at DeadEnd Homestead.
  
  
• Earthen Structures 200: Yurt, Tipi, Strawbale
  Build three distinct habitats over the course of a weekend. Build community while building a building. Build your confidence in sustainable construction techniques. Build knowledge of intercontinental design, from ancient Mongolia to modern America. Connect with your neighbors. Camp for a weekend. Create a dwelling.
  
  
• Biodiesel and Mycoremediation: Sustainability Workshop
  Wayne squeezed hard. The metal clamp squeaked as it oozed green juice that dropped down onto a device no bigger than my hand. Like a captain overlooking the bow of his ship, Wayne flipped a tiny glass plate over the juice and delicately brought the device to his eye, pointing it at the sun.
  
  
• Fuels and Filters 100: Applied Sustainability Technology
  A day of students, professionals and community members gathering to explore working models of sustainability and to implement sustainable systems
  
  
• Indigenous Landscaping Workshop
  Sunny skies and a warm southern breeze were an idyllic backdrop for the New SHIRE Institute's Indigenous Landscaping workshop at the Hundred Acre Wood. Bert Milling and Will Bryant of A to Zen Landscaping kick off the spring Sustainability Workshop Series.
  
  
• Sustainability Workshops: Horticulture 100 - Indigenous Landscaping
  
  
• HOPE Cob Workshop
  
  
• Full Circle Enterprise: You Can't Lie to a Horse
  My first experience as a horse trainer
  
  
• Wayne's Day at Branch Grove Farms
  It's Waynesday as the SHIREfolk go to Branch Grove Farm to help Certified Organic Farmer Wayne Lundgren sow nearly 2,000 transplants.
  
  
• Cob Workshop at HOPE Farmer's Market
  The SHIRE hosts its first workshop of 2011: Cob Building for Kids (of all ages), this weekend at the HOPE Farmer's Market
  
  
• The Circle of Life
  My first experience killing an animal.
  
  
• Bicycle SuperHeroes
  Up in the sky, it's a bird...it's a plane...it's, well...okay, that's a plane. And, over there, that's a bird. Look down to the ground and that's where you'll see this group of SuperHeroes working--masks, capes, and all the gear they need for a month-long bicycle trip of inspiring deeds around Texas, starting with the Hundred Acre Wood
  
  
• Frolick, O Frolick
  A wrap of the greatest party to take place in the history of the cosmos... until Gracklefest 2011!
  
  
• Fall Frolic
  Festival this weekend at the Hundred Acre Wood
  
  
• Leetle Comic
  Comic day!
  
  
• Outside Art, Outside
  Our eco area at Art Outside. It caught a bug-catcher!
  
  
• The SHIRE at Art Outside this weekend
  Art Outside takes Downtown Texas by storm!
  
  
• SHIRE Global Work Party 10/10/10
  On 10/10/10, the SHIRE gets to work on their natural buildling projects to celebrate 350.org's Global Work Party
  
  
• Fund for Fun!
  We need your help to continue doing what we're doing!
  
  
• Choosing Laughter
  Preparing to invade Washington, D.C., Patrick Reck shares why he's ready to Restore Sanity.
  
  
• The SHIRE goes to DC
  The biggest announcement since the one last week.
  
  
• Sustainability On The Road
  This has been the summer of the Eco-Hobo, living on the road without a place to call home, spreading the green gospel.
  
  
• The SHIRE Loves New York
  A look at America's biggest city from a sustainable consultant's perspective
  
  
• What is news? Electronic Global Youth Parade in Revolt
  We are living on the savage and disorienting precipice of the digital divide. The razor edge of a fulcrum point in the Information Revolution. We feel connected, but will media connection translate into cooperation that will overcome the problems of the 21st century?
  
  
• The Place I Want You To Visit
  In our quest to expand the SHIRE, intrepid adventurers P.Reck and Bright Sky find their way to a magical ecological forest in Northern New York
  
  
• Can We Trust the FDA?
  The FDA can raid a CSA at gunpoint, but can't even use decisive language when warning about dangerous antibiotics? Read about the FDA's extreme priorities.
  
  
• Monday Morning Satire
  
  
• What do we talk about when we talk about poo?
  What can we do to end the creation of so much waste? By solving the problem of a busted septic tank, how do we address the larger facets of sustainability?
  
  
• The Secret of Green
  The way we talk about our problems is just as important as identifying the problem itself. Right now, we've got a huge problem, and its name is Trash.
  
  
• The Working Companion
  Animals on a farm are essential to the sustainability of the land.
  
  
• Lose Your Lawn
  How did we become a nation of manicured, toxic lawns? How did a lowly perennial that imitates a carpet become our dominant ground cover?
  
  
• The Venus Project: part 2
  Imagine cities that improved the environment rather then destroying it. Jacque Fresco's amazingly articulated vision of a sustainable city that provides for the needs of all of its inhabitants.
  
  
• The Venus Project: part 1
  The Venus Project is part of a movement calling for the redesign of society. Founded byself-described futurist, Jacque Fresco his ideas involve "changing of all society so that all people [may] benefit from industry".
  
  
• I have great faith in a seed...
  When people hear the name Thoreau they think of the author of Walden and Civil Disobedience, a Transcendentalist writer whose works are loaded with metaphor and higher thought. How many people would associate him with the more scientific and methodical works of Darwin or other naturalists?