Links for 9/6/11

Japanese pay top dollar for Ellensburg's timothy hay (Seattle Times) Hay is not a particularly valuable commodity considering its bulk. In net energy terms, it is hard to see how this makes any sense, and it certainly doesn't make sense for Cascadia as we work toward re-localization. Also, it is apparently a Sore topic for horse owners.

A place of their own for homeless families in Central Seattle (Seattle Times)

Families make up the fastest-growing segment of homeless people in King County. There were 10,695 homeless families in Washington state last year, according to the Washington Low-Income Housing Alliance.

In response, Catholic Housing Services this spring opened Monica's Village Place I, a new, $17 million, low-income apartment building in Seattle's Central District. Fifty families, including Burgess-Price and her three kids, live there. Seventy more families are on the waiting list.

Coming Round The Dark Mountain Part 1: Uncivilisation (Transition Norwich)

Coming Round The Dark Mountain Part 2: the Shaman and the Village (Transition Norwich, h/t Energy Bulletin)

Vermont Flood Hi-Res Gallery - August 2011 (h/t Naked Capitalism)

Inter-generational conflict and moral panic (thenextwave)

Germans oppose bailout boost, critical of Merkel: poll (Reuters, h/t Mish)

Postal Service Is Nearing Default as Losses Mount (New York Times)

A Banking Crisis Unlike the Last One (Wall Street Journal)