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The conspiracy which proves that manmade global warming is a scam
by George Monbiot: journalist, author, academic and environmental and political activist, United Kingdom
It’s no use pretending that this isn’t a major blow. The emails extracted by a hacker from the climatic research unit at the ...
Environment
People in the Poorest County in the U.S. Take on Permaculture
At Pine Ridge Lakota reservation in South Dakota, Bryan Dean’s cattle ranch embraces thousands of acres of tribal and private lands. One watershed on the range covers 3000 acres of rolling prairie hills and canyons – in heavy rains ...
Environment
South Dakota
Here's a worrying trend - people growing food in back yards! Whatever next!?
Stacey Murphy is obviously an enemy of all that is good in our consumption-oriented world. Almost certainly a deceptively slippery character, she positively oozes with dangerously contagious enthusiasm in this clip ...
Environment
by Janet Larsen, Earth Policy Institute
Future firefighters have their work cut out for them. Perhaps nowhere does this hit home harder than in Australia, where in early 2009 a persistent drought, high winds, and record high temperatures set the stage for the worst wildfire in the country’s ...
Environment
The small city of El Bolsón is located in the southwest of the Río Negro Province, right in the angle formed by the Andes Mountain Range and the 42nd parallel (provincial border with Chubut).
It is a place known internationally by its people and its wonderful natural beauty. People from ...
Environment
Argentina
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Birds eye view of the Virgin Island Sustainable
Farm Institute St. Croix, a 6 x 20 mile...
island in the Caribbean, is exploding with positive action. Led by the Virgin Island Sustainable Farm Institute, locally grown food and ecological agriculture are seeding in with island people and travelers ...
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Permaculture Seeds Sprouting on St. Croix
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Joel Salatin runs one of the best examples of a fully functional & productive sustainable farming operation found anywhere in the United States at Polyface Farms. It may not fit the precise permaculture mold, but it does demonstrate what's possible without the use of expensive and destructive ...
Environment
We are having a Permablitz this weekend here on the Gold Coast, below are the details.
Event: Permablitz Gold Coast
Date: Saturday 21st November
Time: 9am onwards
Venue: Ingleside State School, 893 Tallebudgera Creek Road, Tallebudgera Valley QLD (15 minutes drive from Burleigh Heads Beach).
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Environment
Greening the Desert II - Greening the Middle East (Duration: 35 mins)
If you haven't already, to understand this latest video,
please be sure to watch the original 5-minute ...
Environment
It’s probably too late to prepare for peak oil, but we can at least try to salvage food production.
by George Monbiot: journalist, author, academic and environmental and political activist, United Kingdom
I don’t know when global oil supplies will start to decline. I do know that another ...
Environment
Regular readers will have noted a couple of posts - here and here - covering the new and developing Mullumbimby Community Gardens project underway not so far from Zaytuna Farm (about half an hour east, if travelling by car, or a day's ride on horseback).
Readers of those posts will ...
Environment
That comment use to cross my mind, but luckily I got over it.
I completed my PDC in January '09 with Geoff at Zaytuna farm, along with a lovely range of fellow students from the far reaches of the globe. I sincerely hope they also post stories to share ...
Environment
George Will
The IEA's latest report is released, just as two of their senior staff blow whistle on predictions
The International Energy Agency, who annually produce their World Energy Outlook (WEO) report, have just done so yet again - you can read their executive summary of the 2009 edition here (PDF).
The ...
Environment
Colbert Report
Energy Efficiency
China
An urban hideaway managed by Cam, Jesse and Yarrow Wilson
(Yarrow was taking a break for this shot)
All photographs © Craig Mackintosh
On my recent trip to the Bill Mollison/Geoff Lawton course in Melbourne, that I forced myself to miss so I could go on site visits in the area, ...
Environment
Photographs © Craig Mackintosh
Inter-row Eucalyptus saligna (Sydney blue
gum) & Casuarina cunninghamiana
(river she oak) planted in 2000
I recently had opportunity to visit a Permaculture site called ...
Environment
by Lester R. Brown, Earth Policy Institute
Our early twenty-first century civilization is being squeezed between advancing deserts and rising seas. Measured by the biologically productive land area that can support human habitation, the earth is shrinking. Mounting population densities, once ...
Environment
October 30 – November 1, 2009
Orella Ranch, Gaviota Coast, California.
A wise person once said that soil is not only more complex than we know, it is more complex than we can ever know! The good news is humans have lately achieved a level of practically applicable ...
Environment
Food Shortage
Those that read and enjoyed such posts as The Crash Course and Money as Debt will understand the significance of, and not be surprised by, the Federal Reserve (now former) chairman clearly stating that the Federal Reserve is a private agency, above the law, above the president and should not ...
Environment
An 'ethical travel agent', the Independent tells us today, goes ethical, deciding that getting customers to pay a little extra to 'offset' their damage to the environment is really just a way to help people feel better about persevering with their destructive lifestyles - in other words, just a ...
Environment
In this talk Jesse from PRI Canada explains the benefits of taking a PDC course and receiving a Permaculture Design Certificate, the primary course offered by Permaculture Research Institutes around the globe.
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