transitionculture.org - 2/16/2009
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Geoff Lawton is a permaculturist’s permaculturist. As one of the first ‘wave’ of designers and teachers in Australia, he has been implementing and thinking about permaculture for many years, and has become internationally recognised as a repairer of landscapes, and a creator, even in the most ...
realclimate.org - 2/22/2009
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realclimate.org —
Guest commentary by David Karoly , Professor of
Meteorology at the University of Melbourne in Australia On
Saturday 7 February 2009, Australia experienced its worst natural disaster in more than 100 years, when catastrophic bushfires killed more ...
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Bushfires and extreme heat in south-east Australia
online.wsj.com - 2/18/2009
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Wall Street Journal: The wildfires that have so
far claimed more than 170 lives in Australia highlight
the vulnerabilities in countries where populations are spilling into rural areas already under stress from sometimes extreme weather conditions. ...
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Australia fires point to risks of shifting population
features.csmonitor.com - 2/16/2009
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The deadly wildfires that tore across southeastern Australia
this past week have prompted some experts to look
beyond the arsonists, lightning strikes, and carelessly discarded cigarette butts to a more complex culprit: climate change. While all ...
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Is global warming driving Australia’s bushfires?
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Solutions & sustainability - Feb 16
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Click on the headline (link) for the full text. Many more articles are available through the Energy Bulletin homepage ‘Eat The Suburbs’: a great short film on permablitzing Rob Hopkins, Transition Culture Here is a great film from Australia about ‘permablitzing’, and about edible backgardening. It features Asha Bee, who is currently working here with Transition Network doing a book about Transition in cities. Enjoy. [YOUTUBE] You can download a hi-res version for screenings in your local initiative here . (10 February 2009) Energy Bulletin founder Adam Grubb has been active in permablitzing. He describes it at Eat the Suburbs . Film Review: “Establishing a Food ...
Food Forest DVD Gets Rave Review
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Food Forest DVD Gets Rave Review DVDs/Books , Food Forests , Food Plants - Perennial , Plant Systems , Trees — by Craig Mackintosh [image] If you’ve been procrastinating over buying our latest DVD - Establishing a Food Forest - this review from TransitionCulture.org may help hurry you along. These DVDs have been selling briskly - it’s great to think of the potential impact they’ll be making far and wide. Order your copy here . No Comments No comments yet. RSS feed for comments on this post. Leave a comment Name (required) Mail (will not be published) (required) Website Notify me of follow-up comments via ...
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