Village Development
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In Transition – the Movie
In Transition 1.0: from oil dependence to local resilience, available now! The title says it all. Sit back and enjoy…
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An Urban Gardener Feeds a Community
Bronwyn’s urban backyard is teeming with diversity. It is providing local families with nutritious food through her Community Supported Agriculture…
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How to Repair the World
The video embedded in this page spotlights the excellent work of Willie Smits I profiled a little while ago, where…
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Letters from Sri Lanka – the Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement and the ‘Third Way’
Part III of a series – If you haven’t already, please read Part I and Part II before continuing. This…
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The Localization of Agriculture
by Lester R. Brown, Earth Policy Institute In the United States, there has been a surge of interest in eating…
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Letters from Sri Lanka – The Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement, and the Ten Basic Needs
Part II of a series – If you haven’t already, read Part I before continuing. What do we really need?…
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Letters from Sri Lanka – Does Sarvodaya Hold the Secrets to Systemic Change?
Note: Despite the title’s preamble, I’m no longer actually in Sri Lanka. Over the next weeks I’ll be writing a…
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The ‘Sustainable (R)evolution’ Book Project
Have you ever wished, when explaining to someone about permaculture, you had a visual, easily accessible book that demonstrated what…
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Osama Bin Lowrider: It’s All the Same Culture
Our political discussions and media coverage are far too shallow to be useful. We must go deeper and much further…
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Maldivian Homegardens – A stable farming system in a fragile environment
PIJ #58, Mar – May 1996 By Dr Danny Hunter Editor’s Note: This decade-old article spotlights local indigenous knowledge found…
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Community-Based Rainforest Restoration Work is Huge Success in Borneo
In his twenty minute talk, Willie Smits (a Dutch forestry scientist who emigrated to Indonesia 20 years ago to help…
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