Deforestation
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John D. Liu’s Green Gold Documentary – How the West (and East, North and South!) Could Be Won
As most of our readers will know, John D. Liu caught a vision years ago, and, thankfully, he ran with…
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Meat Consumption in China Now Double that in the United States
by Janet Larson, Earth Policy Institute More than a quarter of all the meat produced worldwide is now eaten in…
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Mythologists of the Glen
A report on deer in the Scottish Highlands is a sycophantic paean to Balmorality and landed power. by George Monbiot:…
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Stabilizing the Climate with “Permanent Agriculture”
Trees are one of our most powerful tools to pull carbon from the atmosphere and sequester it in the soil…
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Regenerating Rusinga (Kenya)
FMNR workshop, Feb 2012, Kenya Rusinga Island is situated in Lake Victoria in the Western parts of Kenya. It is…
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The Fight of the Century
As economies contract, a global popular uprising confronts power elites over access to the essentials of human existence. What are…
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The Big Green Question
Is environmentalism compatible with social justice? by George Monbiot: journalist, author, academic and environmental and political activist, United Kingdom. It…
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2nd National Sustainable Food Summit, Sydney, Australia (April 2012)
Editor’s Note: I would encourage all well-spoken permaculturists who can make it to Sydney for this event to go along…
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Food Forests, Part 2: Looking for Clues
Click for larger view As people become urbanised, they start looking at the world in urban ways. What does that…
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Permaculture in Damaged Lands: Degradation and Restoration in New Mexico
A certain coal-strewn road in Madrid, New Mexico — the remnants of a now defunct railway. Alternately barren and spectacular,…
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The Jean Pain Way
In the book Another Kind of Garden, the methods of Jean Pain are revealed. He spent his entire short-lived life…
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