Deforestation
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China’s Rising Soybean Consumption Reshaping Western Agriculture
by Lester R. Brown, Earth Policy Institute Where was once pristine Amazon rainforest, soybean harvesters march across the landscape instead…
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Food MythBusters – Do We Really Need Industrial Agriculture to Feed the World? (video)
Further Reading: A Farm for the Future (BBC video) The Rodale Institute’s 30-Year Farming Systems Trial Report Biodiverse Systems are…
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Annus Horribilis
2012 was the worst year for the environment in living memory. by George Monbiot It was the year of living…
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Permaculture Forest Garden, Badagry, Lagos State, Nigeria
Since 2011 the Adunni Susanne Wenger Foundation in Nigeria, in Cooperation with the German NGO SONED Brandenburg e.V., built up…
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Flow – For the Love of Water (Documentary)
https://youtube.com/watch?v=zmWdco0glEA As permaculturists, we have a great many solutions for the water crisis. From water harvesting to reed bed grey…
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Let’s Talk About Soil
Further Reading: Soil – Our Financial Institution The Story of Soil
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Rwanda – Emerging in a Changing Climate (video)
Filmmaker and environmentalist, John D. Liu from the Environmental Education Media Project team, takes us to Rwanda again (last time…
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Finding Sustainability in Ecosystem Restoration
Before (below) and after (above), Loess Plateau Watershed Rehabiliation Project A Breakthough of Worldwide Importance In 1995, as the Chinese…
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Nature Resilience – Organizing Ecological Restoration by Partners in Business for Next Generations
I was recently invited to contribute to a concept paper (2.2mb PDF) authored and edited by Willem Ferwerda. Mr. Ferwerda,…
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Tony Lovell on Soil Carbon: Putting Carbon Back Where It Belongs – In the Earth (TEDx video)
I love the nice progression of logic in this presentation. Running the numbers like this shows not only how powerful…
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A 50,000-Foot View of the Global Crisis
We are now well into a global crisis that may mark the end of this cycle of human civilization. In…
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A Timorese Forest Struggle
Editor’s preamble: Unfortunately, the kind of story told below is being played out on a daily basis, worldwide. Most of…
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