Desertification
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Peak Water: What Happens When the Wells Go Dry?
by Lester R. Brown, Earth Policy Institute Peak oil has generated headlines in recent years, but the real threat to…
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Climate Change Adaptation Technologies – Permaculture Design Brings Results
//www.youtube.com/embed/RQkiv_U5AoU Climate Change Adaptation technology: Stone Lines (The Sahel)(More videos below) It’s uber exciting to see simple design solutions bringing…
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China’s Growing Hunger for Meat Shown by Move to Buy Smithfield, World’s Leading Pork Producer
by Janet Larsen, Earth Policy Institute Half the world’s pigs—more than 470 million of them—live in China, but even that…
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Genetically Modified Crops and Hunger – Another Look at the Evidence
Genetically modified crops are hailed by their proponents as the basis for a “new green revolution”, and as the key…
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Forests Keep Drylands Working (John D. Liu video)
John D. Liu of the EEMP, who has partnered with us in spreading the permaculture message, has created yet another…
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Allan Savory: How to Green the World’s Deserts and Reverse Climate Change (TED video)
I have been waiting so long for Allan to get on Ted Talks! Now, here it is. Prepared to have…
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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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Expanding Dust Bowls Worsening Food Prospects in China and Africa
by Janet Larsen, Earth Policy Institute Encroaching Gobi desert When most people hear the term “dust bowl,” they think of…
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Line in the Sand (Video)
We often only begin to understand the importance of nutrient- and water-cycling when they don’t — when they don’t cycle,…
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