Food Shortages
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Compost & Soil Fertility – A Shitty Topic
by Patrick Blampied Wow, here’s a topic I could write more about than what I wrote in the About Me…
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Permaculture & Detroit’s Urban Agriculture Movement: What is Done, Not What is Said
A million thoughts are racing through my head as I prepare for my upcoming trip to Detroit to teach a…
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Indoor Vegetable Garden with Topsy Turvy Planters and Window Boxes
One cool product that I’ve had the pleasure of using is the Topsy Turvy Upside-Down Tomato Planter. (Note: I’ve since…
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Jawaseri School Garden Project, Jordan
Just as I was leaving Jordan, after making the Greening the Desert II update video, another little project was just…
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Resources for Herbs, Sprouts and Survival Foods
When Derrick, Isabell, and children Angela, Vicky and RIcky, shifted to Nambour in the hinterland of Queensland’s Sunshine Coast over…
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A Farming Model to Sustain the World
Ten years from now, in 2020, when we try to look back, Indian agriculture can be transformed into a healthy…
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Mounting Stresses, Failing States
by Lester R. Brown, Earth Policy Institute After a half-century of forming new states from former colonies and from the…
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Farmer Suicides and Bt Cotton Nightmare Unfolding in India
The largest wave of farmer suicides and an ecological nightmare are unfolding around Bt cotton. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho exposes the…
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U.S. Feeds One Quarter of its Grain to Cars While Hunger is on the Rise
by the Earth Policy Institute The 107 million tons of grain that went to U.S. ethanol distilleries in 2009 was…
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Capitalising on Haiti Tragedy?
We’re all gutted about the situation in Haiti. It is so immensely tragic, particularly in the face of all the…
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Jeff Rubin – $225 p/barrel Oil in 18 Months and the End of Globalisation
Jeff Rubin, former chief economist at CIBC World Markets and author of the book Why Your World Is About to…
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The Looming Food Crisis and the ‘Food 2030’ Report
It can’t go on like this…. Not long ago I was standing in a bookshop, minding my own business, when…
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