Why Permaculture?
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Gardening Bliss
A spoonful of happiness? Need cheering up after my last article? Keep reading…. There may be more to post-gardening joyfulness…
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Heading into a Perpetual Recession
Last year I drew a stark charcoal outline around what I saw would be our future over the next few…
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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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Quail Springs Seek to Get Sustainability Legalised
The dried up bed of the New Cuyama River, a few miles from Quail Springs, evidences the impact of the…
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Desperate Times Call for Desperate Measures?
I just read how certain scientists are now describing geo-engineering options as ‘feasible‘. Sigh. As it has become increasingly obvious…
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Throwing Out the Throwaway Economy
by Lester R. Brown, Earth Policy Institute Piles of rubbish, and an incredible stench, border a main market street in…
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Not Even Wrong
We need a radical new approach to cutting greenhouse gases, and it might have arrived. by George Monbiot: journalist, author,…
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In the Transition to Self-sufficiency, Suburban Food Gardens Have a Role to Play
In all my 25 years gardening and landscaping, I’ve never seen anything like the interest in food gardening of the…
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Should We Seek to Save Industrial Civilisation?
A debate with Paul Kingsnorth Dear George, Sitting on the desk in front of me are a set of graphs.…
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A Civilisational Tipping Point
by Lester R. Brown, Earth Policy Institute In recent years there has been a growing concern over thresholds or tipping…
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Tesco-opted
The fight against the superstores is a struggle for democracy by George Monbiot: journalist, author, academic and environmental and political…
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