Why Permaculture?
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The Accidental Tuberist
Bringing food back to the ‘burbs, one spud at a time The local small town shopping centre; A great place…
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Can We Feed Ourselves in a Post Peak Oil World?
At the end of 2007, the UK’s Simon Fairlie released what is essentially an update to figures produced back in…
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Six Ways to Save the Planet with Mushrooms – Paul Stamets
No, we’re not talking about your average portobello mushroom here, found on pizzas the world over. The topic of this…
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Travelling Light
Editor’s Note: With a solar powered blimp on the cards, I thought we’d visit the whole airship potential…. Is the…
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Life at Zaytuna – Why Work When You Can Fish?
Note for American readers: Exchange the word ‘dam’ in this post for ‘pond-that’s-formed-by-a-dam-wall’, and you’ll get what we antipodeans mean…
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Convert Your Eco-Unfriendly Swimming Pool into a Biologically Active and Attractive Fish Farm!
Could converting swimming pools into fish ponds be another way to increase food security as we head out onto peak…
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GM Crops – Failure to Yield Report
Seeking a technological food fix for world hunger may be… the most commercially malevolent wild goose chase of the new…
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Permaculture Food Gardening Course – July 2009
Geoff discusses soil structure and biology with students Gardening is increasingly popular now as food and job security are becoming…
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The Roots of Change – in Ourselves, or Government and Industry?
“The American Frankenstein” I could very much relate to an article I read today, albeit with some reservations: WOULD ANY…
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Our Moral Dilemma: Because We Don’t Live on an Inflatable Earth
The Group of Eight members have just decreed we should limit global average temperatures to no more than 2°C above…
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Carbon Offsetting – Is it Cheating?
A couple of years ago I discovered a site called cheatneutral.com. I thought I’d share it with you today in…
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Subsidising the Climate Crash
Why have government agencies been paying to increase the number of flights? by George Monbiot: journalist, author, academic and environmental…
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