Soil Erosion & Contamination
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Hope for a New Era: Before/After Examples of Permaculture Earth Restoration – Solving Our Problems From the Ground Up
If you aren’t in a reading mood, and/or just came to look at the before/after photographs, click here to jump…
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Two Views of Our Future
by Lester R. Brown, Earth Policy Institute No previous civilization has survived the ongoing destruction of its natural supports. Nor…
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End of an Era
So now what do we do to defend life on Earth? by George Monbiot: journalist, author, academic and environmental and…
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How “Sustainability” Became “Sustained Growth”
Editor’s Preamble: In a prevous editorial life, I used to make a decent attempt at commentary for these large international…
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The Mendacity of Hope
The summits which promise to save the world keep us dangling, not mobilising. by George Monbiot: journalist, author, academic and…
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Coal Seam Gas – Music to Soothe the Mining Beast (28-30 June, 2012)
Editor’s Note: If you’re in the Northern Rivers area of NSW, Australia (or if you can otherwise make it!), please…
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What Will Rio+20 Bring?
In a few days the international community will be meeting in Rio de Janeiro, to hold the most significant environmental…
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Myth of Perpetual Growth is Killing America
Editor’s preamble: It’s refreshing and even somewhat reassuring when a major stock market website runs an article like the one…
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Perennial Plants and Permaculture
Currently, approximately 80% of the food crops grown in the world are annual plants, and it’s been this way for…
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Ted Trainer and the Simpler Way
Editor’s Note: To follow, I think, is a very important look at Ted Trainer’s work — one that broaches an…
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John D. Liu’s Green Gold Documentary – How the West (and East, North and South!) Could Be Won
As most of our readers will know, John D. Liu caught a vision years ago, and, thankfully, he ran with…
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The Pending Collapse of Western Australia’s Breadbasket?
In our travels to Tom’s old stomping grounds, we were shocked to find WA’s breadbasket degraded, eroded and overtaxed. by…
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