Soil Erosion & Contamination
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Addressing the Causes of Land Degradation, Food/Nutritional Insecurity and Poverty: a New Approach to Agricultural Intensification in the Tropics and Subtropics
by Roger RB Leakey, Agroforestry and Novel Crops Unit, School of Marine and Tropical Biology, James Cook University, Cairns, Australia.…
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UNCCD Land for Life Award Winners for 2013 (India, Mexico, Africa): Practical, Doable, Magic
Educating small-holder farmers in India Every year the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) presents awards and supportive prize-money…
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How Microbes Influence our Minds
We think of ourselves as autonomous individuals with a will of our own, but microbes in our gut turn out…
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A Festival of Toxic Waste
How about building bonfires without the old sofas and painted boards? by George Monbiot “Bonfire Night Kills Whales” is the…
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Mohamed Hijri: A Simple Solution to the Coming Phosphorus Crisis (video)
Biologist Mohamed Hijri brings to light a farming crisis no one is talking about: We are running out of phosphorus,…
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Breach of Trust
Ill-informed and incoherent: the head of the National Trust talks nonsense on fracking. by George Monbiot “It’s not for me…
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Pseudo-grains for Lesotho – Permaculture Design for Disaster
Quinoa This year’s very dry autumn, winter and spring in Lesotho is ringing alarm bells throughout the country. The capital…
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Free Online 3-Day GMO Summit (October 25-27, 2013): Register Today!
The scary truth about Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) is being deliberately kept from you…. Fact: Your food has been unnaturally…
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The World Must Take Charge at Fukushima
Massive leakages of heavily contaminated water, crumbling structures, and spent fuels that if exposed to air could release 85 times…
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Surviving Global Warming – Localized Food & Energy Systems in Nature’s Circular Economy
Record-breaking heat waves destroying harvests and worse predicted, localized food and energy systems urgently needed if we are to survive.…
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Chalback Reg-Op Lesotho
Chalback Reg-Op Lesotho is the story about a sustainable farming system suitable for Lesotho and other similar regions of southern…
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Apple Turnover
Apple offers 21st Century technology – with 19th Century ethics. Bangka Island (Source) Are you excited by the launch of…
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