Angelo Eliades

Maximum Unsustainability – The Worst Ways to Ride Your Bike

Riding a bike is a sustainable, green, eco-friendly transport option, right? Well, “it’s not what you do, it’s the way…

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Technological Utopianism – Why bad ideas cause very real environmental problems

“Nothing so obstinately stands in the way of all sorts of progress as pride of opinion. While nothing is so…

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Do People Really Care about the Environment?

“What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing…

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Permaculture, Politics and Solutions Thinking

“The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our…

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Urban Agriculture and Food Sovereignty

Urban agriculture (UA) in public spaces may have been the unloved child that mainstream western society abandoned in the 17th…

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Science, Technology and Permaculture – How much do you really need to know?

“The further one goes, the less one knows.” – Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching Permaculture has been around for over…

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The Problem with Urban Agriculture? – A Fact Based Rebuttal to a Landscape Architecture’s Misconceptions

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the later ignorance. Hippocrates The importance of…

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Understanding Urban Agriculture – Part 3, Calculating the Food Production Potential of a City

It has been well said that we do not see things as they are, but as we are ourselves. Every…

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Understanding Urban Agriculture – Part 2, Productivity, Potential and Possibilities

This is part two of a series of articles Angelo is writing, for part one please visit: https://permaculturenews.org/2016/10/05/understanding-urban-agriculture-part-1-present-state-historical-context/ People who…

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Understanding Urban Agriculture – Part 1, The Present State in Historical Context

This is part one of a series of articles Angelo is writing, for part two please visit: https://permaculturenews.org/2016/10/12/understanding-urban-agriculture-part-2-productivity-potential-possibilities/ You have…

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Entryism as a Threat to Stable Communities

In Nature, ecological communities are comprised of populations of two or more species that coexist in the same place at…

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Cities – Food Free Zones? The Creation of the Urban Food Desert

Have you ever wondered why our modern cities are intentionally designed to be food-free? All living things normally live in…

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