Village Development
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Local Spotlight: But Don’t We Need Economic Growth to Lift the Poor Out of Poverty? (Ghana)
This article was originally published on the Post Growth Institute Website. Farmers planting nitrogen fixing trees on their farms As…
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Permaculture Forest Garden, Badagry, Lagos State, Nigeria
Since 2011 the Adunni Susanne Wenger Foundation in Nigeria, in Cooperation with the German NGO SONED Brandenburg e.V., built up…
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Thoughts on Vocational Training Centers for Ecological Restoration
John D. Liu I’m often asked “What can I do to help?” to restore the Earth. Over the years I’ve…
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Permaculture Meets Mozambique
In an isolated corner of northern Mozambique great things are being done. A demonstration farm run by the Manda Wilderness…
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Letters from Ladakh – Culture Demolition in Fast Forward
Editor’s Preamble: Despite the title, I’m no longer in Ladakh. Indeed, it was way back in August 2009 when I…
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The Radical Technology of Christopher Alexander
By Michael Mehaffy and Nikos Salingaros. First published in Metropolis Magazine. Though overshadowed by his written work, Alexander’s built work…
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The Sufficiency Economy – Envisioning a Prosperous Way Down
Editor’s Preamble: I would exhort readers to ignore the potentially off-putting length of this piece, to instead step into, and…
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So Where Does the ‘Appropriate’ in ‘Appropriate Technology’ Come From?
by Bob Corker and Tim Barker, PRI New Zealand (Koanga Institute) So where does the ‘appropriate’ in ‘Appropriate Technology’ come…
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The Global Movement that Barack Obama Isn’t Leading
A lot of people look to Barack Obama as the enlightened leader, the psychopomp who will lead the world away…
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Women of the Gobi (video)
Following on from the last one, this John D. Liu video from the Environmental Education Media Project takes us to…
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My Experience of Permaculture Aid Work in Ethiopia
I’m not sure it’s possible, looking back now, to say exactly what I was expecting when I hopped on that…
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