Global Warming/Climate Change
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UNCCD Land for Life Award Winner – TEMA (Turkey)
The UNCCD’s Land for Life Award winners were announced on the World Day to Combat Desertification, 17 June 2012, during…
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Resource Testeria
Promoting extractive industries is seen by politicians as a proper, manly pursuit, even if it makes no sense. by George…
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A Computer Geek Starts a Garden, Part II – We Are Chlorophyll Managers
Last night I ate a couple of dozen cherry tomatoes from my just-getting-started garden. A little pepper and salt and…
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A Link Between Climate Change and Joplin Tornadoes? Never!
//www.youtube.com/embed/xhCY-3XnqS0 Based on an op-ed by enviro-journalist, Bill McKibben, this video tells us not to make connections….
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It’s a Forest, You Just Can’t See It
An aerial view of a goat farm in the desert outside Dubai, a landscape that would benefit from Tony Rinaudo’s…
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Grain Yields Starting to Plateau
Editor’s Note: As regular readers will know, I don’t agree 100% with everything I post to the site. The article…
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Cigarettes Up by Another Five Dollars
Consistency of Policy required The Federal Government of Australia is increasing the excise on cigarettes by 60% over four years,…
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Permaculture in Lesotho
The PRI editor has been encouraging me to give a little more background info on my work on the ground…
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Endgame Strategy
Why the Revolution Must Start in America The unrest in the Middle East, the convulsions in Ivory Coast, the hunger…
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Fossil Fuel Use Pushes Carbon Dioxide Emissions into Dangerous Territory
by Emily E. Adams, Earth Policy Institute Increasing global emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2), a heat-trapping gas, are pushing the…
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Food or Fuel?
by Lester R. Brown, Earth Policy Institute At the time of the Arab oil export embargo in the 1970s, the…
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How Non-GM Cassava Can Help Feed the World
Great strides are being made in improving this important staple through conventional breeding by Prof Peter Saunders A fully referenced…
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