Global Warming/Climate Change
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Bullied by Oil Giant TransCanada
Meet Meghan Hammond, a sixth-generation Nebraskan farmer threatened by TransCanada. In an effort to save their land from a huge…
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Wake up Before it is Too Late – Make Agriculture Truly Sustainable Now for Food Security in a Changing Climate
Click to download (5mb PDF) In late September of last year (2013) the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development…
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Crash on Demand? A Response to David Holmgren
D. Lange “Mr. Dougherty and kid. Warm Springs, Malheur County, Oregon” October 1939 David Holmgren, for whom I have the…
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Crash on Demand: Welcome to the Brown Tech Future
First published on Holmgren Design website Introduction This essay updates my Future Scenarios (2007) (1) work but also builds on…
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Preserving the Past to Serve the Future – Wellbeing Farm, A Pragmatic Approach to Permaculture, Transition, and Reskilling (USA)
After leaving the Mid-Atlantic Transition Hub Waterways Reskilling gathering held on November 23, 2013 I realized that the practitioners who…
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India’s Dangerous ‘Food Bubble’
Editor’s Note: As is often the case with the Earth Policy Institute (EPI), crucial solutions are largely missing from the…
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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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Climate Change Driving Weather off the Charts
by Janet Larsen, Earth Policy Institute Super typhoon Haiyan Meteorologists are calling the typhoon that slammed into the Philippines with…
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Weeds or Wild Nature: a Permaculture Perspective
by David Holmgren Summary Land design and management informed by permaculture principles tends to regard naturalized species of plants as…
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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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