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Charting Collapseniks
Rather than spurning financial system terrorists, Holmgren urges activists to become “terra-ists”; to directly bring down the system by thousands…
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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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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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Syria Back-Story, Part 2: Blood For Oil
Continuing from Part I. Almost all conflicts that take place in the Middle East are motivated by the need to…
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Interview with Richard Heinberg: Do We Really Need Economic Growth?
Marcin Gerwin (Poland): For most heads of states, the prime minister of Poland included, the central point of economic policy…
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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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Retrofitting a Small Town
For the last four years, I have been dreaming of retrofitting a small town with a group of like-minded individuals…
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Growth is Obsolete
Society needs to realize growth does not equal prosperity. The word that sticks in the craw of many who cogitate…
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Transition Towns – Organizing For Resilience (video)
Rob Hopkins, instigator of the Transition Towns movement, is on tour in the U.S. This video is a 90 minute…
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