Society
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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://www.permaculturenews.org/2016/10/05/understanding-urban-agriculture-part-1-present-state-historical-context/ People who…
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Making Solar Power Reality in Our Cities
I stepped out of line last time when I posed the question; do our cities have the right to exist…
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Cuba Uses Localized Permaculture as One Solution to Peak Oil
Permaculture offers alternatives to fossil fuels by tackling problems on a hyper local level whilst remaining mindful of their place…
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When Big Business Bottom Line is Not the Bottom Line
A harsh reality of big business is the bottom line – the desire for corporations to always be in the…
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Fighting Seed Hegemony
For anyone familiar with the heavy-handed sales approach that Monsanto takes with farmers around the world, this seemingly unrelated clip…
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Should We Debate The Future of Our Cities
The earliest human habitations were caves, on mountaintops, or inside hastily thrown-up fortifications on open plains. After the Neolithic Revolution…
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Comparative look at Organic and Conventional Farming
Organic farming has in the recent past gained popularity. Farmers are willing to take up the risks associated with this…
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Shifting Baseline Syndrome
To put it in its most simplest terms, shifting baseline syndrome is basically the way in which humans, and every…
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Then and Now: A Baby Boomer Growing Up
World War II caused three major economic disruptions in Europe. The military commandeered a large part of the active workforce,…
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Agari Permaculture Farm
A film about Agari Permaculture Farm showing their amazing cob house, earthbag dome, kitchen/social area, and the awesome people who…
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Living Simply in a Tiny Off Grid Cabin
Tom, Sarah, and their daughter Neesa all live in a tiny 20sqm off grid cabin on a property on the…
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Why Our Lawns Are Bad for the Environment and How to Change Them for the Better
Lawns were a European invention, England to be precise, and they were the undertaking of the fabulously wealthy, seeking to…
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