Soil Erosion & Contamination
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Water Not Fit to Drink
From pathogens, biological drugs, illicit drugs to arsenic, by Prof Joe Cummins A fully referenced version of this article is…
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China’s Rising Soybean Consumption Reshaping Western Agriculture
by Lester R. Brown, Earth Policy Institute Where was once pristine Amazon rainforest, soybean harvesters march across the landscape instead…
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Food MythBusters – Do We Really Need Industrial Agriculture to Feed the World? (video)
Further Reading: A Farm for the Future (BBC video) The Rodale Institute’s 30-Year Farming Systems Trial Report Biodiverse Systems are…
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Line in the Sand (Video)
We often only begin to understand the importance of nutrient- and water-cycling when they don’t — when they don’t cycle,…
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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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Cleaning House the Permaculture Way
In permaculture design we look at the inputs and outputs of various components, and try to connect things to each…
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Flow – For the Love of Water (Documentary)
https://youtube.com/watch?v=zmWdco0glEA As permaculturists, we have a great many solutions for the water crisis. From water harvesting to reed bed grey…
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Let’s Talk About Soil
Further Reading: Soil – Our Financial Institution The Story of Soil
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Who Benefits from GM Crops – An Industry Built On Myths
Click to download (2.7mb PDF) At bottom of my article GM Crops, Pesticides and the Poor I had made four…
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Permaculture Design on the Edge – Patterns of Coastal Settlement and Regeneration
by Jason Gerhardt The author scopes out an oyster reef in Pamlico Sound, NC Photo Credit: Jason Gerhardt Being a…
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Lessons From the Dust Bowl
The dust-bowl era of the ‘dirty thirties’ was the worst man-made environmental disaster in U.S. history, and one of the…
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