Soil Erosion & Contamination
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Report on our Iranian Consultancy Trip of December 2008
Editor’s Note: Iran has been making headlines in the media a great deal over the last few years. Here’s a…
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Vetiver Grass – A Hedge Against Erosion
PIJ #54, March – May 1995 Soil erosion is perhaps the world’s most chronic environmental problem that is literally costing…
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Phosphorus Matters
Part One: Closing the Phosphorus Cycle Phosphate mine on Nauru island. Currently part of it is reforested. Photo: Jon Harald…
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The Food Crisis: “A Perfect Storm” – and How to Turn the Tide
A recently released study, the largest of its kind, examines the root causes of, and solutions for, a food crisis…
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Chemical Based Farming Systems Robbing Us of Nutrients
Full Report (5mb PDF) Executive Summary (PDF) 2-Page Consumer Summary (PDF) Press Release (PDF) Nutrient levels in food supply eroded…
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Learning from the Past
by Lester R. Brown, Earth Policy Institute, Washington D.C., U.S.A. Our twenty-first century global civilization is not the first to…
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Can Permaculture Save the World???
Editor’s Note: Point one – this article is circa 1998, from the now-ceased publication Permaculture International Journal. Point two –…
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Easter Island – Our Past, or Our Future?
Click for full view Courtesy: Throbgoblins Easter Island has long been looked upon as an historical looking glass, through which…
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Humanure Handbook – Free Download
With chapters like ‘Crap Happens’, ‘Deep Shit’ and ‘A Day in the Life of a Turd’, this is sure to…
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