Year: 2012
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Concentric Rings of Change
As you’ll have noticed, I’ve been using this time of year (when people are, hopefully, doing family- and/or outdoor-oriented activities,…
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Success in Tough Times (France)
by Steve Hanson 2012 is our eighth year of small scale farming in France and has seen us move from…
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Local Spotlight: But Don’t We Need Economic Growth to Lift the Poor Out of Poverty? (Ghana)
This article was originally published on the Post Growth Institute Website. Farmers planting nitrogen fixing trees on their farms As…
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Permaculture Forest Garden, Badagry, Lagos State, Nigeria
Since 2011 the Adunni Susanne Wenger Foundation in Nigeria, in Cooperation with the German NGO SONED Brandenburg e.V., built up…
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Expanding Dust Bowls Worsening Food Prospects in China and Africa
by Janet Larsen, Earth Policy Institute Encroaching Gobi desert When most people hear the term “dust bowl,” they think of…
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Community Projects
Thoughts on Vocational Training Centers for Ecological Restoration
John D. Liu I’m often asked “What can I do to help?” to restore the Earth. Over the years I’ve…
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Enough!
Whenever I contemplate the spectacular mischief that we humans have wreaked on our world, I am compelled to ask how…
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Practical Plants Database
Fresh onto the interweb is a project that I had on my own things-to-do list for some time now, but…
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My Post-Electric Washing Machine: The Deindustrial 2020
by Dr Samuel Alexander, co-director of the Simplicity Institute and a lecturer with the Office for Environmental Programs, University of…
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‘Bug-Splats’
Some dead children are mourned; others are dehumanised. by George Monbiot “Mere words cannot match the depths of your sorrow,…
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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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