Village Development
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A Shorter Working Week is Possible
Click for full view Marcin Gerwin: It was predicted in the 1930 by the economist John Maynard Keynes that thanks…
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Evolving Signs
I first got into permaculture in my late teens — being introduced to it by a friend who was also…
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The Royal Buffalo Bank – Promoting Animal Traction
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqK2CN0J_jM Water Buffalo have been a community staple throughout Southeast Asia for centuries, especially in Thailand where the largest agricultural…
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Why We Are a CSA Farm (Victoria, Australia)
by Peter Carlyon, Transition Farm As we are now supplying 80 families every week with produce from our farm, and…
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The Power of Local Unity: Small US Town Enacts Free Food Trade (Sedgewick, Maine, USA)
via NewsBeaconIreland Sedgwick, Maine, the first town in the US to legalize any kind of food transaction as free and legal in…
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Right Livelihood – How Can We All $upport One Another?
The notion of Right Livelihood is an interesting subject and surprisingly, sometimes controversial. by Carolyn Payne-Gemmell So, what do I…
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On the Other Side of Collapse: Notes from the Island of Cyprus
Sofia and crew with their recently built greenhouse This is an interview with my cousin, Sofia Matsi. Sofia is a…
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A Global Exploration of Economic Possibilities
Highlights from the Berlin conference that attracted 200 commoners from 30 countries. Click to download (665kb PDF) The Heinrich Boll…
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The Deep Green Alternative – Debating Strategies of Transition
by Samuel Alexander and Jonathan Rutherford, Simplicity institute report 14a, 2014 Introduction Evidence continues to mount that industrial civilisation, driven…
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Wake up Before it is Too Late – Make Agriculture Truly Sustainable Now for Food Security in a Changing Climate
Click to download (5mb PDF) In late September of last year (2013) the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development…
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Bringing Permaculture Solutions Back From the IPC in Cuba
In my study of the design system of permaculture, one problem that I’ve come across is that, as permaculturists, many…
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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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