Year: 2012
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Forbidden Planet
We cannot restrain climate change without a political fight against plutocracy. by George Monbiot: journalist, author, academic and environmental and…
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SOIL Wins Land for Life Award for Composting Toilet Aid Work in Haiti
In June of this year, SOIL (Sustainable Organic Integrated Livelihoods) won the new UNCCD (United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification)…
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Beginning Permaculture – Ideas for Renters
So you’re renting and think why bother working on the garden when you’ll only have to leave. In my experience…
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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 Principles Card Deck
As an offering to the world community, Gaiacraft presents a unique card deck which explores the permaculture principles in a…
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Reflections on a Tropical Island PDC with Rhamis Kent
Photo: Peter Axisa The sun goes down on another PDC and another 11 students are glowing and growing. This time…
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Consumer Choices
by William Park, Eco Ola, Peru Heritage varieties of Quinoa outside Alausí, Ecuador Can consumer choice be a driver of…
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What To Do With Apples From the Backyard Orchard
by Ernest Rando This post is a general how-to for preserving apples. We have a 3-ish acre orchard (mostly apples)…
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The Fat of the Land
Robbing the poor, trashing the natural world: Europe’s farm subsidies are an obscenity. by George Monbiot: journalist, author, academic and…
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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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The Sufficiency Economy – Envisioning a Prosperous Way Down
Editor’s Preamble: I would exhort readers to ignore the potentially off-putting length of this piece, to instead step into, and…
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