People Systems
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The Tale of a Local Community Network (Melbourne, Australia)
I attended the Community Gardens Conference in Canberra in 2010. Myles Bremner, CEO of Garden Organic, Europe’s main organic gardening…
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Social Permaculture: Principles in Action
Photo by Lisa DePiano Permaculture as a movement has most of the knowledge, tools and resources that we need to…
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Video Spotlight on Kotare Village (New Zealand)
You’ll enjoy this little video, a nice collage of thoughts and scenery and developing community integration. This is Kotare Village…
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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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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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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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The Global Movement that Barack Obama Isn’t Leading
A lot of people look to Barack Obama as the enlightened leader, the psychopomp who will lead the world away…
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Women of the Gobi (video)
Following on from the last one, this John D. Liu video from the Environmental Education Media Project takes us to…
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The Guardian Institutions of Hierarchy
One aspect of human culture that seems irresistible to the ancient status-seeking part of our brain is the development of…
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Vivir Bien (Living Well): a New Model For Development From Bolivia’s Indigenous Process of Change
Pachamama (Mother Earth) Under the presidency of Evo Morales, Bolivia has taken a leadership role in the global climate change…
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Law Against Ecocide Was Suggested As Early as 1972
Imagine it’s 2020 I write to you from 2020, a world where there is no more Ecocide; a law of…
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Money Spinners
Here’s how we can defeat political corruption of the kind that’s destroying US democracy. by George Monbiot: journalist, author, academic…
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