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The Need to Limit Energy Use
Energy: An Addiction or a Necessity? Energy is arguably the most defining aspect of industrial civilization. For the first couple…
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Art Against Empire: Toward an Aesthetics of Degrowth
Last friday, I launched my new book called Art Against Empire: Toward an Aesthetics of Degrowth. This book is the…
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The Importance of Guilds and Nitrogen Fixers
How is it that the natural world provides excessive abundance while not relying on any external sources of nutrients? Nature…
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What Zone 5 Has Taught Me
Defining those infamous “zones” across your landscape is one of the first and most cherished challenges that newcomers to permaculture…
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Remarkable Rutabagas
What do you get when you cross a turnip (Brassica rapa) and wild cabbage (Brassica oleracea)? A rutabaga (Brassica napobrassica)…
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Benefits and Barriers to Framing Traceability in Industrial Farms
There are growing environmental challenges and stakeholders in different sectors of the economy across the world are increasingly aware of…
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Culture Jamming Art: Book Launch Invite
This is one final reminder for those in Melbourne who might be interested in attending my book launch this Friday,…
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Drip Allocation with Octopus IV
It probably is about the fourth prototype, but the IV actually stands for Intravenous like the gravity drip apparatus used…
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Australia’s Capacity for Pumped Hydro-Storage Could Support a Completely Renewable Power Grid Within 20 Years
A recent analysis conducted by the Australian National University (ANU) has revealed that the country has the potential to store…
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How Do You Use Urine?
Composting toilets are a great thing. They take what has become a problem in modern systems—human excrement—and make it into…
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Outstanding Onions
Onions (Allium cepa L.), being the most extensively cultivated species of the Allium genus, are a root crop that nearly…
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Ethical Investment Harbors
Investing locally in Ethical Companies One of the defining characteristics of our modern day civilization is that our language has…
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