What would daily life be like in a ‘degrowth’ economy? That is, in an economy seeking planned contraction of energy…
What is “happy meat?” Is meat-eating inherently destructive, or can we have “happy ecosystems” along with happy meat? What does meat-eating…
What would a ‘real’ Green New Deal involve? In this presentation Samuel Alexander argues that it would require policies to…
Pictures and commentary from our garden. Plants that get a particular mention are pawpaws and sweet potatoes, and there are…
Many factors within the agriculture industry are harmful to the environment and make things more complicated for plant caretakers. Permaculture…
This presentation gives an overview of Henry David Thoreau’s philosophy of sufficiency, which he developed and practised during his famous…
What gardeners do is somewhere on a continuum from controlling the life (and death) cycles in the garden, to managing…
This presentation is about making renewable energy in your backyard from food scraps. Samuel Alexander of the Simplicity Institute provides…
The possible uses for bananas–the fruit, the foliage, and the trunks–seem almost endless. In this article I share lots of…
Dr Samuel Alexander co-director of the Simplicity Institute brings to us this free online course – “Ecological Civilisation: Beyond Consumerism…
Michael Servais lives in Boston and Sean Warner is a resident of Atlanta. They have this in common: As college…
Article by: Sven Batke, Edge Hill University Approximately 4.5 billion years ago, Earth’s land surface was barren and devoid of…
No one can avoid pests forever. They’ll make homes in your sustainable garden beds and self-sufficient landscaping, whether you strategically…
This started from a gathering of a few recent entries in my personal journal and grew into a post about…
Authors: Ben Tyler & Greta Zarro, Unadilla Community Farm As permaculture principles gain popularity, there is growing interest in “dynamic…