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EXCERPT FROM “DE-GROWTH IN THE SUBURBS, A RADICAL URBAN IMAGINARY. “ Part 2
We started publishing last week this series of an excerpt from Samuel Alexander and Brendan Gleeson’s new book, “Degrowth in the…
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Excerpt from “De-Growth in the Suburbs, A Radical Urban Imaginary. “
Over the next 4 weeks we will be sharing with you excerpt from Samuel Alexander and Brendan Gleeson’s new book, “Degrowth…
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Hello Humanity, it’s me, Technology. We need to talk.
The Post Carbon Institute released this animation as a simple message to raise awareness about how technology has grown with…
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The Reflective Art of Garbage Collection and Deflection
The way we handle trash nowadays allows us to put it on the curb or in the dumpster and forget…
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A Computer Geek Starts a Garden, Part I – Background, Design and Initial Implementation
The yard in winter, before work begins… A great many people today are living in fear. The future looks uncertain,…
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The Time for Change is Now!
What is happening in the world today and how can people help themselves, each other and the planet, so that…
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Food Forests, Part 1: Ronald Reagan’s Day Off
Save Ferris! Ferris Bueller’s Day Off was a 1986 movie about a teenager, his girlfriend and best mate — all…
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Nuclear Energy: A Resource for an Insane Society
Bill Mollison groups the earth’s resources into five categories. These resources are: Those which increase by modest use. For example,…
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Organized Barter and Redistribution of Surplus
In chapter 14 of the Permaculture Designers’ Manual, Bill Mollison gives an interesting example of a restaurant (Zoo Zoo’s) that…
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From the Classroom to the Cyclades
The view from Tao’s Center. It is end of April and the pastures are already dry and barren. Only oleander…
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Tesco-opted
The fight against the superstores is a struggle for democracy by George Monbiot: journalist, author, academic and environmental and political…
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Can We Feed Ourselves in a Post Peak Oil World?
At the end of 2007, the UK’s Simon Fairlie released what is essentially an update to figures produced back in…
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