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Why Not to Use Plastic Bags

Masanobu Fukuoka pioneer of ‘‘natural’’ farming passes away at 95

Gaviota: Colombia's Green Eco-village

Sustainable Eating

Rain Water Catchment

Costly Farm Fertilizer Killing the Ocean

The Facts Behind King Corn

Nigerian Man Invents Earthenware Cooling System to Preserve Perishable Foods in Developing Countries with Arid Climates

Traditional Dairies Feel Vindicated as Monsanto Divests Itself of Dairy Hormones

Old Fashioned Farming with Solar Panels -- Kentucky Success story

Reclaiming an Eco System - California Success Story

Who Says Good Nutrition Means Animal Fats? Weston A. Price

Unbelieveable Plastic Buildup in Pacific Ocean

Haitian Women Reduced to Feeding Their Children Dirt mixed with Salt and Vegetable Shortening

Organic agriculture: 70 peer-reviewed scientific articles

Is Your Picnic Filled with Franken-Food?

The Incredible Edible Front Lawn

Orchestrating Famine: A Must-Read Backgrounder on the Food Crisis

Slow Food Nation comes to San Francisco

Appropriate Technology for Garden Irrigation: The Rope-Washer Pump

2000 year old Date Palm Seed Grows

Livestock Guard Dogs

Bush Hogging American Style or Slashing Australian Style

Sunny or Windy, Which suits your Alternative Energy Needs?

Roof Top Wind Farms

Ecosystems with Many Plant Species Produce More and Survive Threats Better

Giant BioTech Companies are Patenting Genes to Resist Climate Change

Horses Abandoned in Western US as Feed Prices Rise

Is Water becoming the New Peak Oil?

Family Seed Company Takes on Goliath

Why Bananas are a Parable for Our Time

Pedaling Toward Cleaner Cities

Perennial Polyculture Farming- Seeds of Another Agricultural Revolution

Sinking without Trace: Australia's Climate Change Victims in The Independent

Taking the Fear Out of Eating Fat

Principles of a Healthy Diet

The Gospel of Consumption and The Better Future We Left Behind in Orion Magazine

Bicycle Sharing Program to Be First of Its Kind in US in the New York Times

Avoidable Hunger: More than biofuels and population growth, it is rich countries' agricultural subsidies that are causing hunger in the developing world in the Guardian

Eat Locally, Survive Globally in the Toronto Star

How to Be A Climate Hero in Orion Magazine

Thousands Turn out in Australia to Hear Cuban Permaculturist Robert Perez (who was in the video The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil)

Exposed: The Great GM Crops Myth. Major New study Shows Genetically Modified Food Produces 10% less food than its convential equivalent

Entire Village Of Martin UK turns Against Supermarkets and Grows Its Own Food

India's Farmers Committing Suicide from Burden of Corporate Sponsored "Green Revolution" - San Francisco Chronicle

Backyard Answer to the Energy Crisis with Permaculture co-founder David Holmgren in the Sydney Morning Herald

Build an Integral Passive Solar Hot Water Heater

Canadian Percy Schmeiser's decade-long legal battle with Monsanto has finally come to an end.

Young Urbanites Are Becoming Farmers- in New York Times

Food Crisis Will Take Hold Before Climate Change warned Chief Scientist-in The Guardian

How to Make a Living Willow Dome from Long Willow Whips --from Willows Nursery in England

How to Decode Egg Cartons: Not All Eggs Are Created Equal by Laura Sayre in Mother Earth News

The Homestead Poultry Flock by Harvey Ussery, permaculturist

New Documentary King Corn is a lot more than filler fare by Angela Woodall from InsideBayArea.com

The Five Stages of Collapse: Surviving the Collapse of the Soviet Union by Dmitry Orlov

Use of Permaculture under drought and salinity conditions from the Permaculture Research Institute

Wild Rice Moon by Winona LaDuke in Yes! Magazine Summer 200: Food for Life

Ricekeepers-a Struggle to Protect Biodiversity and a Native American Way of Life by Winona LaDuke (Ojibwe Band) and executive director of Honor the Earth in Orion Magazine Jul/Aug '07

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How to Talk to a Climate Skeptic

Use of Gas from Daily Wastes: Asian/Pacific Cultural Center for UNESCO

What if bad fat is not so bad? MSNBC Dec 13, 2007

How to Sleep Like a Hunter Gatherer- Not all people sleep in "giant sleep machines" Discover Jan 2, 2008

Amy Wells, 8, survives car crash in wild after reading Willie Whitefeather's book Outdoor Survival Handbook for Kids

Letting rainwater reign in the design process, instead of routing water offsite, work it into the project

This is The Hour: Message from Native American Hopi Elders

Diet with a Little Meat Uses Less Land Than Vegetarian: Science Digest Oct 10, 2007

Safe, Inexpensive Fertilizer for Food Crops: Science Daily Oct 8, 2007

Solar Soon to Be Cheaper Than Coal

Bay Area cleans up oil spill with hair and mushrooms

Mother Earth News Interview: Bill Mollison

Permaculture Reflections: Interview with Geoff Lawton

In Context:Interview with Bill Mollison

Arid Lands Newsletter: The Man Who Farmed Water

The Independent/UK: A World Dying, but Can We Unite to Save It?

Permaculture A Quiet Revolution: Interview with Bill Mollison

Seeds of Change Interview: Bill Mollison

Seeds of Change article: Darren Doherty comments

Regenerative Design

The Future of Food: Monopolizing Seeds that Feed the World by Devvy Kidd

What Will We Eat As The Oil Runs Out? by Richard Heinberg

 

 

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