I cry for the world a lot. How can you live in this world and not cry? Do you live under a bushel basket? Or perhaps you only read the mainstream media? Or perhaps you think that your lot lies with the oppressors? Perhaps you think your fate doesn’t rely on a healthy Earth? Or that the brutal oppression of people in far-away places won’t affect you. I vividly remember […]
Return to our roots | Movies you might’ve missed
There have been a wealth of movies produced in recent years about returning happily to our sustainable, food-producing roots. From a Wall Street investment banker cashing out to become a “bullish farmer” to abandoned Detroit residents reclaiming urban wastelands, to young people choosing careers as small-scale farmers, there’s a new “back to the land” movement under way. The Bullish Farmer tells the story of Wall Street investment banker John “John […]
Return to our roots | MOON Shine
“The greatest change we need to make is from consumption to production, even if on a small scale, in our own gardens. If only 10% of us do this, there is enough for everyone. Hence the futility of revolutionaries who have no gardens, who depend on the very system they attack, and who produce words and bullets, not food and shelter.” – Bill Mollison “One of the most important things about […]
Brett Pritchard | My permaculture journey–and legacy
Permaculture is an ethics-based design system that draws on functional design principles and ecology and aims at designing resilient, low-maintenance food and human habitation systems that follow ecological principles and mimic the patterns and cycles of natural systems. The three main permaculture ethics were devised by Bill Mollison and David Holmgren, the co-founders of permaculture. It is this ethical basis that most dramatically differentiates permaculture from other agricultural techniques such […]
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