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I have been following the climate-change and carbon storage debates for over 30 years and still have not heard of any proposals that make as much sense as the one outlined herein. I was inspired to write this after attending the 2009 Klimaforum09, the grassroots alternative to the 2009 Copenhagen Climate Conference, in which 50,000 people from civil society, small farmers, indigenous people, NGOs, etc., participated.  These grassroots activists went […]

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 […]

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 […]