We've written before about Permaculture Principles, and the video above is a great intro, but what exactly is Permaculture anyway? Wikipedia says: "Permaculture is an approach to designing human settlements and agricultural systems that are modelled on the relationships found in natural ecologies." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permaculture The Permaculture Association says on its homepage: "Permaculture works with nature to make a better world for all. By observing the natural world we can … [Read more...]
Coworking at The Clouds – An Invitation
Every Tuesday from 11am until about 4-5pm (sometime later - lots of good stuff happens here in the evenings too) United Diversity and VisionOn.TV will be hosting upstairs at Passing Clouds (1 Richmond Road, London E8 4AA) as a free Coworking space. Are you working on an intelligent response to climate, energy or economic uncertainty? A community land, money or media project perhaps? Or any other imaginative initiative for a radically better world (hat tip toour friends at The Hub network of … [Read more...]
The London Orchard Project
I love this project. "The London Orchard Project is a fresh initiative promoting orchards and fruit trees in London. We are working with Londoners to plant and harvest apple, pear and plum trees all over the city, and help us all to rediscover the pleasure of eating home-grown fruit." Please help them raise funds to expand their fantastic work and for more info visit their great website. Inspired? Why not start your own food project? … [Read more...]
Mark Rutledge for Cap and Share models for sustainable energy commons
Via Feasta: “Cap and Share: mechanisms to share scarce resources and provide economic incentives for renewable energy and efficiency investment. Mark Rutledge, an environmental consultant, argues that the adoption of Cap and Share, Feasta’s proposed framework for a global climate treaty, is a necessary tool for dealing with peak oil and the current world recession. Unless it is used, any economic recovery will be strangled at birth as oil prices rise again. Recorded on day two of The New … [Read more...]
Strawbale prefab building timelapse – Strohballen Vorfertigung Zeitraffer
Strawbale prefab building timelapse - Strohballen Vorfertigung Zeitraffer This clip is part of film material for a new film about strawbale building: "Houses of straw - Part 2". Become a sponsor for this project! More information about this film: www.ecofilm.de This timelapse clip shows the build-up of a prefab-strawbale building in Germany, in the ecovillage Siebenlinden. Architect: Dirk Scharmer. The wall elements were built in a hall nearby, transported to the spot and built up … [Read more...]
Collaboration for large groups
There is a dialogue taking place over on Transition Culture, about how Transition hubs relate to the UK network which started this whole Transition idea. If an opportunity arose, to rewrite this MoU collaboratively, we would need a tool which can manage the input from a large number of authors. Check out this video introduction to a tool called Mixed Ink. I have been facilitating online groups for a few years and watching the tools evolve very rapidly. To date. this is the best I have found for … [Read more...]
Biosphere Home Farming from Philips designers
See larger image here. by Clive van Heerden, August 6, 2009 Looking into the economics and politics of rising food prices and theories about impending food shortages led us to create the “food farm” to test peoples sensitivity to the issue. We wanted to develop something initially that would supplement the nutritional needs of a family living in high rise accommodation, without drawing electricity or gas. The ‘’diagnostic kitchen’’ concept is a response to the global diet business and obsession … [Read more...]
The revival of homegrown urban agriculture
Commentary from Sam Rose: “Not only is urban agriculture an emerging movement for individuals, it is also being pursued as part of a sustainable urban renewal strategy throughout the midwest. Some examples include: https://www.milwaukeerenaissance.com/SweetWaterFishFarming/HomePage Sweetwater organics Aquaponics fishfarming in Milwaukee WI self sustaining urban food production in Cleveland, Pittsburgh and Detroit https://localfoodsystems.org/lfs-storytellers Efforts in Chicago and elsewhere … [Read more...]
Rooftop Farms, a 6,000 square foot organic vegetable farm in Brooklyn, New York.
From Brooklyn Supper blog. Photo by Elizabeth Stark ©2008-2009. All rights reserved. See larger image here at Brooklyn Supper. This is a roof of a warehouse in Greenpoint, which is now covered with 200,000 pounds of soil, 1,000 earthworms, and an abundance of vegetables, herbs, and flowers. By Wendy Goodman New York Magazine June 21, 2009 “There are 1,000 worms in here,” Annie Novak says, cracking the lid on a box filled with scraps of newspaper and small squirmy things. The earthworms are about … [Read more...]
Capitalism – A love story
Go Michael! Michael Moore does it again. He’s like the little boy who dares to tell us “the emperor is wearing no clothes”. “It’s a crime story. But it’s also a war story about class warfare. And a vampire movie, with the upper 1 percent feeding off the rest of us. And, of course, it’s also a love story. Only it’s about an abusive relationship. “It’s not about an individual, like Roger Smith, or a corporation, or even an issue, like health care. This is the big enchilada. This is about the … [Read more...]
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