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how much food can i grow around my house?
2008-05-04 16:41:00 And what about you? How much food can you grow around your house? Peak Moment TV. Share This More About: House , Food , Grow
building a composting toilet
2008-05-04 14:52:00 Very simple version. After each use of the toilet, a handful of straw, ashes, or other compostable material should be dropped in to cover the ‘doings’. When full the bucket should be emptied onto your compost heap, and again covered with other material (kitchen waste, weeds, grass, straw etc). This keeps down smells and flies. ... More About: Building , Toilet
one of history?s great atrocities: the corporate theft of the public?s natu
2008-05-04 14:08:00 The current 1.1 billion people worldwide without access to potable water only opens one of the smaller windows on the injustices and the multiple casualties being wrought by private water-related industries. In fact, many are clueless to the magnitude of the victims ? present and projected ? of the growing water crisis as well as ... More About: History , Public , Corporate , Great , Theft
the global food crisis - slideshow
2008-05-03 19:16:00 | View | Upload your own Share This More About: Food , Global , Slideshow , Crisis
global famine
2008-05-03 19:09:00 Michel Chossudovsky points out in this article that the present food ‘crisis’ is the result of economic restructuring and investor speculation, exacerbating problems create d by climate change, poverty and other factors causing reduced supplies. The media has casually misled public opinion on the causes of these price hikes, focusing almost exclusively on issues of costs of production, climate and other factors which result in reduced supply ... More About: Global , Famine
mr. potato heads off food crisis
2008-05-02 01:59:00 Another inspiring article about food and the wonders of hemp. The latest “crisis” spreading throughout the world, the food crisis, may actually backfire on the giant capitalists reaping great profits from all they have sown without mercy for nearly a century. The US food crisis is in part being experienced because during the past 80 ... More About: Food , Potato , Crisis , Heads
building raised beds
2008-05-02 01:13:00 Ok, its not specifically about bringing down civilisation, or even news about what our industrial society is doing to the planet. But, the more people who learn how to grow their own food, reducing their reliance on capitalism, the better. We plan to publish and create links to a wide variety of ‘how to’ information ... More About: Building , Beds
why food is complicated
2008-05-01 19:40:00 Another great article by Sharon Astyk. I have come to feel that the term ?mess? does not adequately describe the complexity of our present food crisis. In fact, the whole thing reminds me of that old Calvin and Hobbes cartoon in which Calvin complains that scientists give things lame names, and that the ?big bang? ... More About: Food , Complicated
do not start panic buying
2008-04-27 16:46:00 So says one of the suggestions on a recent post by Sharon Astyk. Good advice. So don?t buy rice right now. Take a deep breath again, and recognize that you and I will always be able to outbid poor people for rice, and that part of why food storage buying made sense is because my ... More About: Buying , Start , Panic
?capitalism is literally consuming itself?
2008-04-27 12:46:00 The Role of Speculators in the Global Food Crisis By Beat Balzli and Frank Hornig Biofuels and global warming have been blamed for shortages driving up the price of food, and both trends have played their role. The planet’s grain reserves are almost empty for a number of reasons, including global population growth and greater prosperity in ... More About: Capitalism , Literally
peak clothing and peak water
2008-04-26 19:28:00 A BBC article warning that consumers should prepare for the price of clothing to increase. “It all comes down to energy,” explains Bradley George, head of commodities and resources at Investec Asset Management. “We are basically short of power in the world right now.” Hence, it is not only a question of whether land should be used ... More About: Clothing , Water , Peak
the long emergency pt.1
2008-04-26 19:02:00 Jim Kunstler talking about the long emergency. Share This More About: Long , Emergency
James Kunstler interview
2008-04-26 18:59:00 How will the U.S. have to adapt? Virtually anything organized on a grand scale is liable to fall into trouble?government, finance, corporate enterprise, agribusiness, schools. Our gigantic metroplex cities will prove to be inconsistent with the energy diet of our future. I think our smaller cities and towns will be reactivated. We are going to be ... More About: Interview , James
an alternative agriculture is possible - the politics of food is politics
2008-04-26 13:30:00 Another sense-filled article. Orginally published at Counterpunch. By DE CLARKE and STAN GOFF. Why do we tolerate it — and the near-totalitarian control exercised over our food supply by a handful of giant agribiz combines? In part we tolerate monopoly and lousy quality in our food economy because the public believes industry propaganda that (in Margaret ... More About: Politics , Food , Alternative , Agriculture
negotiable or not, the American Way of Life must be extinguished?.
2008-04-23 18:19:00 Another article worthy of a full reprint: Is the Western consumerist culture that we inflict upon the rest of the world truly the pinnacle of our evolution? If it is, I resign my membership in the human race. Though I don?t fear that I?ll be compelled to tender my resignation any time soon because our so-called ... More About: Life , American , The American Way
seed banking
2008-04-23 18:11:00 As the world?s seed supply is increasingly owned by multinational companies, farmers and gardeners are losing control of the seeds available to them. Vegetable varieties that were valued for their superior flavor are being replaced by varieties that can withstand traveling across the country, or across the world, in today?s global food market.The seed bank ... More About: Banking , Seed
organic versus genetically modified
2008-04-22 19:58:00 A recent issue of the ecologist has two articles: 10 reasons why organic can feed the world 9. Seed-saving Seeds are not simply a source of food; they are living testimony to more than 10,000 years of agricultural domestication. Tragically, however, they are a resource that has suffered unprecedented neglect. The UN FAO estimates that 75 per cent ... More About: Organic , Versus
roohstar sings the poos! from transition town totnes, uk
2008-04-22 19:12:00 http://totnes.transitionnetwork.org/ http://landmatters.org.uk/ http://roohstar.net/ Share This More About: Town , Transition , Sings
more on food: stop the multinationals
2008-04-22 18:54:00 Article on Alternet, by Raj Patel. Raj, talk about coffee. The price of coffee is absolutely a function of the way the food system works today. If you look at the path that coffee takes from the field to our cups, you will see that the farmers get paid a pittance. The processors get paid a little ... More About: Food , Stop
ecomachine - cleaning water with plants
2008-04-22 16:41:00 more useful videos on http://www.ecohood.info/ Share This More About: Plants , Cleaning , Water
the end of the world as we know it is nigh
2008-04-22 14:22:00 In the future envisaged by Kevin Moore, people are going to be divided into two groups, those who perish and those who survive. “Survivors are people who know what is happening and they are preparing for the real future.”The perishers are the people who don’t know what is happening, or don’t care, or who believe ... More About: World , The World , End Of The World
global food crisis: hunger plagues Haiti and the World
2008-04-22 00:28:00 Consumers in rich countries feel it in supermarkets but in the world’s poorest ones people are starving. The reason - soaring food prices, and it’s triggered riots around the world in places like Mexico, Indonesia, Yemen, the Philippines, Cambodia, Morocco, Senegal, Uzbekistan, Guinea, Mauritania, Egypt, Cameroon, Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Peru, Bolivia and Haiti ... More About: Food , World , Hunger , Global , The World
seed patents, GM crops, industrial food - the power to own and control life
2008-04-19 14:08:00 Share This More About: Life , Power , Food , Industrial , Control
price increases, food shortages and riots
2008-04-18 20:06:00 In between the reports of economic downturn, recession, depression and the usual banality of the mainstream media, more and more reports are appearing related to food problems. Worlwide grain harvests are dow n, grain stocks are at an all time low, poor people are struggling to buy food - some are blaming their governments and protesting/rioting, governments are restricting food exports, the west is using food as ... More About: Food , Price , Riots
weaning themselves from supermarkets
2008-04-16 17:11:00 The villagers of Martin, Hants, UK are working together to provide themselves with local organic food. A fantastic co-operative project, that we could all learn from. From their website: Futurefarms is a co-operative, set up in early 2004, whose purpose is to grow food within the parish of Martin in Hampshire, for sale to the people ... More About: Supermarkets
the end of suburbia
2008-04-09 19:53:00 Since World War II North Americans have invested much of their newfound wealth in suburbia. It has promised a sense of space, affordability, family life and upward mobility. As the population of suburban sprawl has exploded in the past 50 years, so too has the suburban way of life become embedded in the American consciousness. Suburbia , ...
the waking up syndrome
2008-04-09 19:38:00 Original article by Sarah Anne Edwards and Linda Buzzell. We are reprinting this article in full, as it is a very useful article in terms of helping us to accept our own reactions to the dire situation before us. Civilisation and the culture of empire is making the earth uninhabitable. Fossil fuels that have enabled this ... More About: Syndrome
american refugees are flooding into canada
2008-03-23 13:40:00 Report from the BBC, reporting that tens of thousands of US citizens are fleeing to Canada as economic refugees. Also a report on www.chycho.com Canadians will also need to be prepared for this influx, especially considering that the average processing time for a refugee claim in Canada is currently 14.2 months, ?a period during which the ... More About: American , Refugees , Flooding
more russians opting to live off the land
More articles from this author:2008-03-22 18:20:00 A short clip about how many Russians are inspired by the Anastasia books to move back to the countryside and live closer to nature. The story began in 1994 on the bank of the River Ob amidst the endless expanses of the Siberian taiga. The well-known Siberian entrepreneur Vladimir Megre met with two elderly gentlemen who ... More About: Live , Land 1, 2 |
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