Start Gardening With a Vengeance

SUBHEAD: More of us should take up the spade, make some compost, and start gardening as if our lives depended on it.By Ellen LaConte on 30 March 2011 in AlterNet - (http://www.alternet.org/food/150428/garden_as_if_your_life_depended_on_it%2C_because_it_does)Image above: Poster circa 1925 with Uncle Sam advocating "Garden to cut food costs!" From (http://gallery.pictopia.com/natf/photo/8612566/).

The Local Food Revolution

SUBHEAD: A revolution aimed at rebuilding food security and food sovereignty for all.By Michael Brownlee on 24 March 2011 in Boulder Weekly - (http://www.boulderweekly.com/article-4806-id-like-to-see-a-study-on-the-relative-cost-for-t.html)Image above: Boulder Belt Farm share. From (http://www.localharvest.org/blog/330/entry/boulder_belt_farm_share_inititiative16).Boulder, Colorado -Anyone living

UN is Getting Into Permaculture

SUBHEAD: Putting more trees on farms is fundamental to the future agricultural development.By Paul Stapleton on 9 February 2011 in EureakAlert! - (http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-02/wac-pto020911.php)Image above: A tropical agroforestry tree nursery. From (http://www.forestnursery.com/).Trees growing on farms will be essential to future development. As the number of trees in forests

Slow Money

SUBHEAD: Reconnecting the economy to soil, biodiversity and food quality.By Woody Tasch on 2 December 2010 in Mother Earth News -(http://www.motherearthnews.com/nature-community/slow-money-ze0z10zhir.aspx)Image above: A slow growth money tree. From (http://blog.hostyourspace.co.uk/if-you-are-new-in-inverting-then-follow-these-guidelines-for-success). The following is an excerpt from Inquiries

The Biochar Solution

SUBHEAD: Ethically seeding a large portion of the Earth's soils with biochar may actually become politically feasible.By Kurt Cobb on 12 December 2010 in Resource Insights - (http://resourceinsights.blogspot.com/2010/12/why-you-should-read-biochar-solution.html)Image above: Tractor plowing charred plants into the soil. From (http://knowledge.allianz.com/en/news/viewdetail/biochar_farm_soil.html).

Reducing Our Water Use

SUBHEAD: The existing water-based waste disposal economy is not viable. Recycling human waste is a necessity.Image above: An example of a composting toilet. From (http://www.compostingtoiletreviews.com/types-of-composting-toilets).By Lester R. Brown on 3 November 2010 in Earth Policy Institute - (http://www.earth-policy.org/book_bytes/2010/pb4ch06_ss5) U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt once