PermaCities: The Social Media Game That Will Teach You How to Farm
Discover an open-source, environmentally conscious game that promises to be an alternative to Farmville.
Pickards Mountain Eco-Institute
When a caterpillar becomes over-consumptive, “imaginal cells” cause all the other cells to undifferentiate toward the formation of a completely new being. Our culture is in an over-consumptive state. And amazingly, imaginal cells are forming.
The Geography of Local
Before we delve into the dilemmas associated with defining “local,”
we first need to consider whether “local” is simply about location and
distance—in other words, the tensions between the point of origin and
the point of consumption. Is “local” just about physical geography?
Culture and Horticulture: An Historical Sketch
Agriculture started about ten thousand years ago. That's a long time for
observations to accumulate and techniques to develop. It might be claimed that a
healthy agriculture is the basis of a healthy culture and healthy
culture implies a healthy agriculture.
growing heart farm CSA open for 2012
truly local hand crafted fresh veggies in manhattan and brooklyn
Two Agricultures, Not One
The way we produce food nowadays will be replaced by other ways that don't depend on mass infusions of nonrenewable resources. What makes it difficult for many people to factor them into a sense of the future is that the alternative methods don't look like industrial agriculture at all.
Biochar: An Introduction
A very old technology — the production of
charcoal — in the hands of farmers throughout the world could become a major
player in the struggle to avoid the worst effects of global warming.
