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Apr 30, 2013
by Mark Watson, Transition Norwich blog
Growing plants, particularly for food, and particularly in community, is a big part of the Transition experience and ethos. Many people in transition are active permaculturists. At the very least, most of us want to eat plants grown organically from good seed.
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Apr 5, 2013
by Resilience.org Staff, Resilience.org
• An interesting post from Riverford’s Guy Watson about climate change and crops
• Hobby gardeners boost backyard biodiversity
• Huge scale of California pollination event
• Proposed law could deliver huge boost to urban agriculture in California
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Mar 8, 2013
by Fred Pearce, Yale Environment 360
Researchers have discovered a significant flaw in large swaths of ecological research into the impact of logging on tropical forests: Scientists have been dramatically overestimating the damage done by loggers, skewing conservation strategies paid for by the donations of millions of …
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Feb 14, 2013
by Resilience.org Staff, Resilience.org
•Report questions long-term productivity of gas wells in Barnett Shale•Town Sued After Barring Debate on Gas Extraction at Meetings•PwC: Shale oil surge poses threat to renewables•Gas company targets protected Manú park in Peruvian Amazon•NY fracking decision …
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Jan 14, 2013
by Jason Heppenstall, 22 Billion Energy Slaves
A few weeks before I left, John Michael Greer published a fictional story about America losing its hegemonic grip entitled How it could Happen. The opening...focused on a proxy war between China and the US in east Africa over oil rights following a discovery in Tanzania...I was on the lookout …
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Nov 22, 2012
by Sandra Postel, National Geographic Newswatch
Today, the United States and Mexico signed a landmark agreement that will return vital flows to the lower Colorado River and its once-bountiful Delta and reconnect the river to its final destination, the Gulf of California.
