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I recently posted some great videos on how to grow food in a forest garden—a type of garden design that mimics early-stage natural woodlands by utilizing a diversity of useful plants, focusing on largely perennial food crops, and growing in several "storeys", including canopy, shrubs and understorey plants. We have, of course, also posted on Read the full story on TreeHugger
The epic drought conditions in the Horn of Africa and East Africa that first began coming to light about ten days ago continue to intensify, with what are in effect climate refugees streaming into parts of Somalia and Kenya.
In northern Kenya, the refugee camp at Daadab has 1,500 new people per day are arriving CARE reports. In the south-eastern part of Ethiopia a new refugee camp at Kobe, just opened a few weeks ago, the third in the regio...Read the full story on TreeHugger
A United Nations report has once again stressed that the key to increasing food production so that the world's coming nine billion people can be fed without increasing climate change and further reducing biodiversity, is small-scale sustainable agriculture. Doing so will also increase global food security, essential to poverty reduction. ...Read the full story on TreeHugger
A United Nations report has once again stressed that the key to increasing food production so that the world's coming nine billion people can be fed without increasing climate change and further reducing biodiversity, is small-scale sustainable agriculture. Doing so will also increase global food security, essential to poverty reduction. ...Read the full story on TreeHugger
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When I posted an interview with wind energy pioneer Dale Vince, one Facebook commenter took issue with my references to his "hippie dropout" past, and the fact that he is now on Britain's rich list. The idea that we should be impressed by how his "...Read the full story on TreeHugger
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