Month: November 2009
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Please consider signing the hunger petition by the United Nations FAO (Food and Agricultural Organization)
Please consider signing the hunger petition by the United Nations FAO (Food and Agricultural Organization), which they will show to government delegates at their big Food Security conference next week 16-18 November 2009. Petition: http://www.1billionhungry.org/ Info on Food Security conference: http://www.fao.org/wsfs/world-summit The director of FAO is also calling for people to hunger strike, i.e., fast…
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See Edward Burtynsky’s pictures of the impact of oil on our Earth
See Edward Burtynsky’s pictures of the impact of oil on our Earth by clicking on the picture above. I also recommend Edward’s TED talk on why he felt compelled to produced these photographs Thanks to Rob Hopkins for the links.
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All back issues of the In-time(s) now available to read on-screen
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Updates to Units of Trust with Slow money
One thing I just realised about the UNITS OF TRUST scheme that I have been promoting, and am working on here in Sweden, is that is promotes the idea of slow money. One way of thinking about resilience in the local economy is to consider the Permaculture approach where the idea is to slow down…
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Grey water recycling imagestream
I have seen several experiments carried out where vegetable beds clean grey water. I was curious to see if I could imagestream a good way of doing this so I could experiment myself on the Eco-unit. <more links> I felt I needed clues as to how I could move forward. I tried to frame my…