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We’re trained to be productive. We have to put food on the table. Who can afford the time and money to be creative, especially with all that daydreaming involved, that pointless wandering around? We’re...
View ArticleBlueprint for P2P Society: The Partner State & Ethical Economy
A new way to produce is emerging. By this I mean: a new way to produce anything and everything, whether it is software, food, or cities. What once required rigid organisations and a society defined by...
View ArticleRio+20: Fiddling While Earth Burns
UN and USA technocrats must listen to the small-scale and indigenous farmers of the world! Large scale biotech industrial food production and destruction of our oceans, land and our forests (and all...
View ArticleWhat took 10,000 years to Build and only 50 years to Destroy?
Here’s a line of thinking I found that was useful. You might find it useful too. 1. Food security starts with successfully growing something you can actually eat. It progresses as you get more...
View ArticleRio Plus 20: What Prospects for the Next UN Mega-Conference?
There is growing global sentiment that the era of grand multilateral treaty-making is over. Recurrent disputes over burden-sharing, and the specter of national vetoes, tends to tie negotiators into...
View ArticleThe Lexicon of Sustainability
Our earliest descendants were hunter/gatherers who foraged for their food, were in tune with their surroundings, and ate with the seasons. After foraging was essentially replaced by agriculture, people...
View ArticleGive a seed. Grow a community. Empower Africa!
This is the new project I’m planting my self into. Please help. – @ddrrnt We’re raising $20k to help rural communities in Zambia grow moringa crops so they can earn money and improve their nutrition....
View ArticleAn economy that serves people and nature, not the other way around
Snippets from Christine Milne’s speech at the National Press Club in Canberra. 26 Sep 2012 “The economy is a tool; a tool we humans invented – like democracy and politics – to help govern our...
View ArticleNew York City Farm and Culinary Hotel Concept | Urban Gardens
See on Scoop.it – Arrival Cities The Allotment, a hotel whose culinary focus makes growing and cooking food the fundamental ingredient of the guest experience. A “grow, teach, eat, and share” idea...
View ArticleDrones for dummies
See on Scoop.it – Rise of the Drones If you’ve checked out the news these past few (or many) months, you’ve probably noticed some news about drones: Drones used by the CIA to vaporize suspected...
View ArticleCultivating a Better Food Production System
See on Scoop.it – Arrival Cities Written by the founders of Food Tank; 13 resolutions for changing the food production system. Growing in Cities: Food production doesn’t only happen in fields or...
View ArticleRon Finley: A guerilla gardener in South Central LA
See on Scoop.it – Arrival Cities Ron Finley plants vegetable gardens in South Central LA — in abandoned lots, traffic medians, along the curbs. Why? For fun, for defiance, for beauty and to offer some...
View ArticleCooperatives as Business Models of the Future
See on Scoop.it – Arrival Cities Cooperatives as Business Models of the Future – When the International Year of Cooperatives (IYC) concluded last week, some of the overwhelming success stories...
View ArticleDoes your job involve 'dirty work'?
"Everett Hughes (1951) invoked the term dirty work to refer to tasks and occupations that are likely to be perceived as disgusting or degrading. Hughes (1962) observed that society delegates dirty work...
View ArticleIs Solylent the Future of Food?
Rob Rhinehart has crowdfunded the production of something called Soylent, which he describes in the pitch video as “an efficient form of fuel for humanity for the first time in history.” Soylent is a...
View ArticleIt’s Time for Flying Robots: Making unmanned aerial vehicles operational
See on Scoop.it – Rise of the Drones avvy business executives are always looking for opportunities to reduce costs, mitigate safety risks, boost production and improve competitiveness. Increasingly,...
View ArticleFiber Shield – Food Components Influence Bacterial Pathology of Crohn’s...
Amplify’d from www.medscape.com The translocation of Escherichia coli across M (microfold) cells and Peyer’s patches in Crohn’s disease is inhibited by plant fiber but increases with low concentrations...
View ArticleBetter Choices – When motivation and opportunity marry
Amplify’d from www.conversationagent.com [10Feb11] The modern food system wraps around personal convenience, which isolates individuals from better choices by masking or crowding out collective...
View ArticleRemembering Revolutionary Media
The movement in Egypt was said to be “very dependent on Facebook,” according to an Egyptian blogger and activist Alaa Abd El Fattah who was quoted in the Washington Post. Fueled by the anger over high...
View ArticleAn economy that serves people and nature, not the other way around | Greens MPs
Snippets from Christine Milne’s speech at the National Press Club in Canberra. 26 Sep 2012 “The economy is a tool; a tool we humans invented – like democracy and politics – to help govern our...
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