The Virtual Water Project - Water Consumption Infographic
- via Virtual Water Project
Regenesis Ecological Design is a landscape designer and contractor based in Ashland, Oregon. We create environmentally friendly landscapes, gardens, and irrigation systems.
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31 Mar 10
-via Kiva.org.
A story of how a small loan from you can change the life of a family.
22 Mar 10
Manna Energy Project - L’Esperance Orphanage
The Story of Bottled Water (2010)
14 Mar 10
- via Infosthetics
26 Jan 10
14 Jan 10
Michael Pollan gives a plant’s-eye view
What if human consciousness isn’t the end-all and be-all of Darwinism? What if we are all just pawns in corn’s clever strategy game to rule the Earth? Author Michael Pollan asks us to see the world from a plant’s-eye view.
-via TED
14 Dec 09
13 Dec 09
Monsanto's Harvest of Fear Politics & Power: vanityfair.com
Monsanto already dominates America’s food chain with its genetically modified seeds. Now it has targeted milk production. Just as frightening as the corporation’s tactics–ruthless legal battles against small farmers–is its decades-long history of toxic contamination.
Cap and Trade and why they’ve got it all wrong. We need to be informed environmentalists, not just rooting for whatever sounds like a good idea.
12 Dec 09
30 Nov 09
This rules. Integrated housing developments with Bill Mollison. Suburbs that you’d want to live in.
Urban Gardening in NYC, with Bill Mollison
New York City’s organic waste problem, which is responsible for the destruction of 700 sq miles of ocean’s lateral area every year, may have found a solution in Urban Permaculture. This part of the video Bill Mollison tours a few of the urban gardens in NYC who transform the city’s waste into compost and use it to build up the soil as high 4 feet off of the asphalt.
25 Nov 09
"If a renovation, extension or new build is necessary, then think small and think strategic. Never confuse small with cheap. It’s better to get a budget and spend it on something small that is designed extremely well than use the same budget spread thinly over a large area that performs badly."
Andrew Maynard for Sanctuary
23 Nov 09
JEROME OSENTOWSKI of the The Central Rocky Mountain Permaculture Institute demonstrates fruit tree planting guild style.
