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Study offers clue to increased anxiety, stress, autism, bipolar disorder, and obesity in humans over the past thirty years.
The Australian Gillard Labor Government has mounted a $36.1 million TV advertisement campaign to promote its latest hand-outs to poor or middle income Australians - but it doesn't mention that these are actually compensation for their newly-imposed Carbon Tax. i.e. taking with on …
Wandering physically and mentally as I do I've observed a lot of lawns in my time. Now I like grass a whole lot better than asphalt or concrete, but it seems like many homeowners have perverted lawns. You see people mowing them, applying weed and feed products, and watering (oft …
Mad cow disease is linked to about 225 cases worldwide of a fatal human brain aliment known as variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. The first American case of mad cow disease since 2006 was found this week in a dairy cow in California.
“The beef and dairy in the Am …
Invoking the spirit of international peasant farmer movements La Via Campesina and Brazil's Movimento Sem Terra, hundreds of people entered a five-acre plot of land at the Berkeley/Albany border on Sunday April 22, in one of this spring's first high-profile actions of the Occup …
What is Permaculture?
Permaculture is a holistic design philosophy and the art and science of creating community eco-systems in which plants, animals, human beings, and all forms of ecological diversity interact to produce a prolific, ecologically-sound, and regenerative system that can support itself and life indefinitely. The focus of permaculture is to design and establish societal systems that provide for humanity’s material and non-material needs such as food, water, shelter, energy, and health in a way that is symbiotic and synergistic with the Earth’s natural ecosystems. More recently permaculture is incorporating an ever-growing landscape of diverse fields and skill sets and is being applied towards areas such as business, government, economics, group process, social systems, inner work, and spiritual practice.