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The natural world is under attack. Our global economy & corporate capitalist system is destroying the planetary eco system at a pace that few of us can comprehend. Old growth forests are all but gone. The oceans are dying, choked with human-made poisons a
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Cooking with the Sun
The Solar Cooking Archive has collected a large array of various solar cooker designs. They’re low-tech, can be built easily out of fairly common waste from industrial civilisation, and can cook...
Ceramic and Rocket Stoves – more heat for less wood
Ceramic Stoves (example of a Ceramic Stove), or Kakkelovn, were first designed in Scandinavia in 1767, and have been a feature of homes and palaces ever since. Using some ingenious designing, a fairl...
The Responsibility of Complexity
Having just spent a slow-paced week in the woods learning the basics of the art of bushcraft, the return to civilisation has been somewhat disorientating. Many things bothered my mind on my return, ...
sustainable food - lecture videos
Videos from the Urban Homesteaders. Part One: Part Two: Part Three: Part Four: Share This...
doing more with less
Inspiration from the urban homesteaders. With headlines about rising food costs, soaring gas prices, and skyrocketing foreclosure rates that reach directly into everyone’s wallets, as well as soberi...
what have you done today towards food and energy independence?
Sharon Astyk has inspired many people to think about and work towards food and energy independence. Most of us have so much to learn, having been raised from supermarkets and the global economy. Sharo...
practical permaculture in Britain
Part One: Part Two: Part Three: Part Four: Part Five: Part Six: Share This...
eat the weeds
Green Dean has a whole series on YouTUBE, and his own blog website. Very interesting. Share This...
rice on the roof - how to use grey water for growing paddy
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independence days challenge
What are you doing towards making yourself food independent? I challenge myself and all of you to work on creating food Independence Days this year - that all of us try to do one thing every day to ...
how much food can i grow around my house?
And what about you? How much food can you grow around your house? Peak Moment TV. Share This...
seed banking
As the world’s seed supply is increasingly owned by multinational companies, farmers and gardeners are losing control of the seeds available to them. Vegetable varieties that were valued for their s...
urban homesteaders
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the humanure handbook
The flush toilet is probably one of the stupidest ideas that civilisation has ever come up with. Instead of a valuable resource, human waste is now deemed a ‘waste product’ It is mixed wi...
Russia to become a nation of ecovillages?
By William Kotke, reprinted from Truth to Power Vladimir Putin has indicated full support of Dmitriy Medvedev for the post of President of the Russian Federation. Medvedev, who is presently First Dep...
