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Crowd Farming at TEDxSydney 2013

Huge respect to TEDxSydney [https://tedxsydney.com/] for doing thing properly when it comes to food. Watch the video for the inspirational story of how they fed the entire Sydney Opera House audience of 2,200 people at TEDXSydney 2013 with crowd sourced locally grown food. All conferences everywhere should

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Pam Warhurst: How we can eat our landscapes

I love Pam Warhust. She is such a inspirational, grounded and powerful woman. This is one of my favourite TED talks, by far. Please, watch and share it now. It is about the inspirational story of Incredible Edible Todmorden [https://www.incredible-edible-todmorden.co.uk/] which has now spawned the Incredible

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Edible City - Grow the Revolution

Just came across this great film: > Edible City: Grow the Revolution [https://web.archive.org/web/20200116144032/http://www.ediblecitythemovie.com:80/] is a fun, fast-paced, feature-length documentary journey through the local Good Food movement that’s taking root in the San Francisco Bay Area, across the nation and

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The London Orchard Project

I love this project. > “The London Orchard Project [https://thelondonorchardproject.org/] is a fresh initiative promoting orchards and fruit trees in London. We are working with Londoners to plant and harvest apple, pear and plum trees all over the city, and help us all to rediscover the pleasure of

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want to start a csa?

In a city? Just Food [https://justfood.org/] will help you! Here’s info on an upcoming workshop series: [https://uniteddiversity.com/?attachment_id=3934] Interested in how to get fresh, local and organic produce in New York City? Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) connects local farmers with New York City

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Biosphere Home Farming from Philips designers

See larger image here. [https://api.ning.com/files/MpSRpEHITCNAANYpqA8IBLP-fhkajigh1DLQJ*Mh2stYrPWIo5FIsVBKvw64eNt49TwbYzBu9NNHiSy7ZNoSV-1ikpDRCQOB/food2_hr.jpg] by Clive van Heerden, August 6, 2009 Looking into the economics and politics of rising food prices and theories about impending food shortages led us to create the “food farm” to test peoples sensitivity to the

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Agroforestry Found On Nearly Half The World’s Farms

For centuries, farmers have placed trees among their crops to enhance soil health, raise marketable fruits or nuts, and protect row crops from damaging winds. Yet agroforestry, as the practice is known, is generally considered a rarity among mainstream farmers. New data suggests that more farmers practice agroforestry than previously

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The Case Against Organic Food Does Not Stand Up

By Peter Melchett There really are nutritional benefits, as research to be published next year will show Ben Goldacre says the Soil Association [https://www.soilassociation.org/]‘s criticism of the recent Food Standards Agency [https://www.food.gov.uk/] research on nutrients is “not about organic food [https://www.

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The revival of homegrown urban agriculture

Commentary from Sam Rose: “Not only is urban agriculture an emerging movement for individuals, it is also being pursued as part of a sustainable urban renewal strategy throughout the midwest. Some examples include: * https://www.milwaukeerenaissance.com/SweetWaterFishFarming/HomePage Sweetwater organics Aquaponics fishfarming in Milwaukee WI * self sustaining urban food

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A Farm for the Future

This documentary from the BBC is one of the most impressive things I’ve seen on TV for a long time. Highly recommended. Wildlife film maker Rebecca Hosking investigates how to transform her family’s farm in Devon into a low energy farm for the future, and discovers that nature

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A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash

This is one of the best peak oil movies. A must see documentary.

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[rampARTannounce] two square meals

Last Friday the rampART was used by locals to celebrate EID which marks the end of Ramadan. In Islam, believers are called upon to cease all consumption of food and drink between the hours of daylight for 30 consecutive days. Meanwhile, todays date, October 16th, is celebrated by the Food

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The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil

This is one of the best videos about Peak Oil because rather than focussing on the potential doom and gloom, it shows how communities can work together to implement solutions 🙂 Watch it now!

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The Permaculture Concept

Check out this video will Bill Mollison, co-founder of the Permaculture concept, explaining The Permaculture Concept… On google video As a youtube playlist

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Crude Impact

Another great film about Peak Oil and the impact of oil on society. The player below includes all 9 parts as a youtube playlist 🙂 For more info check out https://www.crudeimpact.com/

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The End of Suburbia

Another “must see” documentary for all you folks out there. We’ve screened this one too 🙂 (PS – this is a 52 minute edit of the original 78 minute full length version available on DVD from https://www.endofsuburbia.com/ ) And here it is in not so good quality but with

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Transition Towns

So, we’re both a day late, but Gloria [https://wisdomplease.blogspot.com] and I somehow decided that every day in May was going to be inspirational! Each day Gloria will a post about an inspirational person [https://wisdomplease.blogspot.com/search/label/Inspirational%20People%20Month], and I’ll highlight

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David Korten – The Great Turning

Last night, when I should’ve been asleep, I watched these video clips and was left totally inspired. 🙂 I strongly encourage you to watch them too. Its great stuff! You should also buy the book: [amtap book:isbn=1887208070] UPDATE: The book in bullet points from David Korten [https://davidkorten.

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The Future of Food

An important documentary about GM food and Monsanto. (sadly no longer available in full on google video, so here is an intro from youtube) As Celsias [https://www.celsias.com/blog/] put it, “this is a must-watch for anyone who eats (um… yes, that means you).” > “There is a

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Supermarket Secrets

via Celsias [https://www.celsias.com/blog/2007/03/15/supermarket-secrets/]… An excellent two part Dispatches documentary on Supermarkets Secrets. Well worth watching. The amount of waste is crazy. And the way the animals most people eat are bred and treated is neither nice nor healthy. > “How and what