Ecological Engineering Modeled on Nature: Geoff Lawton at TEDxMission TheCity2.0. Five Reasons Why Urban Farming is the Most Important Movement of our Time | Environment on GOOD. I love suburbia not for what it is, but for what it could be. While most other houses on my street have grass lawns, my yard sprouts zucchinis, tomatoes, pomegranates, kale, spinach, apples, figs, guavas, almonds, garlic, onion, strawberries, and more. Over 500 plant species all in all. We grow more than 3000 pounds of food per year on a plot of land the size of a basketball court—enough fruits and vegetables to feed my family of four year-round. Our house is part of a growing global movement of people involved in urban farming. The simple act of planting a garden can shape issues like economics, health, and politics at the same time because food is an essential focal point of human activity. As the urban farming movement grows, here are five ways that it will transform our world 1. In my own community, the urban farming movement has reinvigorated local commerce. 2. 3. 4. 5.
The most important movement of our time. Imagine if we grew food instead of grass. UN Demands Obama Smash State Marijuana Legalization. Ted Trainer and the Simpler Way Permaculture Research Institute. Editor’s Note: To follow, I think, is a very important look at Ted Trainer’s work — one that broaches an oft-avoided but critically essential conversation. I must confess to only having read a single article from Ted Trainer previously, which I posted here, but from that article, and the document below, I sense that similar thought processes in my own experience, and Ted’s, have led to the similar conclusions. Some of my thoughts along similar lines are evidenced here, here, here, here, here, here and here, as a few of many examples. In short, permaculture must be taken to mean ‘permanent culture’, and not just ‘permanent agriculture’ (as some would have it, as evidenced by the wrath I endure whenever we discuss economics and politics on this site…).
And, for those interested, in regards to the ‘debate’ between Ted, Rob Hopkins and Brian Davey (see section 6), I empathise and agree with each perspective, as it happens. 1. 2. 3. The problems do not, however, end there. 4. 4.1. 4.2. 5. Jamie Oliver's TED Prize wish: Teach every child about food.