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Permaculture is a forward-thinking design system based on principles found in nature. Its purpose is to create living environments that are harmonious, sustainable and productive; while greatly reducing the work and energy required to maintain them. At its core are the ethical principles of earth care, people care and fair shares.
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July 9 – 20, 2013. Highland, Scotland. This holistic approach towards permaculture is a completely new combination. It reflects the pioneering permaculture vision that Earth Ways has developed over the years. Delete the scoop?
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July 9 – 20, 2013. Highland, Scotland. This holistic approach towards permaculture is a completely new combination. It reflects the pioneering permaculture vision that Earth Ways has developed over the years. Delete the scoop?
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Researchers show that plants can communicate the need to protect themselves from attack by aphids by making use of an underground network of fungi. 
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May 10, 4:14 PM
Plants have to be among the most fascinating and yet least understood life-forms on Earth. We find symbiotic relationships at every turn. Truly amazing. Delete the scoop?
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A middle-school experiment using fruit flies and organic foods has won publication in a national scientific journal and spurred a debate about the relative benefits of organic eating. Delete the scoop?
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As the toxic trappings of industrial civilization crumble around us, agriculture is set to regain its place at the forefront of our daily American lives. …And won’t we be surprised to find out that it barely works anymore! Delete the scoop?
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Stanford University scientists Paul and Anne Ehrlich have issued a report titled "Can a Collapse of Global Civilization be Avoided?" in the Jan. Delete the scoop?
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Farmers who have watched helplessly as a mysterious disease wiped out millions of domesticated bees needed to pollinate their almonds, apples and other crops may have an easy solution: make their crops more accessible to wild insects that do the... Delete the scoop?
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Police release details of one of the biggest raids on suspected illegal timber operations ever undertaken in Latin America Delete the scoop?
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John Vidal: In a village in India's poorest state, farmers are growing world record amounts of rice – with no GM or herbicide. Is this a solution to world food shortages? Delete the scoop?
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Most people are completely shocked when they find out we don't own a rototiller...and never will. The most common misconception about a rototiller is that they save time - and that you need one in... Delete the scoop?
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Caroline Lucas: It would be a folly to think that there is no hope of tackling climate change without nuclear power Delete the scoop?
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Don't believe the hype: GM is in the grip of a few firms that profit from selling the chemicals they engineer their seeds to resist Delete the scoop?
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Domestic cats in the United States kill billions of birds and mammals a year, according to a new report, a rate that is much higher than previous estimates. Delete the scoop?
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A new interactive project from Google, NASA and the US Geological Survey. Delete the scoop?
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Are people good? Is humankind basically benign? Delete the scoop?
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Scientists from Sweden have found a majority of carbon sequestration is due to fungi and not trees as originally thought. Delete the scoop?
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A leaked study examining genetically-modified corn reveals that the lab-made alternative to organic crops contains a startling level of toxic chemicals. 
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April 19, 5:34 AM
read your blog post. I didn't follow the link you post on there.
Lets for one minute assume that you are 100% correct in this assesment that this is an ad for cow shit. I question your motives how ever. You say that GMO isn't going to hurt you and you base your scientific argument on the fact that the article above is false, therefor GMO is safe? Who are you? Who do you work for? Delete the scoop?
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Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed: The link between intensifying inequality, debt, climate change, fossil fuel dependency and the global food crisis is undeniable Delete the scoop?
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The number of species found at a "lost world'' of wildlife near Loch Ness nears 3,000. Delete the scoop?
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Farmer Jeremiah “Jerry” Cunningham’s neighbors are talking. Not just because his ponds fill and drain better than theirs, or because he can walk across his field without mud clumping on his boots. It’s his compost tea. 
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February 25, 6:49 AM
My soil is so well flocculated that it is like a thatched roof. It allows a clump of my silver-tipped bluestem grass to have as much as 25 miles of root system, and for every 25 miles of root system, it probably has 50 miles of mycelia or fungi that bring nutrients to that grass. I feed the microorganisms compost tea, which I learned how to make when I studied with Elaine Ingham from the University of Oregon, and now scientific director at Rodale Institute. She built on the work of Sir Albert Howard, the father of organic farming, from the U.K. I have two 250-gallon tanks in a special barn called the Tea Barn. I pull out the protozoa and the fungi, all of the biology out of the compost into a solution, just like making tea, then spray that all over my pasture. I did that four times a year for seven years, believing that was the way to a healthy farm, and it was. Now we only have to spray compost tea every other year. Delete the scoop?
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This marks the most complex of the year long mural tour of MEAR ONE. Keeping in line with the stream of thought carried throughout the subject matter of each... Delete the scoop?
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When I decided to try and compile a list of freecycling sites, I inevitably turned to the good people out there in social media land for their recommendations and ideas, and I was posted links to l... Delete the scoop?
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Poet, writer, activist Eve Ensler lived in her head. In this powerful talk from TEDWomen, she talks about her lifelong disconnection from her body -- and how two shocking events helped her to connect with the reality, the physicality of being human.
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Warning: Don't watch this TED talk if you prefer to be asleep 
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February 5, 5:25 PM
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