Month February 2007

The engine of eco collapse

Jared Diamond ignores his own lessons In Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, Pulitzer Prize winning author Jared Diamond has given us a provocative and fascinating history lesson in what could happen to our society, should we fail…

Doors of Perception 9 – Juice

“Global food systems are an extreme example of wasteful economic activities that represent the downside of globalisation. The transport, processing. packaging and distribution of food consumes ten times more energy than enters our bodies as nutrition. We have to fix…

Arrested for videoing police, and acquitted

Francisco Avecedo Jr. led an immigration rights march at his high school last May in West Hartford CT. In June, during the school’s annual pranks day, police were called, and he got arrested videoing the police arresting another student. Like…

Niger farmers reclaim barren wasteland

Working on their own with no outside aid, farmers in Niger have made huge areas of land productive again by simple techniques. They stopped cutting down tree sprouts in the fields when preparing for harvests, sowing the crops between the…