Saturday, August 18, 2012

30 Year Study: Organic Farming Outperforms Conventional, Chemical Farming

Based on a 30-year side-by-side trial [See full report pdf] of conventional and organic farming methods at Pennsylvania’s Rodale Institute, organic farming outperformed conventional farming in every category.

http://wakeup-world.com/2012/02/26/30-year-study-organic-farming-outperforms-conventional-chemical-farming/

Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Open Source Blueprints for Sustainability

Reinventing the world as a cooperative of self-sufficient and sustainable cities through a duplicable large-scale sustainability model and open source sharing.

http://www.onecommunityranch.org/open-source-blueprint/

Open Source Blueprints for Sustainability

Reinventing the world as a cooperative of self-sufficient and sustainable cities through a duplicable large-scale sustainability model and open source sharing.

http://www.onecommunityranch.org/open-source-blueprint/

Friday, August 3, 2012

Start Praying for Rain - Global Warming and American Drought

The United States Department of Agriculture has declared natural disaster areas in more than 1,000 counties and 26 drought-stricken states, making it the largest natural disaster in America ever.

http://blog.imva.info/agriculture/start-praying-rain

One Community Launches Our Education YouTube Channel

We've launched our One Community Education YouTube channel where we'll be posting and hosting all of our open source lesson plan examples as we continue to develop and demonstrate them. Right now the posts are all examples of the puzzles we are building into the education program, but over time we anticipate this channel to grow to 1000's of educational videos that are all going to be linked to detailed lesson plans outlined on the main www.onecommunityranch.org website.

http://www.youtube.com/user/OpenSourceEducation

Great Permaculture Resource

NodoEspiral is a company dedicated to teaching and forwarding permaculture, a method of ecological design which establishes healthy and natural systems modeled after nature. These systems are developed to create sustainable human settlements and self-perpetuating methods of agriculture as the new standard of sustainable agriculture development for human food provision.

http://www.ethosolutions.org/nodoespiral-sustainable-agriculture-development-and-permaculture-training/

Great Permaculture Resource!

NodoEspiral is a company dedicated to teaching and forwarding permaculture, a method of ecological design which establishes healthy and natural systems modeled after nature. These systems are developed to create sustainable human settlements and self-perpetuating methods of agriculture as the new standard of sustainable agriculture development for human food provision.

http://www.ethosolutions.org/nodoespiral-sustainable-agriculture-development-and-permaculture-training/

NodoEspiral | Dedicated to Permaculture Training and Teaching Sustainable Farming Methods | Ethosolutions.org

NodoEspiral | Dedicated to Permaculture Training and Teaching Sustainable Farming Methods | Ethosolutions.org

NodoEspiral is a company dedicated to teaching and forwarding permaculture, a method of ecological design which establishes healthy and natural systems modeled after nature. These systems are developed to create sustainable human settlements and self-perpetuating methods of agriculture as the new standard of sustainable agriculture development for human food provision.