The TeleGarden was an art installation that allows web users to view and interact with a remote garden filled with living plants. Members can plant, water, and monitor the progress of seedlings via the tender movements of an industrial robot arm.
More: Networked Robotics
Regenerative and perennial farming practices can sequester carbon to fight climate change while providing many additional benefits to people and the environment. From an Eric Toensmeier keynote at the 2011 Northeast Organic Farming Association (NOFA) Summer Conference.
Carbon Farming 2: Potential Impact
Carbon Farming 3: Annual Systems
Carbon Farming 4 Regenerative Livestock Systems
Carbon Farming 5: Perennial Farming Systems
Carbon Farming 6: Perennial Staple Crops
Carbon Farming 7: Movement Building
Lisa Heenan interviews renowned Permaculture Designer & RegenAG (www.RegenAG.com) founder Darren J. Doherty asking what makes his Permaculture Design Courses so different to others & why this upcoming course in Athens, Greece in September 2011 is worth attending…
Sarah Van Gelder Keynote at WWFOR Seabeck 2011 Retreat, “Toward a Fair, Sustainable Global Economy”. Sarah van Gelder As co-founder and executive editor of YES!, Sarah leads the framing and development of each issue of YES! and writes a column introducing each issue. She writes for Huffington Post and speaks on leading-edge innovations that show that another world is not only possible, it is being created. Topics she has covered include the new economy, solutions to climate change, alternatives to prisons, food, water, nuclear disarmament and active peacemaking, education for a better world, beyond the superpower and happiness.
As the first printing of the Permaculture Designer’s manual was going out, a revolution in soil science was emerging. Unfortunately, that revolution was destined to be swept under the rug.
Until now! Dr. Elaine Ingham is coming to the Bay!
http://www.vimeo.com/26017654Elaine is being hosted by Sweet Soil in San Rafael to teach a 5-day Soil Food Web intensive July 11-15 … there are still a few spots available. Sign up here for all or part.
If you’re not familiar with her work, watch this excerpt on the necessity and function of the Soil Food Web:
http://www.vimeo.com/26028628
Via Punk Rock Permaculture “Ellen Page Talks documentary “Vanishing of the Bees” on Bill Maher”
http://www.vimeo.com/16570483At last month’s SXSW film festival in Austin one of the highlights was Ellen Page’s superb performance in the new comics superhero indie movie Super. Not stopping for a moment to bask in the stellar reviews, Page is now promoting the documentary Vanishing of the Bees and went on Bill Maher’s HBO show last week to alert people to the serious problems that Colony Collapse Disorder creates for our food supply
The documentary film, Vanishing of the Bees, narrated by Ellen Page, takes a piercing investigative look at the economic, political and ecological implications of the worldwide disappearance of the honeybee. Directors George Langworthy and Maryam Henein present not just a story about the mysterious phenomenon known as Colony Collapse Disorder, but a platform of solutions, encouraging audiences to be the change they want to see in the world.
Activist to Grassroots – Tony Andersen Klimaforum co-founder
In Activists to Grassroots, Tony discusses how activists need to start working with grassroots and create a new hybrid radical activist-grassroots persona.
http://www.vimeo.com/14431560Tony Andersen, co-founder of the Danish civil-society climate justice conference, Klimaforum, gave two talks at Klimaforum09: Activist to Grassroots, and 10 000 Trees: A Practical Strategy for Climate Change.
Tony Andersen, Klimaforum co-founder, gives a presentation and workshop at Klimaforum09 in Copenhagen, December 2009 during the COP15 climate circus.
- THE 1 TON CO2 10.000 TREES PROJECT – overview of the problem and the solution
- Permaculture – the idea, practice and global and local success
- Climate Change – the massive catastrophic problem
- Carbon sink – a new category for locking, permanently ecology as carbon sinks in forest and soil
- More than 10,000 TREES per. person per. lifetime – a requirement for local-global perennial polycultural replanting
- Less than 1 TON CO2 pr. person pr. year – global energy descent and emissions reductions targets
- The U.N. Climate Conference 2009 / COP 15- the failure of the official process, danger of carbon finance
- Parallel activist and grassroots Conference – Klimaforum as user-centered permaculture design
- The Permaculture network – massively expanding a global, democratic, locally-controlled permaculture network
http://permaculture.tv/save-the-planet-with-permaculture-tony-andersen-of-klimaforum09/
http://gaiapermaculture.com/projects/permaculturecooperative/blog/2009/11/20/klimaforum09-mandate-spectrum-of-coverage/
http://permaculture.tv/10-000-trees-climate-justice/
http://permaculture.tv/?s=tony+andersen
http://permaculture.tv/?s=klimaforum
http://permaculture.tv/permaculture-international-pioneers-klimaforum09/
After the runaway success of the first London Permaculture Festival in 2010, the second will take place on Sat 16th July 2011 back at Cecil Sharp House in Camden, NW1. £4 admission (£3 concessions)
“The importance of Vijay Prashad’s book, The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World, lies in its ability to trace the trajectory of the “Third World Project” – its genesis, growth and crisis – amidst the cacophonous range of local political economic structures and their varied articulation with global capitalism and the metropolitan world. The book shows us that beyond the simplistic orientalist image of the Global South as just being on the receiving end and reactive, there has existed definite protagonism with all its contradictions grounded in the peoples’ struggle against domination, oppression and exploitation. The following discussion with the author of The Darker Nations is an attempt to retrieve some of the salient insights in this formidable work.” Quote from Radical Notes, via Z
Video from Press TV
Text via Radical Notes, Z
Radical Notes (RN): First of all, hearty congratulations to you from Radical Notes for having authored a masterly work on the history of peoples (and their interactions) less traveled to, and much less talked about. But how necessary do you think is it to write a history of peoples still alive? Considering that the developing world is still at a developing phase, will writing a history amount to writing off of some reverberating presence of the old elements?
Vijay Prashad: Thanks for asking me to do this. I appreciate it.
The book is a history of the Third World project. It is this project’s development that I trace from the 1920s to the 1980s. A wide range of initiatives came together in a relatively coherent platform of demands that was pushed at various United Nations and international forums. That project was assassinated in the 1980s by a combination of the exhaustion of the way the various regimes operated in their societies, by the debt crisis (itself a product of a newly confident financial capitalism), the collapse of the Soviet Union, etc. The people who live in the societies that once adopted the Third World project of course live on, and certainly they are making history. But not on the same platform as they once were.
Source: Z
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