Peak Oil Update – July 2009: Production Forecasts and EIA Oil Production Numbers

An update on the latest production numbers from the EIA along with graphs/charts of different oil production forecasts.

Peak Oil Update – July 2009

[theoildrum.com]

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The Handbook of Sustainability Literacy

The Handbook of Sustainability Literacy: multimedia version. Edited by Poppy Villiers-Stuart and Arran Stibbe

You can browse this online resource by chapters from the paperback, additional chapters as well as Video interviews.

In this ground-breaking book, leading sustainability educators are joined by literary critics, permaculturalists, ecologists, artists, journalists, engineers, mathematicians and philosophers in a deep reflection on the skills people need to survive and thrive in the challenging conditions of the 21st century.

The Handbook of Sustainability Literacy

[University of Brighton Faculty of Arts]

Original source of information: permaculturemagazineeditorial.blogspot.com

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Food Inc. – Full Documentary

Food inc.

In this full online Food Inc. documentary , filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on our nation’s food industry. You’ll never eat the same.

Food inc.

[Twilight Earth]

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Permaculture Credit Union

PCUonline.org

The Permaculture Credit Union pools the financial resources of people who believe in the ethics of Permaculture – care of the earth, care of people, and reinvestment of surplus for the betterment of both. We apply those resources to earth-friendly and socially responsible loans and investments.

The history of financial institutions is one of focus on the bottom line which results in overexploitation of the earth’s resources. Now, an innovative new financial institution – Permaculture Credit Union – has been established to allow its members to share their excess with other members of like mind who would use it for sustainable projects and, at the same time, take care of the Earth.

pcuonline.org

[pcuonline.org]

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Principles of Permaculture Design from David Holmgren and Bill Mollison

Permaculture principles

Principles of Permaculture Design. David Holmgren
David Holmgren is author: Permaculture Principles and Pathways beyond Sustainability.
Assembled and produced by Tracy Dee Cook and Andrew Leslie Phillips
Hancock Permaculture Center.
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Permaculture principles are brief statements or slogans – a checklist when considering the complex options for design and evolution of ecological support systems. These principles are universal, although methods that express them vary greatly according to place and situation.

Source of information

Source of image

[permaculturedesignsolutions.com]

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Sustainable Farming Presentation

Sustainable Farming

You can view and download the presentation here (.pdf, 4.13 MB). You can also download a version with smaller file size (.pdf, 2.73 MB, sans fancy background!). Let me know if you have any comments, suggestions, corrections, or questions. I’ll be happy to share original presentation in .keynote or .ppt format, just drop me a line.

Source of material

Thank you: Chinmay Soman

[sustainable-farming.blogspot.com]

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Agroforestry Research Trust Plant list

The Agroforestry Research Trust is a non-profit making charity, registered in England, which researches into temperate agroforestry and into all aspects of plant cropping and uses, with a focus on tree, shrub and perennial crops.

Useful plant list can be found here.

Thank you: Herbert PRÖHL

[Agroforestry.co.uk]

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Permaculture posters as an open source

Blocpermacultura

“Amongst many work lines we have started publishing posters as an open source. Maybe they’re useful to the permaculture community as they can be changed and used in many ways.”

Thank you: Albert Piqué

Source

[blocpermacultura.blogspot.com]

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How fungi – mushrooms – mycelium can help save the world

Fungi

Fungi or mushrooms are the fruiting body of the mycelium network.

Fungi decompose and absorb a huge variety of nutrients and elements. In doing so they produce fertile soil, naturally carry out the process of carbon capture and with there symbiotic relationships with many plants and trees also help lock even more carbon into the plant structure, by helping them grow quicker.

The mycelium spreads out through the soil and other organic materials to help breakdown and assimilate compounds. In fact mycelium grows into such an intricate network, left untouched by human intervention fungi can become the largest organisms on this planet.

read more at the source content here

[www.kaieteur.uk.com]

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Seedballs: from Fukuoka to Green Guerillas

Seedballs at Milkwood.net

The poetry of the Seedball concept is simple, yet immense. Encase a seed (or seeds) in a protective jacket of clay, creating a Seed ball. Distribute Seedballs across ground, not worrying if this day, or this month even, is the best time to ‘sow’. Protected from insects, buirds, heat and sunlight until the time is right, the seedball activates with a rain event which is sufficient to soak through the clay coating to germinate the seed. Which incidentally is the sort of rain event that you want to have directly following the perfect seed sowing day. And that’s it. But that’s not all.

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[Milkwood.net]

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