This is a youtube series. (10 episodes altogether) This is profound and very valuable info… [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=523bXlK5t34[/youtube]
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Dirt! The Movie – That's a title, ain't it!…
August 25, 2009 – 4:06 pm
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKPcuwOOGqY&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] http://www.dirtthemovie.org/
EU fördert Großkonzerne statt kleine Bauern
June 17, 2009 – 11:06 pm
Nochmal ein paar Fakten aus dem ‘Real Life’…Heute in der Süddeutschen: ‘…Die Agrarsubventionen fließen an Zucker-, Fleisch- und Stärkefabriken, aber auch an Firmen wie RWE und Lufthansa. Nach monatelangem Streit haben die Bundesländer am Dienstag die Empfänger der EU-Agrarsubventionen in Deutschland veröffentlicht – nur Bayern hält seine Daten weiter zurück. Mehr als sechs Milliarden Euro [...]
Permaculture as a Necessity
May 1, 2009 – 8:08 pm
I recently found this article, and i would like to share it. It originally was published on youthradio.org. Palestinians Regard Permaculture As A Necessity, Not A Choice By Nora Barrows-Friedman Back in my hometown of Berkeley, California, the practice of permaculture is associated within a feel-good, hippie-elite framework. It’s a choice, just like buying locally [...]
Bringing People Back into the Economy
April 25, 2009 – 9:04 pm
With Soil Not Oil, Vandana Shiva connects the dots between industrial agriculture and climate change. Shiva shows that a world beyond dependence on fossil fuels and globalization is both possible and necessary. read an excerpt!
The Future of Food
March 13, 2009 – 10:57 pm
Bueno, yet another movie. Hope it makes you angry (the movie, I mean…) ‘THE FUTURE OF FOOD examines the complex web of market and political forces that are changing what we eat as huge multinational corporations seek to control the world’s food system.’ – keep on watching the other parts… [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUwFPSDvB7I[/youtube] You might also want [...]
A farm for the future
March 9, 2009 – 10:26 pm
I just found this very accessible and calm film made for the BBC. It provides a lot of information on our current food system and on possible alternative low energy farming. However, this different approach will require a change of habits we have (like plowing the fields and having our food being based on cereal [...]
To make it happen takes personal commitmen
January 19, 2009 – 2:24 pm
“I still feel that with human transformation, the power to reach deep within to make change, it is really the arts and culture which carry that power. And therefore even though I am not an artist and I’m not from theatre, I have a very, very deep respect for what the arts can do.” read [...]
GMO – und sie machen einfach weiter…
December 24, 2008 – 2:33 pm
‘Die EU-Kommission hat am 4.12.08 den Import der Gen-Soja Roundup Ready II (MON89788-1) als Futter- und Lebensmittel genehmigt. Dies ausgerechnet an dem Tag, an dem der Ministerrat in Brüssel über ein verbessertes, schärferes Zulassungsverfahren für Gen-Pflanzen abstimmt…’ (greenpeace.de) Aufwendige GVO-Kontrollen für Sojaimporte aus den USA entfallen nun nach der Zulassung in der EU. EU-Gesundheitskommissarin Androulla [...]
Permaculture – A valuable lesson for farmers of the 21st century
November 20, 2008 – 3:13 pm
‘We’ve got multiple products coming from different production systems and over the years there has been a tremendous amount of insulation against variations in the market. In that sense I think that permaculture’s got a very valuable lesson for farmers in the 21st century.’ Rod May, one of Australia’s most succesful and prominent organic farmers [...]
