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The Essential Forest-Gardener – in the end…
Robert Guyton concludes his series on life in a Riverton Food Forest.
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The Essential Forest-Gardener – reproducing the forest
Robert Guyton continues his series on life in a Riverton Food Forest.
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The Essential Forest-Gardener – the humus factor
Robert Guyton continues his series on life in a Riverton Food Forest.
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The Essential-Forest Gardener – native or exotic
Robert Guyton continues his series on life in a Riverton Food Forest, this week looking at usefulness of natives and exotics in a forest garden.
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The Essential Forest-Gardener – the trees and the heritage
Robert Guyton continues his series on life in a Riverton Food Forest.
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The Essential Forest-Gardener – “don’t destroy life”
Robert Guyton continues his series on life in a Riverton Food Forest, exploring diversity, stability and the concept of Complexity Gardening.
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The Essential Forest-Gardener – where to start
Robert Guyton continues his series on life in a Riverton Food Forest.
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The Essential Forest-Gardener – chapter 3
Robert Guyton continues his series on life in a Riverton Food Forest.
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The Essential Forest-Gardener
Robert Guyton begins a weekly series on life in a Riverton food forest.
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Local Bodies: The myth of New Zealand’s economic backbone
climate change, Debt, Economy, Environment, ETS, exports, farming, overseas investment, spin, tax, uncategorizedIf the farming sector is the ‘backbone of the economy’ then why is it that we are struggling to stand upright economically at the moment? Is it because agriculture is a economic drain on the rest of NZ. It provides 85% of our export revenue. But contributes just 5% of GDP, 5% of the workforce, and 1-3% of tax revenue – which effectively measures the profit to NZ.
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How to Fall in Love with the Future: Excerpt
“This book will lift your spirits and give you hope”
– Brian Eno
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Stand up and fight
Don’t give up. Don’t retrench into reactionary blocking politics. We have more choices for action and transition, and creating regenerative and sustainable systems, than ever before.
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What if… Dunedin no longer needed so much petrol?
It’s 2032, and we’re looking back at a decade of oil, climate and economic crisis, and how one city found a way through.
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Revisiting Riverton: the Longwood Loop food resiliency project
Key here is the resilience politics of greenies, DIYers and anarchists, where we just don’t wait for the government to act, we get on with and build the new ways ourselves.
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Post Carbon Institute: Capitalism, the Doomsday Machine (or, How to Repurpose Growth Capital)
Foundational Capital and Growth Capital, and what we should be doing with both.
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Being real about the climate emergency
Green tech, negative emissions and carbon capture and storage won’t save us, but we have other options.
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The Greens on urban farming
This is exactly the kind of approach the Green Party would like to encourage – it’s strategic, it’s intergenerational and it recognises the interconnectedness of our people, the environment and local communities.
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Drip, drip, drip…
In the middle of the Southland drought, people in Invercargill are no longer allowed to water their gardens.
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Kindness
It has been a terrible year. People should think about being kind to each other and looking after each other.
