food

Simple Solutions for Sustainable Living

A community of active citizens is forming in BíoBío, connecting and collaborating for the transition of the region. Over the weekend 5-6 of July they put on a show; Expostsismo 2, the second feria for sustainable reconstruction post February 27th earthquake.

Almost 600 people attended the two day event in Chillan-Viejo, content to have connected to local people with simple solutions at hand. Everyone is reminded that sustainability is not a distant goal, nor something terribly complex and difficult, but starts in humble acts of responsibility, at the centre of sustainable economies; the household. If many people can make a small contribution starting at theif own front door, a wave of change arises.

Design for Resilient Human Settlements

This is the second story from the learning process in Millenrama. You can read the first here.

The week 5-9th of May 2010 team El Manzano was hosted in Millenrama, Mantagua, 5th region to run an Applied Permaculture Design course.
As El Manzano tests ideas for assisting people and communities to engage in transition and design for resilient human settlements, the team develops competency in the delivery of catalytic learning events, in facilitation and leadership by design. As the experience is reviewed once again it is confirmed that there is no power equal to a community deciding what it will become.

New thinking about what we´re eating

FRESH is more than a movie, it’s a gateway to action. Our aim is to help grow FRESH food, ideas, and become active participant in an exciting, vibrant, and fast-growing movement.

Helping the First World Reduce its Ecological Footprint

While Vandana Shiva was in Berlin recently promoting her book ‘Soil Not Oil’, Andreas Teuchert and Thomas Finger of Transition Berlin, who were filming the event, spontaneously asked her for her thoughts on what the Transition Towns movement could do that is of real use for people in the global south.

She said that “the most important pressure the people in the south face is the grabbing of their resources to feed a consumer machinery in the north.” She points out that while there are a number of products that the north can’t provide such as spices, coffee and cotton, fresh vegetables are the reason that poor peasants are losing their land.

An interview with Masanobu Fukuoka, by Robert and Diane Gilman

One of the articles in Sustainable Habitat (IC#14)

Autumn 1986, Page 37
Copyright (c)1986, 1997 by Context Institute | To order this issue ...

Masanobu Fukuoka is another of the major pioneers of sustainable agriculture who came to the 2nd International Permaculture Conference. We spoke with him a few days before the conference while he was visiting the Abundant Life Seed Foundation in Port Townsend, Washington.

PIEZA CLAVE DEL DESARROLLO - Por Jorge Carrión

La comida es una pieza clave en el desarrollo y permanencia de la especie humana sobre la Pachamama; a menos que algún día seamos capaces de comernos las máquinas, el cemento, la angustia y la desesperación… o bien el etanol o el biodiesel, y poder seguir trabajando duro para alguna vez poder dejar de ser llamados tercermundistas. Es curioso el camino hacia el primer mundo, ya que mientras más “avanzamos” hacia él,  más nos alejamos de la esencia, de lo que nos permite seguir día a día, la lucha hacia algo que poco a poco cae por nuestro lado, mientras subimos esta escalera. La tranquilidad, la esperanza y la motivación que entrega la tierra por medio de sus alimentos. La vitalidad, la salud y la fuerza de para poder desarrollarnos nada más que como seres humanos.

Por Sofia Merino

New Initiative Places Food at the Centre of Healthcare Revolution

START AT YOUR BACK DOOR AND WORK OUTWARDS

This weekend workshop is designed to support the student to understand the principles and practice of bio-construction and intensive food gardens. You will have the opportunity to learn simple theory, to work on a straw bale house, and to implement an organic garden. Join us on a tour of four design sites for survey and analysis on Sunday and Monday.

DONT PUT ALL YOUR EGGS IN ONE BASKET

A weekend of simple theory and hands on practical for observing and designing for climate, understanding the biosphere major plant communities and how to use plants for creating resilient homes and gardens. Students will have the opportunity to work with experienced Agronomists and Designers.