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One of the feeding the city series of articles, this one focuses on Detroit. This is the city where journalist Jerry White reported last year that the once proud Motor City where working class living standards were accelerated now has more than 40,000 vacant lots, numerous abandoned neighbourhoods and three times the poverty rate of the average American city. It's also the… Continue

This is a series of articles that profiles farmers, businesse owners and workers and agtivists who are reinventing urban food systems as this picture of Brooklyn's Eagle Street rooftop farm shows.



The series explores the many alternative food systems taking root in major cities around the US, with profiles of… Continue

I imagine that many of us aim for similar things. Say water harvesting

and recycling for example. I would like to harvest some of this rain we

are having here in Auckland for my summer watering and I really like

this range of corrugated iron tanks from Tanks Alot.

They have plastic ones too and are slim enough for those of use living on smaller sites.



I also really like the idea… Continue

while its not veges, it could be!!



Completed in April, 2004, the 5m x 4m Garden Studio is cut into a 1 in 3 hillside, self-built in autumn 2003/spring 2004, entirely in timber and entirely suspended (walls and… Continue

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This article is directly from their website

Current interview

Calculating the global warming potential potential of allotment produce

FCRN interviews Claire Carter

About the project

This project is investigating the global warming potential (GWP) of produce grown on an allotment. I will attempt to find a suitable comparative

figure to represent the UK commercial horticultural sector. This…

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Thought ooooby-ites might be interested in this site (http://cityrepair.org/) and organisation:



City Repair is an organized group action that educates and inspires communities and individuals to creatively transform the places where they live. City Repair facilitates artistic and ecologically-oriented placemaking through projects that honor the interconnection of human…

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owairaka park.pdf



This article (see pdf above because I cant seem to paste it in here)… Continue

Just thought these might be interesting to some members. They are available from Amazon (I don't get a cut or anything if you buy them!). There might be a way of purchasing them collectively even?…





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Lancet series on public health impacts of climate change mitigation policies



The medical journal, The Lancet, has published a special issue which looks at the health impacts of climate change mitigation policies in four areas: agriculture; transport; the built environment; and electricity generation. Just to clarify – the question the series papers seek to address is not ‘what would the health impacts be if greenhouse gas emissions were reduced in general?’ BUT on ‘what health… Continue

Beyond factory farming: Sustainable solutions for animals, people and the planet.

A Report by Compassion in World Farming, UK, 2009

http://www.ciwf.org.uk/images/2008/j/junglefowl.jpg

Compassion in World Farming recommends that the following approaches adopted in developed countries would enable us to create a sustainable, fair and humane animal production system by… Continue

On 11 November, Compassion in World Farming www.ciwf.org.uk and Friends of the Earth www.foe.co.uk jointly published a 20 page report called: Eating the planet? How we can feed the world without trashing it. This report is based on detailed research commissioned by the two organisations and undertaken by the Institute of Social Ecology in Austria and the Potsdam Institute for… Continue

This is the latest interview from the UK-based Food Climate Research Network, and makes for interesting reading. Looks so much better on the webpage - maybe Pete can somehow directly link to it, I have no idea how to do that. Nonetheless, here is the text:



Climate Friendly Food is a small Community Interest Company based in the beautiful countryside of Devon, the Scilly Isles and Lancashire. We are creating what we believe to be the UK's most comprehensive carbon calculator which is… Continue