Monthly Archives: November 2007

Powerdown Roundup

It has been a busy few weeks and I only now have a chance to catch up by reporting on a few events I have attended over the last few weeks. On November 8th and 9th I presented an introduction … Continue reading

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Wild Food

In the mid-term break a few weeks ago some of the permaculture students joined me and the amazing Simone for a wild food day in Glengariff. *Right: Simone shows us how to collect a wild salad After meeting in the … Continue reading

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The Great Magic Water Conference

Anatomy of a Scam A few years ago I attended an extraordinary event in Co. Monaghan which I still refer to as “The great magic Water Conference”. Organised by local environmentalists to promote the “discoveries” of an outfit called Perfect … Continue reading

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Bursting point: The World’s Unsustainable Population

Bursting point: the world’s unsustainable population from the latest edition of Sustainability Magazine by Graham Strouts www.zone5.org “It is a simple logical truth that, short of mass emigration into space, with rockets taking off at the rate of several million … Continue reading

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Film Review- What a Way to Go

Film Review: What a Way to Go- Life at the End of Empire “If we knew all the facts, we’d have discarded the myth of the techno fix a long time ago. To my eye, our crisis, at its deepest … Continue reading

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Crop Circles, Burkas, and the like

Anyone interested in crop circles -are they human-made hoaxes? or is there some other-worldy paranormal explanation? should check out this thread The debate falls into two camps: on the pro-paranormal side, very detailed examination of the patterns and microscopic changes … Continue reading

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Alanna Moore’s reply

Just read Graham’s blog…. He’s entitled to his opinion. But so are others entitled to have other ideas. Not everyone likes every article in a mag and no-one is forced to read them.

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