Read what our writers around the world are saying about climate change.
It’s been seven glorious days since we threw open the doors to the reloaded celsias.co.nz. We’ve had a nice refreshing row about the ETS in which our publisher had his hair insulted, we uploaded a dirty movie and the world’s most sustainable loo paper. Make ... keep reading
Written by Andy Kenworthy in May 2010, about Action, Protest, & Activism, Agriculture & Food, Air Quality, Alternative, Cohousing, & Off-Grid Living, Architecture, Art & Culture, Biofuels & Alternative Energy, Carbon Sequestration, Carbon Trading, Celebrities, Children and Families, Clean Technologies, Climate Change, Coal & Oil, Computing, Consumerism, Deforestation, Design, Earth, Soil, & Landscape, Economics, Education, Electric vehicles, Emissions, Energy Saving, Environment & Wildlife, Environmental Disasters, ETS, Events, Finance & Money, Food, Genetic Modification, Global Dimming, Green energy, Health, Industry & Business, Law, Lifestyle & Behavior, Logging, marketing, Media, Nuclear, Organic, Permaculture, Philosophy & Religion, Politics & Government, Pollution, Population, Poverty & Development, Recycling, Rivers, Lakes, and Oceans, Smart Growth, Solar, Transition Towns, Transport, Travel, War, Water, Weather (1 comment)
Mud doesn't just prop up the plants, it props up our entire civilisation. This award-winning film produced in partnership with Conservation International and a group of other environmental NGOs gets deep down and dirty on the damage we are doing to the earth, literally. The film charts the massive ... keep reading
Written by Celsias team in May 2010, about Agriculture & Food, Earth, Soil, & Landscape, Organic, Permaculture
In order to generate excitement around humble dirt - the star of a new movie bearing its name - people are being encouraged to visit the official site and share their own soil stories. Dirt! The Movie, due out in December, tells the amazing story of humans and our relationship with the ... keep reading
Written by Kate R. in November 2009, about Agriculture & Food, Children and Families, Climate Change, Consumerism, Deforestation, Design, Earth, Soil, & Landscape, Economics, Environment & Wildlife, Environmental Disasters, Finance & Money, Food, Industry & Business, Lifestyle & Behavior, Logging, Permaculture, Philosophy & Religion, Politics & Government, Pollution, Population, Weather
Permaculture expert Penny Livingston-Stark shows how natural systems can teach us better design practices. Learning to work with the earth not only creates a healthier environment, it also nourishes the people who live in it. She is a permaculture expert and founder of the Permaculture Institute of Northern California and ... keep reading
Written by Chris Tobias in September 2009, about Agriculture & Food, Earth, Soil, & Landscape, Food, Organic, Permaculture
Have a look at this video featuring Sepp Holzer, an expert permaculturist. Permaculture involves farming in cycles, modeling itself on self sufficient, natural ecosystems. Holzer's farm 'Krameterhof' in Salzburg attracts many visitors wanting to learn about his methods and techniques and he is only too happy to pass on ... keep reading
Written by Kate R. in September 2009, about Agriculture & Food, Children and Families, Consumerism, Design, Earth, Soil, & Landscape, Education, Environment & Wildlife, Food, Industry & Business, Lifestyle & Behavior, Organic, Permaculture, Recycling, Water
My aunt has been growing food and feeding the family for decades and my grandmother's garden was entirely given over to food crops. As a child we had token ‘hobby gardens' and as adults, we do not own our home, so we do not have a vegetable garden, as ... keep reading
Written by Christina Newnham in May 2009, about Agriculture & Food, Alternative, Cohousing, & Off-Grid Living, Children and Families, Earth, Soil, & Landscape, Finance & Money, Health, Lifestyle & Behavior, Organic, Permaculture, Politics & Government, Poverty & Development, Transition Towns (1 comment)
[Celsias] David, I just wanted to take a moment first to thank you for living such an inspiring, creative, and explorative life. I've been very interested in permaculture for the last few years, and I'm keen to discuss many of the themes that have emerged in your latest ... keep reading
Written by Chris Tobias in May 2009, about Agriculture & Food, Alternative, Cohousing, & Off-Grid Living, Art & Culture, Celebrities, Climate Change, Earth, Soil, & Landscape, Economics, Energy Saving, Lifestyle & Behavior, Permaculture
The authors of the Ecological Impact of Modern Agriculture suggest we call this era "the age of recognition of limits." Modern agriculture has created a number of environmental problems, including soil erosion and chemical contamination. It has definitely reached its limits. The authors (Judy Soule, Danielle Carré, and Wes Jackson ... keep reading
Written by Gina-Marie Cheeseman in February 2009, about Agriculture & Food, Organic, Permaculture (1 comment)
So, being the good granola boy that I am, I was sniffing around the Off-Grid.net for the latest and greatest in grid free goodness (yeah okay, so you can have a fetish for solar panels, kill me). And being a big fan of Wretha, I read her recent post ... keep reading
Written by Chris Tobias in January 2009, about Agriculture & Food, Food, Organic, Permaculture, Population (1 comment)
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