Month: Jul 2014

Agriculture: The Surprising Leading Contributor to Pollution, with Vandana Shiva

A Gold-Mine of info and links for confronting Capitalist Agriculture madness, with another great talk by amaazing Vandana Shiva.

Rise Up Times's avatarRise Up Times

The insanity has gone far enough. It’s time to unite and fight back, which is why I encourage you to boycott every single product owned by members of the [Grocery Manufacturers Association] GMA, including natural and organic brands. To learn more about this boycott, and the traitor brands that are included, please visit TheBoycottList.org.  

By Dr. Mercola  Organic Consumers Association  July 1, 2014

Did you know that the modern agricultural system is responsible for putting more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than the actual burning of fossil fuels? Understanding this reveals an obvious answer to pressing global problems.

There are only three places for carbon to go: land, air, and water. Our agricultural practices have removed massive amounts of valuable carbon from land, transferring it into air and water. Carbon management is critically important regardless of one’s views of climate change.

By paying greater attention to carbon management…

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Solidarity Week for Anarchist Prisoners. Aug. 23-30

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In  summer 2013 members of several ABC groups discussed the necessity of introducing an International Day for Anarchist Prisoners. Given there are already established dates for Political Prisoners Rights Day or Prison Justice Day, we found it important to emphasise the stories of our comrades as well. Many imprisoned anarchists will never be acknowledged as ‘political prisoners’ by formal human-rights organisations, because their sense of social justice is strictly limited to the capitalist laws which are designed to defend the State and prevent any real social change.

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At the same time, even within our individual communities, we know so little about the repression that exists in other countries, to say nothing of the names and cases involving many of our incarcerated comrades.

This is why we have decided to introduce an annual Week for Anarchist Prisoners on August 23-30.

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4 de Julio: EE.UU. CELEBRA EL DÍA DEL ORGULLO CRIMINAL, NEOLIBERAL, IMPERIAL, BÉLICO Y MUY CRISTIANO

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Roof Water Catchment and Tanks | A Permaculture Design Course Handbook

In arid climates country houses were often built with a roof
catchment tank built in. Modern houses usually have roof guttering and can be easily adapted.
It works, we’ve done it for years! Though you need to filter the water for drinking, and those plastic tanks don’t keep water fresh. This is Ch 7 but the whole book is on the blog..

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Roof Water Catchment and Tanks | A Permaculture Design Course Handbook.

Fun feature i have been playing with here lately at the lake to help get off us off the grid for water. Had to do some Kentucky style jerry rigging, but when in Rome do as the Romans do! Our latest EDU release, this one from the water chapter. http://treeyopermacultureedu.wordpress.com/chapter-7-water/roof-water-catchment-and-tanks/

schematic of roof cathment system from Brad Lancaster

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