People and Place

We’ll be beta-testing the P&P journal, built on a Rails backend, over the course of the summer. The first issue will feature Brian Walker of the Resilience Alliance.
Happy to let you know when its up. Drop me a note: howard AT ecotrust DOT org.

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Thanks for stopping by. People and Place will draw upon Ecotrust’s depth of experience and network of relationships to promote ideas and practices that underpin sustainable transitions at multiple scales.
People and Place: Ideas that connect us.
Talk with you soon.
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The standard criticism of organic agriculture is that it could never feed the world. Because crop yields are lower under organic systems, they require more land to grow the same amount of food.

retete naturiste
cadouri de sarbatori
reparatii dacia
promotional gifts
weather radar
ski and snowboard
web traffic
free trial antispyware
student website
wind speed
winter family vacation

Here’s an example from a December 2006 editorial [...]

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People and Place is going to take a break while I work on some other projects - including the development of the full P&P website for launch this fall. Thanks to everyone who has been following along with my experiments in this medium. See you in a couple of months.
One more post to come this [...]

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Pope Benedict XVI:
Everyone can see today that humanity could destroy the foundation of its own existence, its earth, and therefore we can’t simply do whatever we want with this earth that has been entrusted to us, what seems to us in a given moment useful or promising, but we have to respect the inner [...]

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An extraordinary column by David Brooks last week, in which he relays his thoughts on reading Douglas Hofstadter’s new book, I Am a Strange Loop. Let’s join Mr. Brooks halfway through:
Most political and social disputes grow out of differing theories about the self, and I find Hofstadter’s social, dynamic, overlapping theory of self very congenial.

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James K. Galbraith cuts straight to the chase. “We need a replacement for neoclassical economics,” he declares in a speech to the Canadian Economics Association.
The speech celebrates the life and work of his father, the economist John K. Galbraith, and is posted as part of the TPM Cafe Book Club discussion of “Hip Heterodoxy,” which [...]

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Mainstream economics is in a muddle. That’s the story behind “Hip Heterodoxy,” a wonderfully engaging piece by Christopher Hayes that ran in The Nation last month. “It’s a Friday night in January,” relates Mr. Hayes, “and I am searching for a free drink among 9,000 economists.”
With Mr. Hayes as a guide, we get a peek [...]

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The Western meadowlark - Oregon’s state bird - is disappearing fast, reported The Oregonian last month, in a story that saw local variants all around the country.
For the Miami Herald (Florida), it was the American kestrel, black skimmer and rusty blackbird; for the Stamford Times (Connecticut), the brown thrasher, blue winged warbler and yellow breasted [...]

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Environmental concerns are rising in many countries around the world, according to the 2007 Pew Global Attitudes survey. “The proportion of people who view environmental degradation as a major threat to the planet has increased significantly in 20 of the 35 countries for which trends from 2002 are available,” write the report’s authors. The 47-nation [...]

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