Great website and information: Agricultural Innovations

Tuesday, October 14th, 2008

This website is a great resource! You can spend days listening to the podcasts alone. It comes in english and spanish. Use this site!

Agricultural Innovations seeks to collaborate with international organizations, national agencies, and local communities to apply the latest in GIS and Information Technology towards the design of sustainable resource management systems and to encourage the adoption of permaculture and appropriate technology throughout Latin America and the United States.

Our philosophy is based on several core principles that provide an ethical foundation for our practice in the field. Poverty, malnutrition, land degradation and loss of biodiversity are among the fundamental issues of our time. Agricultural Innovations is committed to fighting poverty and promoting peace and prosperity through sound planning initiatives.

www.agroinnovations.com


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Doors of Perception

Monday, March 17th, 2008

Starting new conversations on design and innovation.

Doors of Perception is a design blog that not infrequently picks out the issue of design and sustainabilty.

I.e. read this article about ‘Ecocide’!

‘[...] A good example of ecocidal policy in action was an announcement last week concerning the Design Centre of the North (DCN). The regional development agency, One North East, has published a public call for tenders for organisations to run the new institution.

The word sustainability does not appear, once, in the accompanying text - despite the fact that 80 percent of the environmental impact of products and buildings is determined at the design stage. [...]‘

‘[...] Professional design bodies and old-paradigm design schools will persist in dragging their feet - but they are baggage we can afford to leave behind.’

Word!

Via: psfk.


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