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ARGENTINA: Urban Gardens Provide More than Just Food

Sarah Smith — Fri, 05 May 2006 10:46:33 -0700

ARGENTINA: Urban Gardens Provide More than Just Food
Marcela Valente

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BUENOS AIRES, Feb 9 (IPS) - The community gardens initially created to help confront the effects of the late 2001 economic collapse in Argentina have now "grown" into a government-run urban agriculture programme, which provides unemployed workers with much more than just food for their families' tables.

Some 7,000 people who were out of work before entering the programme have joined forces to clear the land, plant and harvest vegetables, and sell their produce in street market stalls.

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Cutting out fossil fuels by building community

star man — Sat, 22 Jul 2006 08:49:42 -0700

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Culture Change Letter # 137 Ecovillages and isotherms Jan Lundberg Teaser:

The urgent need to slash today's extreme consumption of fossil fuels is not a numbers game, nor is it a matter of degree. Rather, it is a matter of reduction in kind. We cannot break our hyper-addiction to our fossil-fueled economy of hyper-consumption incrementally, or gradually, or by means of some pain-free twelve-step program. We have to go cold turkey wherever we can. Right now.

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Venezuela's Cooperative Revolution

Molly Brown — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 10:54:19 -0700

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July/August 2006 issue of Dollars & Sense: The Magazine of Economic Justice Teaser:

An economic experiment is the hidden story behind ChÃ¡vez's 'Bolivarian Revolution.'

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No more business as usual

Molly Brown — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 10:42:11 -0700

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Byron King, Published on 11 Aug 2006 by Energy Bulletin Teaser:

What ALI SAMSAM BAKHTIARI (retired senior energy expert,formerly employed by the National Iranian Oil Co.) has to say about Peak Oil.

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Peak Oil will change our lives

Molly Brown — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 11:48:39 -0800

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Eric Curren, Augusta Free Press, http://www.augustafreepress.com/stories/storyReader$39709 Teaser:

In crisis lies opportunity. And whatever Washington does, people should start preparing for Peak Oil themselves.

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Biodiesel from Algae

Molly Brown — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 10:43:05 -0800

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Green Star Products Press Release, Monday November 13, 2006 Teaser:

Green Star Products Signs Contract to Build 90 Biodiesel Reactors in South Africa

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Friendly Fire

Molly Brown — Sun, 19 Nov 2006 10:58:50 -0800

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David Ehrenfeld, Resurgence, 2006 Issue 239 Teaser:

Most of those advocating the new energy technologies are not suggesting any reduction in overall energy consumption.

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How Close to Catastrophe?

Molly Brown — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 17:16:25 -0800

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Scientists Detail Climate Changes, Poles to Tropics

Molly Brown — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 09:10:35 -0700

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