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Save Your Community. Unleash Local Creativity. Build a Makerspace.
I believe that every community needs a makerspace. It’s a place that: has lots of different tools for making things. helps and teaches you to make things. has other people that are making things...
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Growing Lots of Food in Extreme Environments
We’re learning so much about how to produce more of everything at the local level. Food, water, energy, and products. For example, I had a great talk today with Brando Crespi today (from the NGO...
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Build a Kitchenspace… Unleash Food Creatives. Generate Wealth Locally.
Most of us know what a makerspace is. For those who don’t, a makerspace is the local place people can go to get access to tools/expertise/collaboration to make things. One of the big benefits of a...
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Foodscapes EVERYWHERE!
There’s a big transition going on. Lawns are being replaced by food gardens. Everywhere. People are casting aside the non-productive lawn and replacing it with a productive asset. Smart. For intrepid...
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Building Abundant Ponds, Chinese Wheelbarrows, and DiY Algae Reactors
In today’s letter: A little lesson on how the legendary farmer, Sepp Holzer, builds abundant ponds. Ponds that produce food and income. How the Chinese wheelbarrow and paved paths “saved” China’s...
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What Superweeds can Teach You
Spending time in your garden is more than just a hobby (although you can have fun doing it). It’s a vote. A vote with your hands for a world that makes sense. Here’s a good example of why this vote...
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One Way to Make Aquaponics Easier
Aquaponics has a big problem. The good news, is that it can made better…simply. To understand the reason why we need smart aquaponics, think about your childhood. We all loved fish tanks. You...
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What Took 10,000 Years to Build And Only 50 Years to Destroy?
What does food security actually mean? Here’s a line of thinking I’ve found that was useful. You might find it useful too. Food security starts with successfully growing something you can actually...
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Don’t Throw Away Your Wealth
I met Dr. T.H. Culhane a couple of years ago at a National Geographic conference. He is on a lifelong mission to help the world’s poor, both urban and rural, bootstrap themselves out of poverty and...
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The Most Efficient Irrigation System in the World
If you live in a hot and dry location and you want to grow a garden, or keep a potted plant on your balcony, you have a problem. It’s very hard to keep your plants properly watered. I might have a...
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