Chevron hits out at British documentary on oil pollution in Ecuador Company upset over short film that uses Pablo Neruda’s famous poem on how US corporations treated Latin American countries as empty ‘banana republics’ The US oil giant Chevron has attacked the British makers of a short art-house documentary film about oil pollution in […]
The Amazing Benefits of Medicinal Mushrooms
Medicinal Mushrooms Medicinal mushrooms have a restorative effect on humans and the land. Mushrooms have a profound ability to boost the immune system, fight cancers, and improve functioning of important organs. They also help to rehabilitate damaged and polluted environments. If used in a farm or permaculture system, the mushrooms can improve the health of […]
Easy Watering for Container Gardens
Easy Watering for Container Gardens Lets face it container gardening is a great, practical gardening technique with multiple functions. Not only is it good for renters and city dwellers who have limited space and no permission to garden from their landlords, it is an ideal technique when there may be lead contamination. Considering that lead […]
Waste Management: Moving Forward with Innovation
Waste Management: Moving Forward with Innovation This is a wonderful article on innovative new ways for waste management. Trash is often overlooked as being an issue in the future. Do we really want a trash(especially plastic) filled world? An exciting new technology is an automatic trash separator for recycling purposes. This technology could be huge […]
Nature gives us everything free – let’s put it at the heart of everyday economic life
Natural capital is everything nature provides us for free. It is what our economy is built upon. We add man-made capital in the shape of houses, factories, offices and physical infrastructure, and human capital with our skills, ideas and science. Natural capital should, therefore, be at the heart of economics and economic policy – but […]
It Can Be Done! – Building Better Dams in the Andean Amazon
More than 150 dams are currently planned for five of the six major Andean tributaries of the Amazon River. Damming those large, free-flowing streams would provide hydropower to half a dozen South American countries – meeting their energy needs for decades to come, but with unknown, potentially calamitous environmental and social impacts. While it is […]
A.S.A.P. Book Crowd funder Has Launched!
After months of planning, we can proudly announce the beginning of our Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign! This campaign is very important and will have a large impact on how quickly the construction of our jungle community Hope can begin, along with other important A.S.A.P. projects. Check it out – the perks are amazing, and include book launch partying in Vilcabamba, […]
A.S.A.P. Site Launch
Restoring balance between man and the natural world