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Some good links for sustainable development of the environment?

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  1. Are you interested in research, or...

    I'm not sure I understand the question. Anyway, I recently wrote a blog post about desert reclamation; there are some good links in that piece. Link below. Oops in advance if it's of no help to you. ;-)


  2. Have you read Our Common Future? We're studying sustainable development in Science class and our teacher assigned three pages of that report for us to read. If you email me I can scan in the pages for you, and/or email you notes on it..

  3. Permaculture:

    To live ethically and sustainably we have to understand eco systems and how the natural world works. The key is to understand that we are a single system; not separate. Whatever we do locally affects other people and the environment globally. Local solutions provide the best answers, we have different climates, soils, flora and fauna. Different needs, wants, tradition and cultures. But by acting locally we must keep an eye on the Horizon by limiting the damage on the environment and people globally. For example Global Warming affects us all.

    Permaculture seeks to design ways of meeting man's needs by creating permanent high-yielding agricultural ecosystems. It is a solution aimed at how people can live on the smallest amount of land possible. The natural landscape (the rest, the wilderness is then not used by man) it is then left alone to heal and so it functions holistically.

    Local responsibility ensures that people become as auto sufficient as possible both individually and as trading communities. Man is responsible for meeting his own needs for fuel, food and dealing with his own outputs and wastes.

    Timber is grown on site in mixed native woodlands. This enriches the local ecosystem but its basis is the opposition of meeting man's needs by deforestation of the remaining natural and ancient forests/woodlands. Permaculture is a system of observation and least possible intervention both in terms of the home and the wilderness. It's leading principle is that eco-systems will naturally re-balance if left alone.

    Hence the desire to create high yielding 'homesteads' to meet man's needs as efficiently as possible. By creating our own mini high yielding systems for our own use we use the least amount of everything possible. The Ethics of Permaculture are: Earth Care this is simply working with nature not against it. Limiting consumption and self limiting family size so there is less demand on natural systems/finite resources/finite land.

    People Care

    By being as self reliant as possible we do not exploit others, nor the land. Permaculture seeks to provide Permanent Agriculture. For example trees that are planted today on the 'homestead' will be inheritance for your grandchildrens' generation. Mixed woodlands of native trees on the homestead are managed so they provide food and fuel but the key principle is PERMANENT culture. You are investing in the future but having your needs met as ethically as possible whilst providing a legacy for future generations.

    Fair Shares

    One earth it is socially just to share with everyone, all other living things and with future generations. By limiting our consumption of everything including family size it supports the needs of everyone throughout the world to have access to clean water, clean air, food, shelter, fair and living wage, community etc.

    Links not all are 'pure' Permaculture, but the links at the end are essential knowledge as the ideas are used in Permaculture.

    Download the free ebook Essence of Permaculture on David Holmgren's website.

    David Holmgren & Su Dennett

    Holmgren Design Services

    Email info@holmgren.com.au

    Website http://www.holmgren.com.au

    http://www.permaculture.org.uk/

    http://66.102.1.104/scholar?hl=en&lr=&q=...

    http://www.terrapsych.com/permaculturede...

    http://www.permacultureactivist.net/News...

    http://youtube.com/watch?v=mVJtpuOyCo0

    http://youtube.com/watch?v=wai5nDz_OjY&m...

    http://youtube.com/watch?v=l3_RbgtDnQE&m...

    http://youtube.com/watch?v=3jD7rATl39Y

    http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZOaPFt_ajvU&m...

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ye90FxJmu...

    http://noimpactman.typepad.com/blog/2007...

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kr3u8oqsx...

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYgQAfxXH...

    http://www.sbpermaculture.org/index.html

    http://www.thefarm.org/permaculture/

    http://search.abc.net.au/search/search.c...

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sohI6vnWZ...

    http://video.on.nytimes.com/?fr_story=46...

    http://video.on.nytimes.com/?fr_story=46...

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7g2mmqqEn...  

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sfz7V8Mvb...

    Vandana Shiva, conference about Trees 1/4

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzR7w4HOC...

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tM3HFpW6q...

    ttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n77BfxnV...

    http://youtube.com/watch?v=q7JgenD4fdw&m...

    http://youtube.com/watch?v=q7JgenD4fdw&m...

    Population

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykQVxWQpZ...

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJVMh2-5L...

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmEosykOe...

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lJ_WwAhY...

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pb3JI8F9L...

    http://globalpublicmedia.com/transcripts...

    Meme

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzGjEkp77...

    http://home.clara.net/heureka/gaia/deep-...

    htp://www.davidsuzuki.org/

    http://www.davidsuzuki.org/NatureChallen...

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5JiQdfmy...

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5w10sIg20...

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRT1XQpGj...

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgN_UziIO...

    bioremediation with fungi Paul staments

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BelfLIJEr...

    gas works bioremediation

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnB7KxeE9...

    beeswax

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmSaNqMpf...

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWWNLvgU4...

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJVMh2-5L...

    http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:LtS...

  4. For sustainable development I'd encourage you to google 'Permaculture'. It's a system for developing ecosytems in a purely sustainable way.

    You can't really develop the global environment though.

    If we're not getting your meaning then check your dictionary and come back.

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