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Mutual credit in Africa: interview with Will Ruddick of Grassroots Economics

Low Impact

And regular usage – about 2000 active traders per week. But no laws were being broken, so we ended up doing an international petition, and eventually the public prosecutor said that there was no Kenyan law that we were breaking. The concept of cash being better than building things and doing things locally.

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On the Future of our Food

Mr. Sustainability

Soil degradation. Food is basically a combination of energy, water and nutrients. Some plants and micro-organisms can make food ‘out of thin air’ by simply rearranging carbon, water and oxygen molecules using energy from the Sun. Carbs are our fuel, protein and fat are the building blocks of our cells. Deforestation.

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Where Does All The Radioactive Fracking Waste Go?

DeSmogBlog

The oil and gas industry produces an extraordinary amount of waste. The company has relied heavily on a decades-old industry exemption passed in 1980 — known as the Bentsen and Bevill Amendments to the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act — that classifies oil and gas waste as non-hazardous, thereby affording it little regulatory scrutiny.

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