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

Low Impact

I think you have something like 40,000 trading members, with $2.5 I think we’re up to 48,000 households registered. Creating systems among each other, creating commons, is a lot more possible here than in the North (although it’s not impossible in the North). So it’s a nice closed-loop system. Hello Will. Is that right?

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A beginners’ guide to farmers’ markets: Part 1

Low Impact

Many people have little regard for the origins of what they eat, meaning they do not think about its true cost – not only financially, but also in terms of people, and the planet. Whenever we put anything on our plates, or into our mouths, we should think about: The carbon cost of both growing the food and transporting it to us.

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Mutual credit clubs: an introduction, with Dil Green

Low Impact

Dil Green had the original idea for ‘mutual credit clubs’ that can federate to create a new global trading system. It’s apt I think to start those interviews with you, because it’s your idea about mutual credit clubs that’s got me to this position. So people read the book, they think great – How can I join in? Very exciting.

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Evaluating Water Tech (A Guide For Water Utility Production Teams)

Seyi Fabode

One thing that is missed by upstarts coming into the industry is that product pitches that suggest ‘Product A’ will solve the inefficiency issues of the water utility miss a critical point about the water industry; inefficiencies in the system are a feature, not a bug (a separate blog on this some other time).

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‘There’s no doubt left’ about scientific consensus on global warming anymore

Grist

There is no doubt left — as has been shown extensively in many other studies addressing many different aspects of the climate system using different methods and data sets,” said Stefan Brönnimann, from the University of Bern and the Pages 2K consortium of climate scientists. The pushback has been political rather than scientific. In the U.S.,

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How to start a community garden: Part 1

Low Impact

You may have a focus on one or more of the above, or think in terms of a range of the above reasons. An area planted with a range of fruit and/or nut trees, these orchards are often not as intensively managed as community gardens or farms, and may require only minimal intervention once the trees have been planted and the system set up.

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Measuring War’s Effect on a Global Breadbasket

Planet Pulse

That is why Planet provides imagery to the media, think tanks, and researchers like NASA Harvest, NASA’s Food Security and Agriculture Program, run out of the University of Maryland (UMD), which use Planet’s satellite imagery to monitor what’s happening on the ground and explore the chronic effects of the conflict in Ukraine. .