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A short film about Grow Zones

Categories: Kitchen Garden | Grow Zones | EarthAbbey News | Video |

28/05/09 | Posted by Bruce | Permalink | (10) Comments

There have been a few posts over the spring about Grow Zones, EarthAbbey’s local food through permaculture project. Here is a little movie that tells the story. Grow Zones will be back in the autumn and next spring.

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TED Michael Pollan with a plant’s eye view

Categories: Library | Video |

05/01/09 | Posted by Bruce | Permalink | (1) Comments

What if human consciousness isn’t the end-all and be-all? What if we are all just pawns in corn’s clever strategy game to rule the Earth? Author Michael Pollan asks us to see the world from a plant’s-eye view.

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TED David Gallo with some underwater magic

Categories: Library | Chapel | Video |

24/12/08 | Posted by Bruce | Permalink | (0) Comments

David Gallo shows jaw-dropping footage of amazing sea creatures, including a colour-shifting cuttlefish, a perfectly camouflaged octopus, and a Times Square’s worth of neon light displays from fish who live in the blackest depths of the ocean.

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TED Amory Lovins on Winning the Oil end game

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17/12/08 | Posted by Bruce | Permalink | (0) Comments

In this energizing talk, Amory Lovins lays out his simple plan for weaning us off oil and revitalizing the economy. Amory Lovins is cofounder of the Rocky Mountain Institute and the instigator of ingenious ideas to transform the energy and automobile industries.

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TED David Keith with a surprising idea for solving climate change

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11/12/08 | Posted by Bruce | Permalink | (0) Comments

Environmental scientist David Keith proposes a cheap, effective, shocking means to address climate change: What if we injected a huge cloud of ash into the atmosphere to deflect sunlight and heat?

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TED Alex Steffen on a Sustainable Future

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05/12/08 | Posted by Bruce | Permalink | (0) Comments

Worldchanging.com founder Alex Steffen argues that reducing humanity’s ecological footprint is incredibly vital now, as the western consumer lifestyle spreads to developing countries. Watch this TED talk.

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How To Make A Rocket Stove

Categories: Kitchen Garden | Task | Video |

27/05/08 | Posted by Bruce | Permalink | (2) Comments

A rocket stove is a very simple cooking method that uses twigs or scraps of wood to create a very focussed heat source; no wasted heat. Watch this video walk-through.

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Fun with a wombat

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26/05/08 | Posted by breaking wave | Permalink | (1) Comments

More and more people are becoming aware that the environmental challenge is not just about changing behaviour, but also about changing the whole way we think about the world.

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Al Gore’s brand new slide show

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23/04/08 | Posted by Bruce | Permalink | (0) Comments

In Al Gore’s brand-new slideshow he presents evidence that the pace of climate change may be even worse than scientists were recently predicting, and challenges us to act with a sense of “generational mission”—the kind of feeling that brought forth the civil rights movement—to set it right. Gore’s stirring presentation is followed by a brief Q&A in which he is asked for his verdict on the current political candidates’ climate policies and on what role he himself might play in future.

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