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Links Perovskite solar cells hit new world efficiency record « Great Things from Small Things .. Nanotechnology Innovation http://wp.me/p5Cqpo-dzn Australia can get to zero emissions, as rooftop solar booms « Antinuclear http://wp.me/p5Cqpo-dBb Electricity Network Transformation Roadmap http://www.energynetworks.com.au/electricity-network-transformation-roadmap Detroit’s Sustainable “Agrihood” | Suzanne's Mom's Blog http://wp.me/p5Cqpo-dzF How soil is lost | Make Wealth History http://wp.me/p5Cqpo-dD0 **** This is the World Organic News Podcast for the week ending 12th of December 2016. Jon Moore reporting! This week we begin with news from the academy! Those curiously named solar cells perovskites have hit new efficiency levels. The blog: Great Things from Small Things .. Nanotechnology Innovation brings us the post: Perovskite solar cells hit new world efficiency record. Quote: They’re flexible, cheap to produce and simple to make – which is why perovskites are the hottest new material in solar cell design

Links   8 Easy Ways to Lead a More Sustainable Lifestyle – The Mindful Bunny http://wp.me/p5Cqpo-dw2 USDA: Organic corn and soy more profitable than conventional crops despite higher costs http://wp.me/p5Cqpo-dxz How ancient wisdom can help us adapt to climate change | ideas.ted.com http://wp.me/p5Cqpo-dxK become a farmer in seven days | The One-cow Revolution http://wp.me/p5Cqpo-dyA Transcript This is the World Organic News Podcast for the week ending 5th of December 2016. Jon Moore reporting!   This week we have a series of good news stories! Yes things are not ideal in the world and we’re all dealing with changes over which we have no control so let the good news begin!   The wonderfully named blog: The Mindful Bunny brings us a post: 8 Easy Ways to Lead a More Sustainable Lifestyle!   Like many of us the concept of sustainability can be overwhelming and The Mindful Bunny is no different: Quote: Sustainability is the concept that allows the current generation’s needs to be meet without sacrificing the need

Links An Introduction to Factory Farming – Revolution In Media http://wp.me/p5Cqpo-dsE industrial agriculture described + a comparison of the benefits and disadvantages – ECOSYSTEMS UNITED http://wp.me/p5Cqpo-drL World Organic News No Dig Gardening Book https://www.amazon.com/World-Organic-News-Gardening-Book-ebook/dp/B00U7G2OXI/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1474065878&sr=1-1&keywords=world+organic+ne This is the World Organic News Podcast for the week ending 28th of November 2016. Jon Moore reporting!   This week we begin with a post from the blog Revolution in Media entitled: An Introduction to Factory Farming by Larry Parker.   The author quotes the wikipedia definition of factory farming and then interrogates it.   Quote: At first glance, one can’t help but notice a few interesting terms in this definition, like “controversial practices”, “intensive agriculture”, and “industrialized production”, words that certainly conjure up a set of powerful images. But of even greater importance than

Links   Agricultural Revolution in a Shipping Container – High Tech Turn Key Solution for Food Insecurity and Safety – Recipes of My Home http://www.worldorganicnews.com/51320/agricultural-revolution-in-a-shipping-container-high-tech-turn-key-solution-for-food-insecurity-and-safety-recipes-of-my-home/   The Cover Crops | My Garden in the Grove http://www.worldorganicnews.com/51339/the-cover-crops-my-garden-in-the-grove/   New living wall launched could lead to 20% carbon reduction | Keep the pace of sustainability http://www.worldorganicnews.com/51408/new-living-wall-launched-could-lead-to-20-carbon-reduction-keep-the-pace-of-sustainability/   Why does Ireland only have 1,787 organic farmers? – Independent.ie http://www.worldorganicnews.com/51396/why-does-ireland-only-have-1787-organic-farmers-independent-ie/   Carbon farming for climate health | Looking Forward | santamariatimes.com http://www.worldorganicnews.com/51518/carbon-farming-for-climate-health-looking-forward-santamariatimes-com/ This is the W

Links   Home Farming Robot – Englishery! http://www.worldorganicnews.com/51104/home-farming-robot-englishery/   Soundscapes in the Vineyard | Son Alegre Ecològic http://www.worldorganicnews.com/51080/soundscapes-in-the-vineyard-son-alegre-ecologic/   The 3 sisters – An Artist in Spain http://www.worldorganicnews.com/51030/the-3-sisters-an-artist-in-spain/   Weeds | Permaculture San Joaquin – Colombia http://www.worldorganicnews.com/51109/weeds-permaculture-san-joaquin-colombia/   Good Soil – Turnips and Toadstools http://www.worldorganicnews.com/51184/good-soil-turnips-and-toadstools/ Lindsey Brigham, “Good Soil”, Circe Institute   Transcript! This is the World Organic News Podcast for the week ending 14th of November 2016. Jon Moore reporting! We begin with an ominous post following on from last week’s episode: Home Farming Robot! From the blog Englishery! It’s a video post  showing the planting, watering and a growing season all handled by a farmbot. Water where it’s needed and nowhere else,  a triump

Links   Why do we work? – Hawthorn Rising http://www.worldorganicnews.com/50921/why-do-we-work-hawthorn-rising/ Organic egg industry pits factory farms against family farms | Agweek http://www.worldorganicnews.com/50885/organic-egg-industry-pits-factory-farms-against-family-farms-agweek/ A Paradigm Project for the future – Location: Morocco : Augusta Free Press http://www.worldorganicnews.com/50878/a-paradigm-project-for-the-future-location-morocco-augusta-free-press/ **** This is the World Organic News Podcast for the week ending 7th of November 2016. Jon Moore reporting! The blog Hawthorn Rising brings a post: Why do we work? It begins with a quote from Masanobu Fukuoka author of The One Straw Revolution. Quote: “I do not particularly like the word ‘work’. Human beings are the only animals who have to work, and I think that is the most ridiculous thing in the world. Other animals make their livings by living, but people work like crazy, thinking that they have to in order to stay alive.” End Quote. The p

LINKS   UN Report Says Small-Scale Organic Farming Only Way To Feed The World | The Unveiling of The Hidden Knowledge http://www.worldorganicnews.com/50748/un-report-says-small-scale-organic-farming-only-way-to-feed-the-world-the-unveiling-of-the-hidden-knowledge/   Maslow's hierarchy of needs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow%27s_hierarchy_of_needs   Making headway towards urban food security – Food Governance http://www.worldorganicnews.com/50592/making-headway-towards-urban-food-security-food-governance/   A Farm Is Born – My Urban Farm http://www.worldorganicnews.com/50464/a-farm-is-born-my-urban-farm/   What Makes a Good Urban Farm Site? – TheBreakAway http://www.worldorganicnews.com/50686/what-makes-a-good-urban-farm-site-thebreakaway/   To till or not to till? Creating fertile soil | DIY Dynamics http://www.worldorganicnews.com/50570/to-till-or-not-to-till-creating-fertile-soil-diy-dynamics/   The One Straw Revolution. http://www.appropedia.org/images/d/d3/Onestraw.pdf **** This is the World O

Links Polyface Farm, Soil Carbon, Joel Salatin http://www.worldorganicnews.com/35601/the-call-of-the-farm-the-polyfaces-vision-for-a-better-world-millennial-mutt/   Polyfaces Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/Polyfaces/?ref=page_internal   Joel Salatin http://www.polyfacefarms.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Salatin   Soil carbon from 2007 http://www.abc.net.au/science/features/soilcarbon/ **** This is the World Organic News podcast catch up episode. Jon Moore reporting! Well at long last the voice is back, sort of and I have some thoughts to catch up on and some housekeeping too. Housekeeping first. I heartfelt thanks to Angry Genghis for the review on iTunes. Really, thank you so much. I might point out though that I'm not in New Zealand but in Australia. The wonder of the interwebs is the dissolution of borders and the possibility of direct conversations across the globe. If anyone is doing interesting things out there and would like to be interviewed, drop me a line at: podcast@worldorgani

Dealing with thistles, changes of attitude, soil ethic!

Originally and episode on the podcast mrjonmoore audio adventures but it fits the World Organic News ethos.

Links   New Report Points To A Positive Future For Green Farming | National Trust Places http://www.worldorganicnews.com/49523/new-report-points-to-a-positive-future-for-green-farming-national-trust-places/   Africa’s Top Cotton Grower Sees Good Crop After Monsanto Ban « GreenStitched http://www.worldorganicnews.com/49495/africas-top-cotton-grower-sees-good-crop-after-monsanto-ban-greenstitched/   Cornell Online Permaculture course starts October 24. – Cayuta Sun Farm http://www.worldorganicnews.com/49631/cornell-online-permaculture-course-starts-october-24-cayuta-sun-farm/   Can Trees communicate with each other? – ESP Adelaide http://www.worldorganicnews.com/49492/can-trees-communicate-with-each-other-esp-adelaide/   Mycelium Miracle Workers | elizabethterp’s Blog http://www.worldorganicnews.com/49486/mycelium-miracle-workers-elizabethterps-blog/   In what way is the soil dynamic, rather than a lifeless, static body? | Soils Matter, Get the Scoop! http://www.worldorganicnews.com/49597/in-what-way-is-t

  I only knew Bill through his words. So I have decided to share some these with you as my tribute the quiet man who has already changed this world.   “The greatest change we need to make is from consumption to production, even if on a small scale, in our own gardens. If only 10% of us do this, there is enough for everyone. Hence the futility of revolutionaries who have no gardens, who depend on the very system they attack, and who produce words and bullets, not food and shelter.” ― Bill Mollison   “Though the problems of the world are increasingly complex, the solutions remain embarrassingly simple.” ― Bill Mollison “. . . every society that grows extensive lawns could produce all its food on the same area, using the same resources, and . . . world famine could be totally relieved if we devoted the same resources of lawn culture to food culture in poor areas. These facts are before us. Thus, we can look at lawns, like double garages and large guard dogs, [and Humvees and SUVs] as a badge of willful waste,

Vale Bill Mollison https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Mollison   Want To Double World Food Production? Return The Land To Small Farmers… | Eco Snippets http://www.ecosnippets.com/environmental/double-world-food-production-small-farmers?utm_content=buffer34e7c&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer   Small farms http://www.worldorganicnews.com/49270/small-farms/   Organic agriculture combats the rise of antibiotic-resistant bacteria – A New Green World http://www.worldorganicnews.com/49251/organic-agriculture-combats-the-rise-of-antibiotic-resistant-bacteria-a-new-green-world/

Factory farming, climate change, seeds saving, soil carbon and ancient barley.   Time to Drive Factory-Farmed Food Off the Market http://www.worldorganicnews.com/48847/time-to-drive-factory-farmed-food-off-the-market/   Our best shot at cooling the planet might be right under our feet – Climate Change – The New Economy http://www.worldorganicnews.com/48804/our-best-shot-at-cooling-the-planet-might-be-right-under-our-feet-climate-change-the-new-economy/   Ten Acres Enough: www.forgottenbooks.com/download_pdf/Ten_Acres_Enough_1000213925.pdf   On Seed Saving – Pajamas, Books, and Chickens http://www.worldorganicnews.com/48894/on-seed-saving-pajamas-books-and-chickens/   The Green Revolution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Revolution   Genome of 6,000-year-old barley grains sequenced for first time | Ancientfoods http://www.worldorganicnews.com/48794/genome-of-6000-year-old-barley-grains-sequenced-for-first-time-ancientfoods/    

This supplemental follows on from episode 32. It explores a possible mechanism for the domestication of wheat. Or is that the domestication of humans  by wheat? 

Vegan Organics, Vegan Permaculture, The Origins of Farming.   Vegan Permaculture: Is It The Future? – Little Green Seedling http://www.worldorganicnews.com/48589/vegan-permaculture-is-it-the-future-little-green-seedling/   Beginner’s Guide to Veganic Gardening | gentleworld.org http://www.worldorganicnews.com/48541/beginners-guide-to-veganic-gardening/   Biointensive, John Jeavons http://www.growbiointensive.org/   Two groups spread early agriculture | Ancientfoods http://www.worldorganicnews.com/48647/two-groups-spread-early-agriculture-ancientfoods/

Beech Cove! The Hustle: Double Digging. http://www.worldorganicnews.com/48219/the-hustle-double-digging-beech-cove-farm/   Make Dirt, Not Waste; A Guide for Easy Composting, and Why You Should Do it. – sustainableplanetblog http://www.worldorganicnews.com/48216/make-dirt-not-waste-a-guide-for-easy-composting-and-why-you-should-do-it-sustainableplanetblog/ Going organic won’t cost the earth – The Courier http://www.worldorganicnews.com/48250/going-organic-wont-cost-the-earth-the-courier/   What Would It Take to Mainstream ‘Alternative’ Agriculture? | Alternet http://www.worldorganicnews.com/48266/what-would-it-take-to-mainstream-alternative-agriculture-alternet/   Organic growth – Independent.ie http://www.worldorganicnews.com/48282/organic-growth-independent-ie/

What Happens When You Stop Using Crop Protection Food Insight Your Nutrition and Food Safety Resource   http://www.worldorganicnews.com/?p=48176   Small Farms Are Feeding The World | Colin Todhunter http://www.worldorganicnews.com/?p=48148   Food Insight http://www.foodinsight.org/about   Permaculture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permaculture Bill Mollison https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Mollison David Holmgren https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Holmgren   Natural Farming https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_farming Masanobu Fukuoka https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masanobu_Fukuoka

From permaculture in Hawaii to food forests to a coal free energy system now! Pumped hydro for the cloudy windless days and nights – The Science Show – ABC Radio National (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) http://www.worldorganicnews.com/?p=47858   Cover Crop – From Across the Table http://www.worldorganicnews.com/?p=47878   Planning an orchard as a forest ecosystem | Olives, pines, rocks http://www.worldorganicnews.com/?p=47864   Urban farming on rooftops done by Farmbots would inspire office workers | EnrgResrch http://www.worldorganicnews.com/?p=47854   Intro to Permaculture – “Abundant Land” Documentary – Makani Media http://www.worldorganicnews.com/?p=47730

Roundup, soil health and growing your own! How Widespread Is Roundup®? Is It In Your Urine? |theinternationalreporter.org http://www.worldorganicnews.com/?p=47543 THE DEBATE OF OUR TIME | Forgotten soil http://www.worldorganicnews.com/?p=47593 All New Square Foot Gardening (2nd Edition) by Mel Bartholomew | The Adventures of Merlyn Perilous http://www.worldorganicnews.com/?p=47589 What is a keyhole garden? – What’s in That Yard? http://www.worldorganicnews.com/?p=47602 Grow 53 Plants in 4 Sq Ft with a Garden Tower Vertical Container Garden | Heathen Women http://www.worldorganicnews.com/?p=47600