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Handbook of Sustainability Literacy
This is a must read for everyone who wants to explore a sustainable future The Handbook of Sustainability Literacy ? Skills for a Changing World In this ground-breaking book, leading sustainability educators are joined by literary critics, permaculturalists, ecologists, artists, journalists, engineers, mathematicians and philosophers in a deep reflection on the skills people need to [...]
Food dependence
Suhas Chakma admonishes the Maoists: “Nepal is landlocked by India. Nepal can get financial support from China but it is simply not possible to bring gasoline and food supplies for 27 million Nepali people by air. To bring Nepal to a standstill all India needs to do is to put two police constables respectively at [...]
You might want to listen to this song
ke bhayo yesto 14 sept 09I made this song recently. Will post better version later, after my exam is over and i have proper time for recording. ke bhayo yesto 14 sept 09
Compost Tea Ideas from Permaculture list message
Thank you Ben: I hope this might be useful to some of our readers/farmers in Nepal–or wherever since this is cyberspace, anyway!
G’day Marisha and Lawrence,
I’m following an established method of brewing that produces an
excellent diversity of soil microbes, so the goal is as you say
Marisha, to “pump up the populations”. I’m also looking for precision
in this effort. I intend to verify the presence of the desired soil
life under the microscope, leaving little to chance.
Bill Mollison at his best bytes!
How well said. I have been trying to come up with something like this. Here you go, Bill, as always, you are the pioneer and it really takes guts to leave the beaten tracks and pioneer the paths–while gently walking! “…the greatest change we need to make is from consumption toproduction, even if on a [...]
Waste
Stuart Tristram’s Waste sounds like an important book that lays bare the level of food that goes waste throughout much of the super-market dominated world.
Devinder Sharma on Indian drought, food prices and innovative practices
Much of South Asia, and it appears, much of the world seems to be going through drought and the occurance of drought seems to be increasing in both intensity and frequency. However, the governments have hidden behind the veil of market sentiments to explain the rising food prices, growing hunger and increasing farmer suicides. As [...]
Norman Borlaug
Norman Borlaug passed away this week. Considered as one of the main architecht of green revolution, he obviously left a long lasting legacy. But not a nice one, for sure, for the majority around the world, barring a few scientists, some corporations, some US policy makers. If we look at the situation of really farming [...]
Slow Money Alliance
Ajamvari Farm is a family run farm. It is getting more and more productive each year. However, it’s survival in the long run will depend not only on how it builds the soil, but how it gets embedded in broader economic activities. For now, it is surviving in the most hostile environment. Farming everywhere is [...]
Transforming Tribhuvan University–I
Greening the Tribhuvan University This is the piece I wrote for the Kathmandu Post, September 15, 2009. I know it will be very hard for those who are involved in ‘higher education’ in Nepal. After all, they came there to escape the soil. But the way Tribhuvan University’s central campus Kirtipur’s landscape is, it purely [...]