The orgasmic organic internet food thingy.

Revolutions often succeed because a number of important variables come together at the same time. For the organic food movement their revolution really took off as the internet went vertical. The relationship of good, down to earth farming practices with top-end communication technologies has become a marriage made in heaven.
Of course quite a number of [...]

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Greening the Sahara to reverse desertification.

Contour bunding is a fairly simple method of retaining topsoil and moisture and is one of several methods being used with significant effect to re-green the Sahara.
It consists of placing lines of stones along slopes and contours on the land to help rainfall soak in, and to stop topsoil washing away.
And that is [...]

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Grass roofs in Norway.

Not all environment solutions involve modern technology or new ideas. Grass roofs on houses in Norway are one such case. Translated literally, torvtak is “turf roof.” For hundreds of years turf roofs have been popular in Norway.
No two turf roofs are the same. Some are bright green and almost velvety. Others are golden and look [...]

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The first grand is always the sweetest! Especially celebrating it here in Norway.
Think I’ll offset the flight with another donation to the BBC’s Planet Earth tiger appeal.
Don’t trust those offset options!

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