Goshen College Environmental Science
Engaging academia with local and global issues of sustainability
We seek to make ourselves aware of our connections to global issues of peace, justice, and environmental stewardship while seeking local solutions in which we can actively be agents of change.
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Created: Jan 08, 2009
Updated: Nov 05, 2009
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Updated: 16 days ago
Purple Potatoes - Sue Girard
Last month as the potatoes in the back of the cupboard began sprouting, I was once again
prompted to seek out the new varieties of seed potatoes in various plant
cat...
Updated: 29 days ago
Bower Bird Solution - by Sue Girard (19th October, 2009)
When I moved to Katoomba I was thrilled
that we had a carefully crafted bower in our backyard right on the edge of our
proposed Zone V –...
Updated: 29 days ago
Geoff Lawton speaks in
Sydney
Written by Victoria
Walker
An event in Leichhardt recently celebrated the opening of a
new sector of local permaculturists, Permaculture South.
Their opening happi...
Updated: 29 days ago
Worms - Susan Girard Sept 2009
This week my friend
Vickie helped me dig out one of my compost bays, spreading the new soil over
the garden in readiness for spring planting. Hot composting is som...
Updated: 29 days ago
Refrigeration - Domestic Solutions by Celeste Salter
We decided it was time to get a new
refrigerator. The old one was a 370L top mount fridge/freezer, 20
years old. So with a view to progressive...
Updated: about 1 month ago
Welcome to our Bioregional Food Security Group (BFG for short)
The Network has a small working group focused on food sustainability in the Greater Blue Mountains bioregion (Australia). It aims to i...
Updated: about 1 month ago
The attached file was developed for consideration by members of the Network, and is also the text fo...
Updated: about 1 month ago
This is a list of all individuals, groups, businesses, educational institutions and sections of local government that we know of in the Blue Mountains that are making our transition to bioregiona...
Updated: about 1 month ago
For a definition and more information on bio-regions, see the Bio-regional Register on our wiserearth home-page.
AN EMERGING CONCEPT OF HOW A BIO-REGIONAL FOOD SECURITY ALLIANCE MIGHT WORK
L...
Updated: about 1 month ago
The
Blue Mountains Permaculture Network has as one of its projects the
preparation of a Bio-regionalism Register, to acknowledge the existing work towards sustainability of
local individuals, grou...