What the heck is FreeSwapper? FreeSwapper is a global community that revolves around people like you. We make it easy for people to give away new and used items they no longer want or have use for, while making it easy for other people to find items they h

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... designer who concentrates on urban land use.

"This book introduces a revolutionary new concept to gardeners. Planting on roofs and walls began in Europe, but it is now becoming popular all over the world. Green roofs and walls reduce pollution and run-off, and also help insulate and reduce the mainte

Diary of a demonstration project and other published work about permaculture. Nate owns a permaculture-oriented landscape business in Santa Fe, NM, and writes a monthly column for the Santa Fe New Mexican's "Real Estate Guide" called 'Permaculture in Pract

To quote Ed Abbey in the first punches of his Desert Solitaire (as much of a book as a beating), every human has a favorite place, a place known to him/her as “the most beautiful place on earth”. Abbey attributes this to there being “no limit to the human

"Nature as a concept, it is often said, is elusive, complex, promiscuous and yet familiar. Social Nature is a superb introduction to nature's complexity from the vantage point of the very best of critical geography. An excellent introduction to the epistem

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PUBLIC SMOG is a park in the atmosphere that fluctuates in location and scale. The park is built through the economic mechanism of carbon trading. Carbon offsets are purchased in emissions trading markets and retired, making them inaccessible to polluting

... a 1960s-style revolution of New Urbanism, smart growth, and green building. And