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Focus on meeting humanity’s material and physical needs in sustainable & ethically and ecologically responsible ways.

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Permaculture is a design system and a global network that offers significant and practical contributions towards achieving a sustainable future.  It draws together diverse skills and ways of living that can empower individuals, households and communities to move from being dependent consumers to becoming resilient producers.  Permaculture integrates such fields as organic gardening, sustainable farming, energy-efficient building and eco-village development into a viable template for permanent or sustainable human culture.   http://www.holmgren.com.au 

As inspiringly illustrated in the film, The Eleventh Hour, we have now the technology to turn around our entire material culture - with clean energy (for power and transport), sustainable (energy efficient) architectural design, elimination of waste, etc. www.11thhourfilm.com

Become part of this grassroots movement - Eleventh Hour Action - for the transition to a sustainable civilization. From individuals to corporations, all have an essential role to play. www.11thhouraction.com

“Good Business”, an article by Andrew Weil, M.D., edited by LTN
What’s the best way to improve the world? What’s the best way to move from a wasteful, polluting, unhealthy, short-sighted and authoritarian society to an efficient, clean, health-promoting, sustainable and empowering one? It seems clear to me that ethical, for-profit businesses just might be the last, best hope for the planet. We are in the midst of a second Industrial Revolution… [wherein businesses are aligning themselves] - as successful businesses have always done - with what people want now. And increasingly, what people want is a world that is healthy and safe for them and their children. We are moving from a consumptive economy to a restorative economy. A restorative business is one that makes a good product that a sustainable world needs, pushing out unsustainable products in the process. www.11thhouraction.com/node/556/

The Biomimicry Institute’s Mission is to naturalize biomimicry in the culture by promoting the transfer of ideas, designs, and strategies from biology to sustainable human systems design. The conscious emulation of life’s genius is a survival strategy for the human race, a path to a sustainable future. We are learning, for instance, how to grow food like a prairie, build ceramics like an abalone, create color like a peacock, self-medicate like a chimp, compute like a cell, and run a business like a hickory forest. http://biomimicryinstitute.org/about-us/

Looking for sustainable solutions? To date, the 11thhouraction site mainly features solutions offered in the US; in Australia, whether you are a concerned individual or a property owner, manager or developer or proprietor of an established eco-friendly business, the ECOdirectory is an excellent resource for finding and promoting eco-solutions in the Land Down Under. The Ecodirectory provides information and contacts for environmentally responsible businesses and organizations - in 5 categories (Land, Building, Community & Business, Energy and Water). Towards sustainability - well done! www.eco.com.au/directory/index.htm

Bill Mollison on Energy, Water, and Food … gathering and using compressed air for transport, power tools, cooling, etc; using solar, wind, geo-thermal and tidal energies to supply national grids and state energy systems; designing and legislating for self-sufficient buildings - buildings that self-sufficiently collect / provide food, water, and energy for their inhabitants! www.tagari.com/

Visit www.connectotel.com/gmfood/connctotel to read an archive of GM articles or view/download LTN’s edit of selected articles from connectotel - then, well informed, you can join the grassroots movement to stop the proliferation of this anti-life madness - in Australia with www.geneethics.org ; in the UK, with www.foe.co.uk/campaigns/real_food/ ; in the US with www.rain.org/~sals/my.html. The latter site also offers many articles reporting tests and field observations showing the advantages of growing and eating organically.