Urban Farming

Written on April 13th, 2015 in politics Comments Off

watch this video with Roman Gaus, 8.3 min, registred on Nov 2, 2011 and published by TEDx Talks on YouTube.

Urban agriculture has been real for decades, starting with the industrialization of Western Europe in the 20th century. Urban agriculture has been also well practiced in poor economies such as Cuba, where it serves as an important way of self-reliance. Today, with conventional agriculture “Big Ag” being at a cross-road in terms of its ecological impact on the environment and the increased food demand of a population growing to 9bn people by 2050, urban agriculture may very well be one key of a solution for the 21st century. As Roman explains, urban agriculture offers the solution to grow potentially enough food in the city to feed its entire population. What’s more, it also creates healthier, wealthier and happier cities, offering consumers with fresh & quality food choices and access to better quality of life … (full text).

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Roman Gaus is the founder of Urban Farming.org;

UrbanFarmers AG in german; (in english by internal link);

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Time to Abolish Capitalism and Cultivate Socialism, on Axis of Logic, by Mateo Pimentel, April 11, 2015 (Mateo Pimentel is an Axis of Logic columnist, living on the US-Mexico border. Read the Biography and additional articles by Axis Columnist Mateo Pimentel);

Inuit leaders issue warning: Earth has shifted, on Axis of Logic, by Susan Duclos, Indian Life, April 11, 2015: The Inuits are indigenous people that inhabit the arctic regions of Canada, the United States and Greenland and throughout history their very lives have been dependent on being able to correctly forecast weather…. and they are warning NASA and the world that global warming isn’t the cause of what we are seeing with extreme weather, earthquakes and other events. The earth has shifted, tilted or as they put it, “wobbled” to the north and they all agree “Their sky has changed.” The elders maintain the Sun doesn’t rise where it used to, they have longer daylight to hunt and the Sun is higher than it used to be and warms up quicker than before. The elders who were interviewed across the north all said the same thing, their sky has changed …;

Australia: UTOPIA – White Privilege Embezzles Black Emancipation – John_Pilger, 111.38 min, uploaded by invisiblTV, Oct 1, 2014: … Welcome to 21st Century Australia’s suburban war against the livelihoods of its own Aboriginal citizen …;

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