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Randy Chatterjee's Blog – June 2012 Archive (2)

A Call in Scotland to Grow Food on Unused Land - BCC

An article from BBC Scotland about the movement to free up unused public land for market gardens is here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-18405257

This issue is crucial to us in a City regulating itself and its residents to death, or at least into homelessness and malnutrition. In my book, homelessness and malnutrition are tantamount to death,…

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Added by Randy Chatterjee on June 12, 2012 at 9:42am — 1 Comment

Earth Over the Brink - and article by David Roberts of The Grist

We’re about to push the Earth over the brink, new study finds

By David Roberts

There’s a new scientific paper out in the journal Nature called “Approaching a state shift in Earth’s biosphere.” In a sane world, it would be front page news. This is from the…

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Added by Randy Chatterjee on June 7, 2012 at 10:00am — No Comments

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