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Understanding the Sun and Solar Energy
With solar employing more people in US electricity generation than oil, coal and gas combined, we thought that for today’s blog post we would take a page form Dan Chiras’ book Power from the Sun-2nd Edition: A Practical Guide to Small-Scale Solar Production and found out how do we generate power from the sun and can it really meet all our …
Dumbing Us Down, Gatto's Radical Treaties on Public Education Turns 25
A bestseller for 25 years, John Taylor Gatto's radical treatise on public education, Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling, continues to advocate for the unshackling of children and learning from formal schooling.
We’re proud to announce the release of the 25th Anniversary Edition of Gatto's Dumbing Us Down with a …
Adventures in Mediterranean Permaculture: The Story of an Olive Groves Understory
Today's post is from Darrell Frey, author of The Biohselter Market Garden: A Permaculture Farm and co-author with Michelle Czolba of the long awaited The Food Forest Handbook: Design and Manage a Home-Scale Perennial Polyculture Garden.
In a previous post Darrell shared his experiences at Suryalila Yoga Retreat Center where he and his partner were …
Win Two Tickets to the Mother Earth News Fair in Asheville May 6-7
We are giving away two weekend passes to the Mother Earth News Fair in Asheville, NC, May 6-7th and a book of your choice from one of our authors speaking at the fair!
Simply post in the comment section about why you would like to attend and you will be entered to win!
Draw takes place May 1st.
Ethical Investing for All
Today's blog post is from Joel Solomon, the author The Clean Money Revolution: Reinventing Power, Purpose, and Capitalism with Tyee Bridge.
In the book Joel speaks to the largest intergenerational wealth transfer in history, $50 trillion will change hands from boomer to millennials in North America alone by 2050, and how this massive global shift …
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