Permaculture & Regenerative Design News: My FB posts from the Permaculture Activist group

See these and much more at https://www.facebook.com/groups/PermacultureActivist/
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‎"A study in Cincinnati finds that young people prosecuted for delinquency are four times more likely than the general population to have high levels of lead in their bones." Hmmmm.

The Grime Behind the Crime

Poisoned Planet: Doubling of Ocean Mercury Levels Threatens Global Health

Lead and Crime: Assessing the Evidence

Does Lead Paint Produce More Crime Too?
"Just One Lick": The Hidden Lead That Could Sicken Your Kids_________________________________________

Fracking the Amish | OnEarth MagazineA bleak December sky hangs low over rural Lawrence County, Pennsylvania. Here, in areas populated by large Amish families, open fields roll toward the horizon uninterrupted by electrical wires and telephone poles. Stepping from a car that seems grossly out of place in this 19th century landscape, Ca...

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Restoration Agriculture at the University of Illinois via ASAP Illinois :: Department of Natural Res

nres.illinois.edu

This spring students at the University of Illinois initiated a study of permaculture design at the Sustainable Student Farm on the South Farms of the Urbana, Illinois Campus. The study is called Restoration Agriculture, and the goal of the project is to compare the production of traditional corn and...

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Of the 1,236 documented "community gardens," recognized by various groups throughout the city [Chicago], it turned out only 160 – or 13 percent – were really growing food (according to aerial images from June of 2010). But trolling over the city, frame by frame on Google Earth, Taylor found what looked like 4,494 possible sites of urban agriculture, many of which appeared to be small residential gardens. Their total mass adds up to 264,181 square meters of urban agriculture, much of it on the city’s South and West sides and far northwest where minority and immigrant communities are located.
http://www.theatlanticcities.com/neighborhoods/2013/01/mapping-urban-agriculture-sky/4346/

Mapping Urban Agriculture From the Skywww.theatlanticcities.com

Google Earth could help quantify urban gardens much better than advocates on the ground.

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At the international Permaculture Your Campus Conference, directors of the award-winning UMass Permaculture Initiative will give an introduction to permaculture in a campus setting and share the value that it has created for the University of Massachusetts system and local community.