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First Permaculture course in Singapore

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There is tremendous damage being done to the environment by modern industrial agriculture through fossil fuel use for fertilisers, contamination of rivers through run-offs of pesticides, destruction of soils and decimation of insect populations. We have to think of alternative ways to grow food in a holistic way reflecting natural ecosystems instead of destroying them [...]

May 17th, 2009 | Posted in Sustainable Agriculture | Read More »

Ecological Intelligence

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It doesn’t come as a surprise at all that Daniel Goleman, the No. 1 International Bestselling author of books such as Emotional Intelligence, Primal Leadership and Social Intelligence, has chosen to write “Ecological Intelligence- Knowing the Hidden Impacts of What We Buy.” After all, it is a logical extension to the theories espoused in the [...]

May 1st, 2009 | Posted in Consumerism | Read More »

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