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Hot on the heels of the announcement of new laws allowing start up companies to seek investment via crowdsourcing an investment vehicle for organic agriculture has been launched. The Organic and Restorative Investment Coop, known as ORIC, will be launched in Melbourne next month. The aim of the Coop is to facilitate investment into agriculture Continue Reading →
The John James Newsletter 165 11 March 2017 You may think your actions are meaningless and that they won’t help, but that is no excuse, you must still act Mohandas Gandhi Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people John Adams It is no longer rare to meet adults who have never Continue Reading →
In the lead up to the French Presidential election, the French government has promised to destroy a rebellious community of 2000 activists that have squatted for eight years on the site of a proposed airport in Nantes. Known as ZAD, the Zone to Defend, the movement has inspired a range of protests against useless development Continue Reading →
Fresh vegetables were rationed across the UK this month due to climate chaos in Southern Europe. Lettuces, zucchinis and broccoli were rationed and prices rose to four times their normal level. The shortage was exacerbated by uncertain trading arrangements due to Brexit. UK supermarkets have embarked on a program of culling fruit and vegetables that Continue Reading →
Norway has just donated $10 million US dollars to the international campaign to provide family planning services for the world’s most vulnerable women in response to the US Republican Party’s global-gag-rule. The fund was started by the Netherlands and has commitments from Sweden, Denmark, Belgium, Luxembourg, Finland, Canada, and Cape Verde. The US gag-rule removes Continue Reading →
Australia has the opportunity to be a renewable energy superpower, Professor Ross Garnaut said last week. “Nowhere else in the developed world are wind and solar so abundant,” he told and Energy Conference in South Australia. Separately, the renewable energy economic newspaper, RenewEconomy, predicted that the renewable energy market will explode during 2017 with the Continue Reading →