An environmental initiative of Mata Amritanandamayi Math
This is a biodynamic and permaculture-based farm at Dartington. See this Guardian article.
Agroforestry, or forest gardening, as practised in Dartington by Martin Crawford. For a longer explanation see:– https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFbcn06h8w4 NEW See:– International Forest Garden / Food Forest Symposium, Online 31 May-4 June 2021 and on-demand
Regenerative agriculture in Spain, where the gaps between vines are no longer ploughed, and the Knepp Estate in UK, where some areas are returning to being farmed. In the rewilding project, biodiversity is the product with meat as a by-product. … Continued
Did you know that plastic packaging can be replaced with material made with mushrooms, and that when the mushroom packaging has been used it can be composted? Have a look at this video (picture above). The same technique can also … Continued
Mangroves cover 13,989 sq km of Brazil’s coast and are an important protection against climate change, with one acre of mangrove forest absorbing nearly the same amount of carbon dioxide as an acre of Amazon rainforest. The forests also protect … Continued
India uses more groundwater than almost any other country, and much of it becomes sewage. Here are some creative solutions: click on each picture to see the story:–
As billions of people isolated around the world in 2020, villagers from Sarayaku, a Kichwa community in the Ecuadorian Amazon, headed deeper into the forest to escape the coronavirus pandemic, after floods due to deforestation destroyed their houses. The journey, … Continued
Please support awareness raising of Saukhyam Pads Saukhyam reusable menstrual pads are inspired by Amma to support nature, using banana fibre which can absorb up to six times its weight in fluid! Watch this short video to see how the … Continued
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/science-environment-56944931 NHS workers at Wales’ largest hospital are creating a woodland to offset the carbon emissions and waste that came from the machines needed to treat patients with Covid-19. Staff on the critical care unit at the University Hospital of … Continued
The Campaign for Rural England has started a series of podcasts describing insights into the countryside. The first one discusses:- what stars you can see in the night sky, and how this is affected by light pollution (how many stars … Continued
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