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The Hidden Cost of Bad System Design

August 8, 2025 Editorial Staff

Understanding the Failure of Poor System Design: The Consequences we continue to experience Why Everything Feels Like It’s Falling Apart: The Hidden Cost of Bad System Design By Chuck Woolery (not the TV guy) and Steven Jay Every […]

Florida: Understanding the benefits of circular economies

May 15, 2025 Editorial Staff

In the heart of a region better known for luxury condos, cruise ports, and palm-lined coastlines, a quieter revolution is unfolding. South Florida—a region long burdened by sprawling development, fragile ecosystems, and waste-heavy industries—is becoming an unlikely proving ground for […]

Understanding the Benefits of Slow Fashion

May 15, 2025 Editorial Staff

A Mobilized News Feature “Fast fashion isn’t free. The environment pays the price.” This simple truth has sparked a powerful global awakening—and given rise to a quiet revolution: slow fashion. In an era defined by mass consumption, quick turnarounds, and […]

“Going Carbon Neutral” campaigns not only push for reduced energy usage and carbon emissions, they also strengthen community. The small town of Ashton Hayes in the UK launched the concept by conducting an audit of the town’s energy use, […]

How to create or join a community shared resources network

February 11, 2024 Editorial Staff

Words: Mobilized News, Streetbank, Shareable, Local Futures Production: Mobilized News Resources: How to start a community tool share 300 Guides to help your community thrive Local Sharing with your neighbors

The Perils of Deep-Sea Mining

January 24, 2024 Editorial Staff

Daniel Kammen: The Perils of Deep-Sea Mining Most of us have never been there but according to a quick Google search, some of the things you might see at the bottom of the ocean include sea spiders, tube worms, […]

Why fertilizer from sewage is a bad idea

January 18, 2024 Editorial Staff

New York Sierra Club’s Tracy Frisch talks about the “forever” chemicals known as PFAS, and why spreading sewage sludge on farmland, as recently recommended by NY Governor Hochul, is a really, really bad idea that will contaminate that farmland forever. […]

Highlights of the Permaculture Design Process

November 30, 2023 Editorial Staff

Permaculture Design, also known as Regenerative Design or Ecological Design, encompasses a range of interconnected practices and principles that harmonize with nature’s wisdom. By observing and imitating natural ecosystems, permaculture design strives to create resilient and productive systems that benefit […]

Financing your Permaculture Business (farm model)

November 30, 2023 Editorial Staff

By Mani Makhija “Permaculture is an approach to designing human settlements and agricultural systems that mimic the relationships found in natural ecologies.” By Mani Makhija It is a philosophy of working with rather than against nature. It is a positive, […]

Building Resilience with Permaculture: Adapting to Climate Change

November 30, 2023 Editorial Staff

Building Resilience with Permaculture: Adapting to Climate Change By Saniya Malhotra The temperature of the earth has risen by 17 degrees Celsius over the last couple of centuries; climate change can no longer be considered a hypothetical possibility. As climate […]

Permaculture marketplace for ethical shopping

November 29, 2023 Editorial Staff

By Saniya Malhotra Shopping seems like a task for most people who want to embrace the permaculture approach to life. When you want to intertwine your life to principles like ‘produce no waste’ or ‘find slow and simple solutions’ or […]

Water from Air: An engineered solution to water scarcity

November 29, 2023 Editorial Staff

By Saniya Malhotra Around 1.1 billion people worldwide lack access to water. Out of the total fresh water on earth, 2/3 is tucked in glaciers and the 1/3 available for use is being polluted, exploited and wasted every single day. […]

What to do with Food Waste if you can’t Compost

November 29, 2023 Editorial Staff

By Saniya Malhotra When we talk about waste, our minds naturally think about plastics – as they are ubiquitous. Surprisingly, two-thirds of the waste that we throw out of our homes every day is in the form of food scraps, vegetable peels, […]

Approaching a Zero-Waste Lifestyle

November 29, 2023 Editorial Staff

PERMACULTURE PRINCIPLES By Saniy Malhotra, Permaculture Education.com Back in college, on one lazy Sunday afternoon, I was lying on bed and browsing through videos on YouTube. Very randomly, I came across this video about a woman who had been storing […]