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Tag Archive: Composting

OUR Ecovillage **Past Enviro Runner-up**

During one week, we’ve been living intensely in an environmental community, called OUR Ecovillage. On their beautiful land near Shawnigan Lake on Vancouver Island (BC, Canada), they try to live as sustainable as possible, and[…]

Green Soil

Pune generates 1700 tons of waste every day. But a family at the heart of this city chose to be different. Green Soil is an inspiring story of how the little family consumes waste around[…]

Soil Revitalization: Farming and Climate Change

Suzanne Nelson, is a cattle farmer and owner of Haw River Ranch in Graham North Carolina. Unfortunately, her livestock has been negatively impacted by sporadic changes in the weather. Nonetheless, Suzanne believes that “fertility in[…]

Clio & Claudia

When Clio and Claudia started the project, Horta de Belloch was a derelict farmhouse in the Catalonian countryside. After months of hard work implementing the principals of permaculture, Clio and Claudia transformed the abandoned land[…]

Bernunça Composter

In 2015, the environmental engineer Pedro Palermo starts a solid waste management work in school Batista Pereira, in Florianópolis / SC – Brazil. Mobilizing different sectors, the agro-ecological education promoted communication between management, teachers, staff[…]

Farmer Incubator

  A film about Farmer Incubator: a community-based initiative that introduces new farmers to grow local food. Filmed around Melbourne, the Farmer Incubator project grows farmers with respect to the community and the environment. Farmer[…]

Vidamour Farm

Following her husband’s stroke, Mabel Vidamour offered her family’s property to the community for public food production. Set on the Mornington Peninsula, Australia, Mabel discusses how her husband’s stroke has influenced their lives on the[…]

Biopori: Saving The Planet One Hole At a Time

This is the story of my stepmom and how she helps the environment by making biopori holes, and how she inspired me and my dad to do the same.   About the Filmmaker Submitted by[…]