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Girl Power – Solving the problem of population growth

Last Thursday was Blog Action Day: Climate Change.  Thousands of bloggers from around the world, across countries and across topics, took a day to blog about climate change.  It was a profound example of the power of collected action -- nearly 32,000 posts reached an estimated 17 million people. But as I ...

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Bigger Isn’t Better

Farming is not adapted to large-scale operations because of the following reasons: Farming is concerned with plants and animals that live, grow, and die.  - "Ancient" agricultural textbook (Cornell University, 1942) Social systems are not adapted to large-scale operations, because social systems are concerned with humans that live, grow, and die. Part of the problem with society ...

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