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- Introduction
- Ecocriticism
- Optimisation
- Grounded Economic Awareness
- Advertising Awareness
- Transition Skills
- Commons Thinking
- Effortless Action
- Permaculture Design
- Community Gardening
- Ecological Intelligence
- Systems Thinking
- Gaia Awareness
- Futures Thinking
- Values Reflection and the Earth Charter
- Social Conscience
- New Media Literacy
- Cultural Literacy
- Carbon Capability
- Greening Business
- Materials Awareness
- Appropriate Technology and Appropriate Design
- Technology Appraisal
- Complexity, Systems Thinking and Practice
- Coping with Complexity
- Emotional Wellbeing
- Finding Meaning Without Consuming
- Being in the World
- Beauty as a Way of Knowing
- Citizen Engagement
- Re-Educating the Person
- Institutional Transformation
- A Learning Society
- Additional chapters
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Community Gardening
Community Gardening: skills for building community and working within environmental limits. Alma Clavin, Leeds School of Architecture, Landscape and Design Leeds Metropolitan University
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The challenges of a changing climate and a peaking oil supply are an opportunity for educators to rethink the kind of community and world we would like to live in. As oil peaks, intensive farming becomes less economical, since it depends on oil and natural gas for pesticides, fertilizers and farm machinery. At the same time, climate change, ecosystem degradation, the demand for biofuels, an increasing population and increasing demand for milk and meat in developing countries, is putting further pressure on food supplies. For many communities, particularly those hardest hit by economic turbulence and extreme weather events, high food prices will present a challenge for survival, and even in rich countries it will become increasingly difficult for many to afford a varied and healthy diet. The ability to work with communities and design and implement gardens that can provide organic produce from minimal resources is therefore an important sustainability literacy skill…
