tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16801088996394323102024-03-21T15:49:57.378+00:00Sustainable EducationOccasional diary entries about Sustainability in Education, E4S, ESDGC... and my attempts at using the web to inform the debate in Teacher Education.
Site at http://esd.escalate.ac.ukAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14138459497527003728noreply@blogger.comBlogger23125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1680108899639432310.post-72131378764081940232015-12-08T16:24:00.000+00:002015-12-08T16:24:33.475+00:00Agro-Forestry, Nitrogen Fixing Trees and Starting a Tree Nursery. LINKS<div class="MsoNormal">
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I have been hunting on the internet, see links below. I’ll keep looking and
adding links. Please let me know of any additions, errors or omissions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i><a href="mailto:hliebling@gmail.com"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">hliebling@gmail.com</i></a></div>
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Wife in Zambia </span></a><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><br />
Blog Dec 2011 - April 2014 from a Peace Corps couple living and working in
Solwezi Zambia helping the locals with agricultural projects.</span></div>
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<a href="http://zambia.peacecorps.gov/content/projects" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Projects | Peace Corps | Zambia </span></a><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><br />
"Peace Corps Volunteers in Zambia work on a variety of initiatives.
Primary projects focus on Education, Aquaculture, Health and Environment. In
addition all volunteers perform secondary activities relating to HIV/AIDS
prevention as well as other initiatives."</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.africancommunityproject.com/community-forests/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Community Forests | AFRICAN
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"Felix Nguluwe our facilitator has been working very hard at providing
environmental education and how to set up tree nurseries every year. We have
been able to harvest seeds from trees we have planted in the past to distribute
to our other community forests across Zambia and into neighbouring countries.
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<a href="http://conservationagriculture.org/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">CFU Conservation Agriculture in
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"Our CFU Zambia web site is for anybody interested in the promotion of
Conservation Farming and Climate Smart Agriculture and we hope you will find it
useful. In many parts of Africa, stagnant productivity, population pressure,
environmental degradation and the threat of climate change suggest an
increasingly bleak future for millions of African families whose livelihoods
depend on farming."</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.greenpop.org/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Greenpop - Planting trees,
changing lives. Social Enterprise </span></a><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><br />
"Greenpop is on a mission to (re)connect people with our planet & each
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<a href="http://www.znfu.org.zm/farm_forestry" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Farm
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"The Zambia National Farmers’ Union (ZNFU) recognizing the rate of
deforestation in Zambia, embraces the urgent need to reposition agriculture
towards green climate-smart farming practices that will add value on
agriculture as a sector and environmental sustainability on the other
hand."</span></div>
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<a href="http://trees-4-zambia.com/about-us/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">About Us | Trees 4 Zambia </span></a><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><br />
Based in East Lusaka. Indigenous tree nursery.</span></div>
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<a href="http://trees-4-zambia.com/summary-list-of-our-species/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Lists of
Our Species | Trees 4 Zambia </span></a><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><br />
Complete list of what is available. Prices around K20 - K50 for a small
sapling.</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.canadianjesuitsinternational.ca/projects/zambia-kasisi-agricultural-training-centre-katc/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Zambia –
KATC | Canadian Jesuits International </span></a><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><br />
"Vision: Promoting organic, sustainable agriculture to produce more,
healthier crops."</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.plantwise.org/KnowledgeBank/CountryHome.aspx" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Zambia |
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Successive government's keep neglecting the Forestry Department </span></a><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span></div>
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"Agro-forestry Net, Inc. is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing
educational resources about agro-forestry, trees, and sustainable stewardship
of land and water."</span></div>
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"The SIDALC Alliance provides access to information generated throughout
the Americas and stored in Agricultural Institutes, its libraries and other
related information centers." (Orton CATIE)</span></div>
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<a href="https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=t-9Jm0FC82sC&pg=PP3&lpg=PP3&dq=Lusaka+Forest+Nursery&source=bl&ots=M_N6HvGFTw&sig=I08L6KY6kA_QsB0fhuy9C1dKTsc&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CDsQ6AEwAjgKahUKEwiXu4vi-pLJAhXIVxoKHRusDjg" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">CIFOR
annual report 2008 : Thinking beyond the canopy - Cifor - Google Books </span></a><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><br />
Sweetening the deal for Zambia's honey industry. p22-23</span></div>
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<a href="https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Idf8wbitYU8C&pg=PR11&lpg=PR11&dq=Lusaka+Forest+Nursery&source=bl&ots=O77qU2pPJI&sig=WjaVxREykPhktc3k30JB7egPCnY&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CEAQ6AEwCWoVChMI5PazjvKSyQIVQT0UCh3e3AIi" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The Dry
Forests and Woodlands of Africa: Managing for Products and Services - E. N.
Chidumayo, D. J. Gumbo Google Books </span></a><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><br />
2010 with 30 contributors on Google books. 3+ from Zambia</span></div>
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Agroforestry</span></a><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">,</span></div>
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Products and Trade | Center for International Forestry Research </span></a><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><br />
"Timber, nuts, fruits, resins, gums and charcoal are only a handful of the
many forest products that people have been collecting and harvesting for
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"Working to alleviate poverty and preserve the natural environment in
Africa for present and future generations through support for community tree
planting" PATIA, fiohnetwork.org</span></div>
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"Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) is an
effort to create a financial value for the carbon stored in forests"
Zambia a participant</span></div>
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CIFOR's guide to forests, climate change and REDD | Center for International
Forestry Research </span></a><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><br />
"Center for International Forestry Research" Reduction in Emissions
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Sustainable Future: Success, challenges and ways forward.</span><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: MinionPro-Bold; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">This publication was produced for the XIV</span><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: MinionPro-Bold; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">World Forestry
Congress 2015, Durban,</span><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: MinionPro-Bold; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">South Africa.</span></div>
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"State of Forest and Tree Genetic Resources in Zambia" P M Sekeli
& M Phiri FAO May 2002</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.treeaid.org.uk/about-us/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">TREE AID: who we are </span></a><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><br />
"To enable people living in the dry-lands of Africa to unlock the
potential of trees to reduce poverty and protect the environment"</span></div>
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"Trees make the land more fertile by keeping the top soil in place and
putting important nutrients back into the ground. Their roots stabilise the
ground preventing it from being washed away during the annual rains. Trees
mean: food, vitamins and nutrients all year round, even when other crops fail;
money from selling tree products to buy food, education and health; health as
some trees can be used in natural medicines; enriched soil, making the land
more fertile for crops to grow; shade from the scorching heat for people,
wildlife and for the crops; tools and shelter made from bark and fallen
wood"</span></div>
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Insight series: Building Resilience to Climate Shocks </span></a><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><br />
"'Climate resilience’ is how prepared a system is to withstand weather
extremes, without losing its ability to function properly. These “systems”
could be ecosystems or social systems. " 5pp pdf</span></div>
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<a href="http://internationaltreefoundation.org/why-trees/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Why
Trees? - International Tree Foundation </span></a><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><br />
"Trees are a vital part of our planet’s ecosystem. We all rely on trees
and their products: oxygen, fruits, wood, water, medicines and soil nutrients
to name a few."</span></div>
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<a href="http://worldagroforestry.org/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">World Agro-forestry Centre |
TRANSFORMING LIVES AND LANDSCAPES </span></a><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: yellow; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-highlight: yellow;">Manuals, Guidelines and Information.</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span></b></div>
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<a href="http://kasisiagriculture.com/documents.htm" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Kasisi Agricultural Training
Centre </span></a><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><br />
An excellent source of KATC <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">training
manuals</b> in pdf format.</span></div>
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<a href="http://conservationagriculture.org/conservation-farming-information" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Conservation
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">information packs</b> for Zambian
farmers</span></div>
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<a href="http://conservationagriculture.org/cfu-research" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">CFU
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important research articles about bio-char and other subjects</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.treesforthefuture.org/resource-center/?did=3" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Trees for
the Future » Resource Center </span></a><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><br />
"<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Agroforestry Manual</b> - English
(small)" Excellent simple and detailed information on tree planting and
many species.</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.treesforthefuture.org/resource-center/?did=4" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Trees for
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"Good Tree Nursery Practices: <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Practical
Guidelines</b> for Community Nurseries" IRAF 2014 Very detailed</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.treesforthefuture.org/resource-center/?did=2" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Trees for
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"Design, Construction and Management of a Nursery PowerPoint <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Presentation</b>" Short, useful
presentation 2011</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.treesforthefuture.org/resource-center/?did=5" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Trees for
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"Trees and the Environment (<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Manual
Section</b>)" 4th ed'n 2014 version of start of manual 11pp</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.slideshare.net/agroforestry/12-patrickvandammeforeststreesforsustainabledietstreediversityday2014cop12" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">12 patrick-van-damme-forests-trees-for-sustainable-diets-tree-diversi…
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=723&v=WTBf32QQudI" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Kasisi
2015: "The Art of Mimicking Nature" - <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">YouTube</b> </span></a><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><br />
Published on 30 Apr 2015 "The Art of Mimicking Nature": How Kasisi
Agricultural Training College is promoting organic farming in Zambia."</span></div>
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=168&v=wt7SDcPFqh4" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">50
Million Trees and Counting Trees for the Future - <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">YouTube</b> </span></a><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><br />
"This 8 minute video documents the work of the late Dave Deppner and Trees
for the Future. Communities around the world turn to Trees for the Future for
technical knowledge and planting materials so that they can bring degraded
lands and struggling farmlands back to sustainable productivity. Since 1988,
Trees for the Future (TFTF) has helped thousands of communities in Central
America, Africa, and Asia improve their livelihoods"</span></div>
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TREE SPECIES - <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">YouTube</b> </span></a><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><br />
"A farmer from the NW Region of Cameroon explains the uses of different
tree species. These species, and many others, were grown in nurseries as part
of the Eucalyptus Replacement Project which replaced 1.5 million felled
eucalyptus trees with 3 million trees (60 species) for agro-forestry and water
catchment preservation. The project was carried out in two stages between 2004
and 2009 and was funded by the Future in Our Hands"</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">Information on Trees and other plant Species</span></b></div>
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<a href="http://www.tropicalforages.info/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Tropical Forages </span></a><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Amazing site with factsheets and
a selection tool.</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.tropicalforages.info/key/Forages/Media/Html/Cajanus_cajan.htm" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Factsheet - Cajanus cajan </span></a><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.tropicalforages.info/key/Forages/Media/Html/Calliandra_calothyrsus.htm" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Factsheet - Calliandra calothyrsus </span></a><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.tropicalforages.info/key/Forages/Media/Html/Erythrina_poeppigiana.htm" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Factsheet - Erythrina poeppigiana </span></a><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.tropicalforages.info/key/Forages/Media/Html/Gliricidia_sepium.htm" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Factsheet - Gliricidia sepium </span></a><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.tropicalforages.info/key/Forages/Media/Html/Leucaena_leucocephala.htm" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Factsheet - Leucaena leucocephala </span></a><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span></div>
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casuarina" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Casuarina - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia </span></a><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">NFT from Australia. Regarded as
invasive by some. Makes soil more acidic!</span></div>
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azadirachta_indica" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Azadirachta indica - Wikipedia, the free
encyclopedia </span></a><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">"Azadirachta indica, also
known as Neem, Nimtree, & Indian Lilac is a tree in the mahogany family
Meliaceae." drought resistant, evergreen, shade tree, neem oil has many
medicinal & pest control uses. Illegal in UK!, soap made from neem oil.
Used in India for millenia.</span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Copy this file and make it your own. Try the videos if you can. The
manuals are at different levels and detail. You have permission to use them as long as you acknowledge the source. I've had very positive feedback from nearly all the sites mentioned here. The “forest forages” software could
be very helpful, but you can use their fact sheets anyway. “Trees for the
Future” reckons to plant a tree for 10cents. $50 = 500 saplings! Currently not
in Zambia. Tree Aid cover all costs for £10 a tree.</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">This code gives you access to the Outliner
in Diigo, a set of links.</i></div>
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<a href="https://www.diigo.com/outliner/85lq11/NFT?key=f7x48dznfv">https://www.diigo.com/outliner/85lq11/NFT?key=f7x48dznfv</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Henry Liebling
November 2015</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14138459497527003728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1680108899639432310.post-21746259552978442902015-12-08T16:16:00.000+00:002015-12-08T16:28:18.927+00:00Deforestation in N W Province Zambia around Mwinilunga<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Sorry not to have blogged during 2015. Will explain in a future blog.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This is a long one! The full set of LINKS are in a separate blog.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In early October 2015 Cynthia & I returned to Zambia
after 43 years. Charlie Rea very kindly met us in Ndola and flew us up to
Mwinilunga. We were surprised to see that much of the Mwinilunga Secondary school
farm, that Steve Bodsworth & I ran and developed, has been built on, the
fish ponds are still there, but not being used. Mwinilunga is hardly
recognisable with a new concrete bridge replacing the narrow open wooden one
and a broad tar road replacing the red mud cart track of the 1970’s. The 1 bar
and 2 shops have grown into a large town with serious markets, many shops and a
bank. The township has enlarged significantly and many new communities with
well built houses have sprung up alongside the new road. Much of the available
land is cultivated where before it was bush or forest. The extent of the de-forestation
visible from the air is significant. I was upset at how few trees there are
where once I remember forest. No trees, no rain, no water, no rivers, no fish,
no food.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Look at Nyangombe, using Google earth, and the tree cover
around the Training Centre is clearly evident as an oasis of tree cover. The
population has grown, Zambia is exporting maize, crops have to be grown. We saw
a lorry loaded with pineapples bound for Lusaka, a store filled with maize
ready to sell to the Gov’t, some excellent vegetable plots and a promising fish
farm. Most villages had fruit trees, shelter trees and a church or chapel. A
number of significant hydro-electric schemes provide their local areas with
sustainable electricity. Some of the old PFAs Protected Forest Areas are still
in place, but trees are chopped down for chitemene (slash & burn), to
provide fire wood, to fire bricks, for building and furniture and to make
charcoal (much of it for the towns and cities especially when the electricity
is cut due to load shedding). Charles Sachikando who trains the carpenters
talked about the increasing difficulty of getting hold of Mukwa timber but that
Ikamba was readily available. His trainee carpenters are making quality doors
and furniture. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He mentioned the old
Lunda custom of planting a tree when a child is born and how that seems to have
died out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">We were concerned to have found little or no sign of any
tree planting schemes, tree nurseries or any initiatives to encourage
agro-forestry in or around Mwinilunga. One or two people we spoke to are aware
of the potential for NFT nitrogen fixing trees. No-one has heard of bio-char. We
saw an abandoned Community Farming Project site near Mutanda Falls, outside
Solwezi. Maybe they had tried forage plants, hedges and intercropping. We found
a glimmer of hope meeting Anita, who works with Ross and Mel Ferguson at the
newly formed, currently being built Orphanage, just above the river below
Nyangombe. Anita has always been a keen gardener and has already started
collecting seeds and planting them to produce saplings and grow fruit and
vegetables. She knows about and understands the Miambo forest. Our hope is that
with some help and encouragement she will be able to develop a local tree
nursery in which the orphans can participate as they grow up.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Using the internet helped track down a few hopeful places
in or around Lusaka. We had one day before our flight back. Sandy’s Creations
Garden Centre sells good quality saplings and larger trees, mainly ornamental
and fruit, for between K40 and K85. Casurina, the only NFT, had sold out this
season and costs K45. After some serious phoning around and queries by our taxi
driver we found the old Woodlands Nursery, the original Lusaka Forest Nursery
from the 1950’s. The 1955 bulletins are available online for £30 - £50, so
still in demand! David Masamo and his colleagues were very helpful, delighted
to show us round and very knowledgeable about the numerous different saplings
they had and their potential for agro-forestry, soil and crop improvement and
re-forestation. Prices were K5 or K10. They were unable to give us any
information about Tree Nurseries in either Solwezi or Mwinilunga. We didn’t get
to meet anyone from CIFOR, but have since learnt of Davison Gumbo’s work at
national and international level. Maybe we were looking in the wrong place and
should have gone to the Ministry of Lands, <span class="st">Natural Resources and
Environmental Protection</span>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Sadly we didn’t have time to visit the following Zambian
initiatives:</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">KATC</span></b><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Kasisi Agricultural Training Centre, 30km from
Lusaka where Canadian Jesuits have been running farming and agro-forestry
courses since 1974, started by Br Paul Desmarais. Interestingly they changed to
organic farming methods in 1990’s and have an excellent collection of guides
and manuals. </span><a href="http://kasisiagriculture.com/documents.htm" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Kasisi Agricultural Training Centre </span></a><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
<span class="description">An excellent source of KATC training manuals in pdf
format.</span> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Also a recent 30min video, worth a look. </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=723&v=WTBf32QQudI" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Kasisi 2015: "The Art of Mimicking Nature" -
YouTube </span></a><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
<span class="description">30 Apr 2015. How Kasisi Agricultural Training College
is promoting organic farming in Zambia."</span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Trees for Zambia</span></b><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> founded and still run
by Adam and Claire Pope. </span><a href="http://trees-4-zambia.com/about-us/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">About
Us | Trees 4 Zambia </span></a><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><br />
<span class="description">Based in East Lusaka. Indigenous tree nursery.</span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Conservation Farming
Unit</span></b><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">,
now on Leopards Hill Rd, with influential director Peter Aagaard who has done
much research and development, with some very interesting work on bio-char and
information packs for Zambian farmers. <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><a href="http://conservationagriculture.org/cfu-research" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">CFU Research </span></a><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span class="description">Important research
articles about bio-char and other subjects. </span></span></div>
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<span class="description"><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">"Our </span></span><a href="http://conservationagriculture.org/"><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">CFU Zambia web site</span></a><span class="description"><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>is for anybody interested in the promotion of
Conservation Farming and Climate Smart Agriculture and we hope you will find it
useful. In many parts of Africa, stagnant productivity, population pressure,
environmental degradation and the threat of climate change suggest an
increasingly bleak future for millions of African families whose livelihoods
depend on farming."</span></span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">We
feel this statement summarises both the problem and potential solutions. It
suggests that farmers will need to adapt and mitigate the effects of climate
change, make best use of existing forests and cultivated land, take control of
their own seeds and saplings, and reduce their reliance on fossil fuels for
fertilizer, farm work and transport. <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This can be achieved by: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">rolling back the effects of deforestation with
extensive </span><a href="http://www.africancommunityproject.com/community-forests/"><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">localised
tree planting schemes</span></a><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">, </span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">continuing to develop small scale sustainable
agriculture, </span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">using local affordable resources to improve the
soil, improve diversity and yields using techniques from: </span></div>
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</span></span></span><a href="http://www.znfu.org.zm/farm_forestry"><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">agro-forestry</span></a><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> (</span><a href="http://www.cifor.org/forest-products-and-trade/"><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">forest products</span></a><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> such
as timber, charcoal, bio-char, honey, fruit, jam, oil, soap, medicines..)</span></div>
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</span></span></span><a href="https://www.transitionnetwork.org/stories/ann-owen/2014-01/trouble-permaculture"><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">permaculture</span></a><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">
(planning for a particular terrain, </span><a href="http://conservationagriculture.org/history-of-the-conservation-farming-unit-zambia"><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">minimum
or no till</span></a><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">, forest gardens..)<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">organic farming, seed collection and
distribution, natural pesticides, companion planting, intercropping</span></div>
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</span></span></span><a href="http://conservationagriculture.org/uploads/pdf/cfu-research/BOICHAR%20LIFE%20CYCLE%20ASSESSEMENT%20NGI-CFU%202012.pdf"><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">bio-char
from hulled corn cobs</span></a><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">, and <span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">careful use of NFT nitrogen fixing trees for
soil improvement, forage, food, shade and timber/firewood. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This
is a big ask for Mwinilunga District; can more of it be done?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A </span><a href="http://zambia.peacecorps.gov/content/projects"><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Peace Corps</span></a><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">
couple in Solwezi: </span><a href="https://annieandandrew.wordpress.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">annieandandrew | Andrew and The Wife in Zambia </span></a><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
<span class="description">This blog from Dec 2011 - April 2014 from a Peace Corps
couple living and working in Solwezi Zambia helping the locals with
agricultural projects, provides many examples of the work that can be done.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">At the National and international level, there is a legacy
of work from R K Hart (1955 Lusaka Nursery Bulletins), D B Fanshawe, (1971
Vegetation of Zambia), to Emmanuel Chidumayo (1995 handbook on miambo ecology
and management) and Davison Gumbo, KATC’s Br Paul Desmarais, Peter Aagaard at
CFU.... current initiatives include </span><a href="http://www.un-redd.org/aboutredd"><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">REDD+</span></a><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(</span><a href="https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=12&ved=0CEEQFjABOApqFQoTCPbd0OXLl8kCFQXYGgodjesKAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Finfo.undp.org%2Fdocs%2Fpdc%2FDocuments%2FZMB%2FZambia%2520REDD%2B%2520Strategy%2520(FINAL%2520ed.)%2520(2).pdf&usg=AFQjCNHb"><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Reducing
Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation</span></a><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">), <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><a href="http://www.fao.org/forestry/agroforestry/en/"><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">FAO Agroforestry</span></a><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">, ......</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Futher afield there is extensive quality information and
help. </span><a href="http://agroforestry.net/"><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Agroforestry.net</span></a><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">, </span><a href="http://www.tropicalforages.info/index.htm"><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Tropical forages</span></a><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">, </span><a href="http://orton.catie.ac.cr/en"><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Orton.catie.ac.cr</span></a>, <a href="http://www.treesforthefuture.org/resource-center/?did=3" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Trees for
the Future » Resource Center </span></a><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">, </span><a href="http://www.treeaid.org.uk/our-work/why-trees/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Why trees
mean life - TREE AID </span></a><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">, </span><a href="http://www.fiohnetwork.org/patia/index.htm" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">PLANT A
TREE IN AFRICA </span></a><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">.</span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Basically we feel that there have been promising
initiatives and research by different groups and individuals, but little
evidence of the theories, plans and promises being put into practice especially
in the NW Province. This presents an enormous challenge, but we wondered if the
information presented in this briefing paper might help to inspire the
formation of tree nurseries in the NW Province alongside promised Gov’t
initiatives. Do you know of any local tree planting initiatives or tree
nurseries? Do you know of interested individuals who might be able to help in
some way, or who might make a small start armed with some of this information?
What might they need? A small patch of land, a supply of good quality seed
&/or saplings, a handbook, some labour, plastic sleeves, compost, soil and
water! As a family we are happy to try to make small initial contributions to
help get individuals or groups started.</span></div>
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We will be very happy to receive any response to this
briefing paper. <a href="mailto:hlieblng@gmail.com">hlieblng@gmail.com</a></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Cynthia and Henry Liebling have just
returned from a three week<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>trip to
Nyangombe Training Centre near Mwinlunga in the NW Province of Zambia staying
with their old friends Les & Jean White. Cynthia & Henry went to teach
at Mwinilunga Secondary school in Dec 1969, after completing a secondary PGCE
at the University of Zambia in Lusaka. In September 1972 they left Mwinilunga
with a toddler and a baby to return to UK. Henry was head of Science and
together with Steve Bodsworth ran and developed the school farm. Cynthia taught
English.</span></i></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14138459497527003728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1680108899639432310.post-35634480278701133122014-07-09T11:30:00.000+01:002014-07-09T11:30:26.186+01:00 Ireland's National Strategy on Education for Sustainable Development, 2014-2020The Minister for Education and Skills, Ruairí Quinn, T.D., today
published the “National Strategy on Education for Sustainable
Development, 2014-2020”, Ireland’s first such strategy.<br />
<br />
Education for sustainable development fosters and strengthens the
capacity of individuals to make judgments and choices in favor of
sustainable development.<br />
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The Strategy aims to ensure that learners are equipped with the relevant
knowledge, and the key dispositions, skills and values to motivate and
empower them to become informed citizens acting for a more sustainable
future.<br />
<br />
Eight ‘priority action areas’ have been identified. They include
leadership and coordination, data collection and baseline measurement,
and promoting participation by young people in decisions that affect
them.<br />
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Each of the eight priority areas has a series of recommendations. These
recommendations encompass all areas of the education system, from
pre-school through to further and higher education, as well as
non-formal and community education, and the Youth sector.<br />
<br />
The ESD plan promotes greater participation by children and young people
in decisions that affect them within the education sector, principally
through student councils. This is in keeping with the Minister’s drive
to ensure the voice of students is included in education. The
establishment of more student councils at primary level will be
encouraged, and the existing student council model at post primary level
will be reviewed.<br />
<br />
Welcoming the Strategy, Minister Quinn highlighted the importance of the
Department of Education and Skills promoting sustainability in its own
practice, “As an architect, I am delighted that the Department has won
awards for sustainable design in our school building projects.<br />
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“This National ESD Strategy commits the Department to continue to build
infrastructure that is cutting edge in terms of sustainability, as well
as seeking to reduce its own energy usage and that of other institutions
within the education sector.”<br />
<br />
“I would like to extend my appreciation to those who generously
contributed their time and expertise. In implementing the ESD Strategy,
the Department will be seeking to work closely with you in this
important area.”<br />
<br />
An ESD Advisory Group is to be established, representing stakeholders,
and chaired by a DES official, for exchanging best practice, building
partnerships and mobilising stakeholders.<br />
<br />
The publication of the National Strategy for ESD fulfils Ireland’s
commitments under the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable
Development. It is also one of the commitments in Our Sustainable
Future, the National Strategy on Sustainable Development, which was
published by the Department of Environment, Community and Local
Government in 2012.<br />
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<br />
Eight priority action areas:<br />
<br />
1. Leadership and coordination<br />
<br />
2. Data collection and baseline measurement<br />
<br />
3. Curriculum at pre-school, primary and post-primary<br />
<br />
4. Professional development<br />
<br />
5. Further education and training<br />
<br />
6. Higher education and research<br />
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7. Promoting participation by young people<br />
<br />
8. Sustainability in action<br />
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The report is available at <a href="http://www.education.ie/en/Publications/Education-Reports/National-Strategy-on-Education-for-Sustainable-Development-in-Ireland-2014-2020.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.education.ie/en/<wbr></wbr>Publications/Education-<wbr></wbr>Reports/National-Strategy-on-<wbr></wbr>Education-for-Sustainable-<wbr></wbr>Development-in-Ireland-2014-<wbr></wbr>2020.pdf</a><br />
- See more at: <a href="http://www.education.ie/en/Press-Events/Press-Releases/2014-Press-Releases/PR14-07-04.html#sthash.Ci9YjTNd.dpuf" target="_blank">http://www.education.ie/en/<wbr></wbr>Press-Events/Press-Releases/<wbr></wbr>2014-Press-Releases/PR14-07-<wbr></wbr>04.html#sthash.Ci9YjTNd.dpuf</a><br />
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14138459497527003728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1680108899639432310.post-84356977636157366962014-06-25T16:05:00.001+01:002014-06-25T16:05:09.590+01:00Disruptive Innovation Festival official launch video 2014<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/C01OQTQsoWc" width="480"></iframe>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14138459497527003728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1680108899639432310.post-62858102462617558162014-01-24T17:56:00.000+00:002014-01-24T17:56:08.372+00:00Do we know what we are doing? New online text and some other things!<b>Do we know what we are doing? Reflections on learning, knowledge, economics, community and<br />sustainability.</b><br />
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<b> </b>Rolf Jucker has just published what he terms "his farewell text on ESD" text online. I an impressed by the depth and breadth of his thinking. Do have a look. <a href="http://rolfjucker.net/">http://rolfjucker.net/ </a><br />
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Abstract: The discourse of education for sustainability has been severely limited by the fact that it<br />largely refuses to acknowledge important insights from other fields of learning and<br />knowledge. A denial to engage with central insights with regard to how the world and more<br />specifically how human interaction with the human and non-human world work means that<br />it has been to a large extent a self-centred discourse. It is tangled up in reflections on<br />education without contextualising this in the real world. My main point is that not just<br />education in general, but also so-called education for sustainable development (ESD) needs<br />to perform a radical paradigm shift and become communal learning in real-time in a real<br />place. And this necessitates a willingness to face some tough questions on the prevailing<br />denial. (Berne, 2014)<br /><br />
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<b>Se-ed</b> are continuing to do great things and are running a series of webinars at around £10 a throw.<br />
<a href="http://se-ed.co.uk/edu/">http://se-ed.co.uk/edu/ </a><br />
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Ellen McArthur is busy at Davos and Unilever have just joined her Circular Economy group. Also The Ellen Mc Arthur Foundation has just published the 3rd chapter of their work to try and mainstream Circular Economy thinking and turn it into practice.<br />
<a href="http://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/news/project-mainstream">http://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/news/project-mainstream</a><br />
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"Following the release of <em><a href="http://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/business/reports/ce2014">Towards the Circular Economy vol.3</a></em>, the Ellen MacArthur Foundation announces <strong>Project Mainstream</strong>,
a collaborative project which could help businesses to shift towards a
circular economy and as a result save US$ 500 million in materials and
prevent 100 million tonnes of waste globally."<br />
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Saw a 3D printer at work yesterday. Hard to believe what I was seeing and touching.Imagine wanting a part for a machine and living far away from the parts dept. A local 3D printer could be the solution. Find and download the software and away you go.<br />
Here's a tale for you! In 1971 in Mwinilunga, NW province of Zambia, near the source of the great Zambezi river, we were working in a secondary school of 800+ students and 100+ staff when the town water-pump broke. We, well mainly my colleague Steve Bodsworth, kept the school and hospital going for 3 months until the parts arrived. Households had to survive on two buckets of water a day. Luckily we had just installed two 2000 gallon tanks on the school farm. These were uprooted and one placed near the school kitchens and the other by the hospital. Then making one out of two very old 250cc Villiers water-pumps useable, borrowing a 500 gallon water-bowser, putting onto a "donated" gov't trailer hauled by a borrowed land-rover, Steve filled up the two tanks nearly every day for months taking water from the river Lunga. The pupils washed in the river and kept a look-out for crocs!<br />
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14138459497527003728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1680108899639432310.post-18725301268223990762013-11-06T18:12:00.002+00:002013-11-06T18:12:52.918+00:00The Global Learning Programme (GLP) <div class="ecxMsoNormal">
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The
Global Learning Programme is funded by the Department for International
Development and runs from 2013 to 2017. It is managed by a consortium
of leading global learning and educational organisations: Pearson
(lead), Geographical Association, Institute of Education, Oxfam UK,
Royal Geographical Society, SSAT and Think Global. The Institute of
Education (through DERC) is leading on two workstreams: Continuing
Professional Development and Research and Evaluation. </span> </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">We
are delighted to let you know about the new Global Learning Programme
(GLP) for England which launches this month. The GLP is a
ground-breaking new programme which will create a national network of
like-minded schools, committed to equipping their pupils to make a
positive contribution to a globalised world by helping their teachers to
deliver effective teaching and learning about development and global
issues at Key Stages 2 and 3. </span></div>
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<span class="ecxa3"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The
programme supports teachers to help their pupils learn about the
challenges our world faces and think critically about how to deal with
issues such as poverty, inequality and sustainability. It helps pupils
make sense</span></span><span class="ecxa3"><span style="color: #233f8f; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">of the world in which they live and to understand their role within a global society. It <span class="ecxa3">puts
a primary focus on developing pupil’s knowledge and understanding of
development and global issues through subject-based learning in key
curriculum areas. It also recognises the important role global learning
initiatives can have in encouraging pupils’ values and skills
development.</span></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The GLP offers schools in England: </span><span style="color: black;"></span></b></div>
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<li class="ecxMsoNormal" style="color: black; line-height: 110%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">A
free peer-led locally-based programme of support to enhance teaching
about global issues and whole school approaches to global learning; </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 110%;"></span></li>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Twitter: </span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">@glp-e</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14138459497527003728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1680108899639432310.post-77247263095602838652012-02-02T12:57:00.001+00:002012-02-02T16:37:22.391+00:00A Sense of Place<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">A sense of place</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">What might this mean to have “<a href="http://esd.escalate.ac.uk/2214">a sense of place</a>”? </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Is it somewhere we know, belong, relate to, feel safe in, are drawn to, feel at home in, long for, dream about, think about often, remember fondly, use as a reference point to compare with other places, place our heart upon, store our treasures there, feel treasured there, go to sleep there, meditate, make love, bring our friends, wish to share with others, keep secret, keep clean and tidy, look after, care for, feel a part of?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Is it large or small, low or high, indoors or outside, here and now or elsewhere, maybe always elsewhere? Is it where our roots are, where we were born and grew up, our parents home, our “<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heimat">heimat</a>”, where our ancestors are buried or roam?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">It is and can be all of these things</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The scale can be from a mere fleeting thought, through heart-felt musings, a doll’s house filled with carefully placed ideas and memories, a photo album of the past, a room, sitting on a loving parent’s knee, a bench overlooking a mere with birds swooping, swans almost still, gently moving surface, breeze in the leaves of a willow caressing the lake’s edge on a cool Spring morning behind <a href="http://www.naturalengland.org.uk/ourwork/conservation/designatedareas/nnr/1006125.aspx">Rostherne</a> church where I was christened.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">It could be your first home or your last home, the backyard, street or garden, shared games with mates on a summer’s day, being called in to bed whilst it’s still light, but nearly 9pm.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The smell of pine forest, collecting and cooking wild mushrooms, so much knowledge transmitted by a loving parent, mediated learning of all that surrounds me.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The dales, each so different, yet so familiar, the field patterns, the cows and sheep, ducks and geese flying, dusk sounds of nesting and preparations for the night, open fires, baked potatoes too hot to hold, being part of a group, maybe a family old or new, maybe friends or better in some ways with strangers sharing a love of place, a refuge in the mountains.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Going for a “pee” at 2am, unzipping the tent, no light pollution, Ibex hooves clattering on the rocks below <a href="http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/773">Mont Perdu</a> above a frozen lake at over 2500 metres, the whole sky filled with stars, feeling in awe yet part of the universe. We are all star dust.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> <br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Write about your “Place”.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">An autobiography in 10 chapters. Maybe just the headings with a brief comment on each. Perhaps start with a time line of your life. Then annotate it. Look for the “sense of place”. Could start with a list of “Places where I have lived”.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">A set of photos, across time, old and recent and space close up and panoramic views. Could be images of just one place. Google sense of place and look at images.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://www.transitionnetwork.org/transition-2">Transition 2.0 to be shown today! </a></span></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14138459497527003728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1680108899639432310.post-48948798893274213152011-05-11T11:39:00.000+01:002011-05-11T11:39:47.696+01:00Willow and other materials for making baskets and plant supports.What a boring title. I've been on two 1day courses for working with basket making materials.<br />
Firstly, here in Bristol making plant supports and a willow ball (much enjoyed by Molly & Flo's two kittens Nim & Trixie. Imogen & I repeated the willow ball (with a small sponge tennis ball in the middle, removed once the structure was self suporting) and she made an excellent willow ball for her guinea pig. The plant support is holding up the huge pink Peonies by the front door. The larger, taller plant support will be for runner beans, transplanted yesterday.<br />
The second workshop this April was given by our friends Jane & Peter at their place near Mirande in SW France, where they have been for 11 years now, teaching & practicing permaculture. A walk through their woods revealed many differnet materials which can be used for making things using basket weaving techniques. We gathered Hazel (thick & thin), Butcher's Broom (prickly with red berries but wonderfully straight and green), wild Clematis (old vines make excellent basket handles), Broom (covered in yellow flowers) and noticed the difference made by managing the woodland (also, badger setts, old tracks, ditches and the remains of a large pit alledgedly used for an arms cache by the Resistance during WWII). I spent a morning with them coppicing two old Hazel coppices, using some of the material for a bean frame. Yes I know we should be harvesting in late winter when the sap is not rising. After an excellent lunch, (we all brought food to share, amazing how this always seems to work with no planning), we made frames for the baskets and then set about weaving them. Jane had plenty of dried bullrushes dampened and wrapped in old wet towels. I have never used rushes before and found them to be a wonderful material to handle. She also has rows of different willow growing, some of which had been harvested, stored and then put in an old bath to soak for a few days prior to use in order to soften them. I made a little basket from fresh Hazel, Butcher's Broom and old dried (redampened/softened) rushes. We swapped some different willow cuttings.<br />
It is hard to convey the atmosphere of joy and frustration, satisfaction and wonder amongst the group mostly making a basket for the first time. I am more determined than ever to teach the grandchildren how to make things themsleves using natural materials (often found) and basket weaving techniques.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14138459497527003728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1680108899639432310.post-67131054615077433232011-02-16T12:03:00.000+00:002011-02-16T12:03:42.368+00:00What a mixture - wabi sabi, Tesco, non-linear pedagogy and Globalisation.<b>Convergence today of a number of very diverse findings. Or are they?</b><br />
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I am "<a href="http://esd.escalate.ac.uk/2509">Exploring non-linear pedagogical approaches to ESDGC</a>".<br />
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<a href="http://www.newint.org/blog/2011/02/10/tesco/">"Oh no Tesco!"</a> New Internationalist Blog about a Tesco supermarket opening in Keynsham near Bristol. Read the comments.<br />
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An article on Pelican web about "<a href="http://www.pelicanweb.org/solisustv07n02page6.html">The biology of Globalisation</a>".<br />
<h2><span style="font-size: small;">LESSONS OF NATURE</span></h2>• All living systems self-organize and maintain themselves by the same biological principles, which we can identify and abstract.<br />
• Among the principles essential to the health of living systems are empowered participation of all parts and continual negotiation of self-interest at all levels of organization.<br />
• Humanity constitutes a living system within the larger living system of our Earth.<br />
• Essential to the health of humanity is empowered participation of all humans and negotiated self-interest among individual, local and global economies as well as the Earth itself.<br />
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An e-mail about <a href="http://www.vajradarshini.com/wabi_sabi_article.html">wabi sabi with a quote from "The Soul of Rumi"</a>.<br />
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How much longer will my poor old shed last? <br />
The decay, weathering and changes after a hard winter.<br />
The soil crumbly from the frost. Weeds enjoying freedom. <br />
Clearing dead leaves from the pond. Sorry sleeping frog!<br />
Cutting some willow.<br />
Make something with the grandchildren over half term?<br />
Raking up windblown rubbish and have a bonfire.<br />
The snowdrops and croci emerging.<br />
Catkins on the hazel bushes. Birdsong.<br />
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<div class="MsoNormal">If I had enough time, I’d work on the barn more slowly, say no not today, maybe tomorrow I’ll help you sort out *&%^$** .</div><div class="MsoNormal">I’d play my saxophone every day, use my rowing machine and lose that extra stone, play the guitar again, dig over my allotment more thoroughly, not in such a rush, enjoying the moment, the smell of the broken soil, watching the worms, the earwig scuttling off, carefully picking out every last bit of fragile, white bindweed root …..</div><div class="MsoNormal">but in fact I’m trying to practise Permaculture, so I don’t dig over the whole allotment ever, usually I leave it covered perhaps with a green manure such as field beans or cardboard, composted leaves or leave the stalks with seed heads for the birds and the untidy joy of the seasons displayed, first frost on browning leaves.</div><div class="MsoNormal">Yes it is autumn now, the leaves so colourful have started falling in earnest now.</div><div class="MsoNormal">Each time I drive to Rob’s deserted deathly hush flat there are more leaves on the pavements of Redland, leaves being removed from green Clifton lawns and yes our Green has been covered, overshadowed, lost, yet not gone in our hearts. Molly his just teenage daughter still senses his presence.</div><div class="MsoNormal">For 15 days I’ve been stirring up his immaculately organised stuff, delving into his affairs, stopping his life with letters, death certificates, phone calls, moves towards probate, an ever approaching finality<span> </span>,<span> </span>that my son-in-law and friend is really dead, his goods and chattels dispersed, his life deconstructed.</div><div class="MsoNormal">Beautifully shaped yellow maple leaves waiting to fall. The red leaves on the Japanese maple next to the Buddha in my garden who gently smiles at me.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Robert Leslie Green 12<sup>th</sup> August 1964 – 8<sup>th</sup> October 2010 </div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14138459497527003728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1680108899639432310.post-35919155489172991992010-08-13T23:23:00.000+01:002010-08-13T23:23:29.116+01:00Making your own timber and furniture oilBeen treating the barn framework with a mixture of 60% linseed oil, 40% turpentine and a drying agent 2%. The old timber beams and uprights needed wirebrushing and cleaning, but now they are all painted with the oil, the colours in the wood stand out. Some of the timbers are pre1750, most from early 1800s, all very local I think. Many had already been used a couple of times at least. 5 new timbers were from local oak trees cut up by Phillipe Abadie at the saw mill less than a kilometre away, and delivered as green oak in Sept 2008, when we started the barn renovation, so lees than 2 years old. The oldest timbers are nearly black and deeply grained, the 1800s uprights are deep red/brown and the new oak as you would expect still very pale but darkening even after 2 years. Great pleasure to see these warm colours come alive from the dust and years of use.<br />
I have used this mixture on floors (chestnut), the stairs (turkey oak) and garden furniture.<br />
The beans and tomatoes planted in late May are going crazy now, enough for some everyday.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14138459497527003728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1680108899639432310.post-15939430290517253042010-07-14T22:03:00.002+01:002010-07-14T22:09:26.893+01:00Little bits of self-sufficiencyThis year we have eaten all our own rhubarb, but due to dry weather it has gone to seed (first time in 7 years). Don't buy shallots or onions, grow my own from sets, the shallots keep for up to 2 years, just gathered them in before the welcome rain of the last two days. Must get onions up and in soon. Ground still very hard, big cracks in clayey soil on allotment. Wonderful red and black currants this year. The bushes are not expensive to buy as small plants, don't need a lot of work, weeding, feeding, mulching, pruning maybe twice a year, netting to save the fruit from pigeons. Just put away many pots of redcurrant jelly and blackcurrant jam, make good presents. French friends sometimes a bit bemused by my concotions such as rhubarb and ginger jam, green tomato chutney, chinese plum sauce... Trying to grow angelica again.<br />
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Potatoes this year a disaster, very dry weather and some late frost. Beans looking good and enough for some nearly every day, will get boring soon. Years ago used to slice with a little machine and then salt them in big earthenware jars. Remember having a complete cupboard filled with Kilner jars with mainly fruit in. No freezers in the 1950s only a small fridge. luxury (you were lucky... young people nowadays...). Bendix washing machine my dad bought to cope with the nappies after I arrived in 1945 cost over £100, a small fortune, you could survive on £200 a year, lasted 30 years. I digress. We used to have fruit picking parties with all ages involved, a huge picnic lunch. I remember lots of people sitting round the kitchen table preparing fruit for bottling or making into jam. A joint endeavor, laughter, singing, drinking, playing "sardines" in the garden, a lot of cigarette smoking (both parents smoked 50 a day).<br />
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What is the point of all this you might well ask? It feels good to produce some of your own food, to be able to give it away, to cook and eat it, to share it. I get great joy from watching my grandchildren pick fruit as I did when small, to look for beans to pick, where they gathered the bean seeds, dried, sorted and planted them. I'm trying to reconnect them to the soil, the earth on which we all depend for our survival. To feel a part of nature not apart from it. To develop a sense of place, belonging, heimat, at-homeness. To come to know the seasons, the weather, the need for rain and frost, as well as sun and warmth. ho humAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14138459497527003728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1680108899639432310.post-68410050980816386932010-07-09T16:08:00.001+01:002010-07-09T16:11:19.356+01:00Chief Seattle's TestimonyI came across Neil Spencer's "looped cursive" handwriting book from my class of 9 year olds in 1976. His handwriting had improved wonderfully during the year in my class and he was proud for me to keep it as an example of what can be achieved. What has this to do with sustainability you might well ask. Well, after using Spike Milligan poems and children's regional skipping games (Iona & Peter Opie + children's own knowledge) for the texts for our daily 4 lines or so of handwriting, I came across Chief Seattle's Testimony. So we used that and spent time discussing what had happened in 1854, what his message to the white man was and what it might mean for us in Colne, Lancashire today. The children were genuinely inspired by his words (even if he didn't say exactly that, even if they were changed at a later date, even if they were invention. See "<a href="http://esd.escalate.ac.uk/1412">A native american eco-gospel or Southern Baptist creation?</a>") It made them think about their environment and how it was being spoiled. It helped them to realise the importance of noticing nature across the seasons, during our monthly walk around the same patch of cemetry, riverbank, woodland and abandoned land behind the old Lancashire cotton mills, long silent. That summer term we organised cleaning the river/stream with the help of the local district council who provided, gloves and plastic sacks and a skip. It was a success but deemed too risky to repeat. "Why were they not in school? Wasn't it too dangerous? What were they learning from the experience? "Shouldn't the council clean up the river/stream?... How proud they were of what they had achieved. I told them earlier in the year that if they started and finished each lesson on time saving at least 5 mins. for each lesson, more than 20 mins. a day, and nearly 2 hours a week, they would earn 3 whole days during the summer term to do some worthwhile project that they could choose. Another year and another class, we conducted a local tree survey over a period of a few weeks.<br />
The good news, some of the trees especially the ones with TPOs (tree preservation order) are still there, the little saplings in danger of being vandalised, now majestically line the road. The children knew they had made a small difference. The bad news, 3 years after the river clean up a local company up stream suffered a fractured pipe on a suphuric acid storage tank. The children now at the local secondary school came to me one day after school in tears to tell me about the dead fish. It mattered to them, it was their river now. The company was fined, and eventually life returned to the little river. I have happy memories watching them play by the side of a sand bank, swimming and splashing after the clean up knowing all the broken glass, old bikes and steel drums ... had been removed. I wonder what their children's experiences have been?. Neil will be 43.<br />
How can we develop a sense of place in today's children?Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14138459497527003728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1680108899639432310.post-23047893934983411872010-05-26T21:32:00.001+01:002010-05-26T21:36:12.918+01:00Might Twitter give rise to Tweets as the new Haiku?Direct experience before words and language?<br />
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Cool morning air touches my nostrils. Am I breathing in<br />
or is Gaia breathing out? Ah!<br />
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2 crickets signal the end of St Glace, the warmth returns.<br />
In go the tomato plants.<br />
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Watching hairs on my old paintbrush.<br />
How many strokes, cutting in, playing a role to make the edge?<br />
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This mouthful, honey's silky sweetness, nectar gathered from many flowers,<br />
incessant work for my one lick.<br />
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Nothing to lose but my insanity.<br />
Memories of playing a kazoo on the train. Just be. Now.<br />
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The candle is burning down. My gap year is coming to an end.<br />
I need to use my time wisely.<br />
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Transient birdsong, blackbird, cuckoo, dog barking, traffic, my breath,<br />
bell chimes 9.<br />
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When spitting, spit, with a balance of tension and relaxation,<br />
with intention, deliberately, mindfully.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14138459497527003728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1680108899639432310.post-87124117205894607012010-05-04T21:10:00.000+01:002010-05-04T21:10:51.814+01:00Small actions; little thingsWhat litte things can we do to live a bit more simply?<br />
"Live simply, that others may simply live." A 1970s sound-bite..<br />
I picked some fresh mint to make tea and thought about the zero food miles, packaging.....<br />
For years I've been planting cuttings from herbs, growing them on a bit and then giving them away or selling them at school fairs etc. I've planted out a few sprigs of rosemary and lavender descended from parent plants from 1986 in Cornwall, now growing in France and heaven knows where else.<br />
I filled a raised bed, made from salvaged timber, with compost which must be at least 5yrs old. I'll plant beans in one and tomatoes in the other. All the old garden rubbish had completely broken down. The ash tree benefitted from all that rubbish we piled next to it in 1994, such as layers of ancient chicken muck we initailly mistook for lime rendering it was so hard. I use a shredder now to reduce all the hedge and orchard prunings to small pieces. I store them for a year or two before using them as mulch. <br />
The weather has been getting colder 20, 19, 18 ....15 degrees C. So put on another sweater. Once I get working I soon warm up. It is interesting how quickly the body gets used to a dwelling at around 15 degrees C. No central heating here to turn down in these C18th cottages, but thick mud and river stone walls hold the heat. I knew it was colder inside because the butter was hard.<br />
Snowed today so had to cut up some old wood and light the woodburner. Old hand riven oak roofing lattes, salvaged when the barn was re-roofed 10 years ago, must be well over 100 years old nearer 200.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14138459497527003728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1680108899639432310.post-3692301319229433042010-03-25T18:31:00.000+00:002010-03-25T18:31:56.430+00:00Spring is on its wayThe cold weather has broken down the soil into a fine tilth; just hoed with a push-pull hoe, cuts the weeds well. Burning rubbish, hope to make some charcoal to incorporate into the soil, great benefits and easy to do. Get the fire going, put on the wood or organic matter, waste, cuttings... cover up with weeds or soil to excluded air. Next day open up the reduced pile. There should be charcoal (<a href="http://www.howtogardenadvice.com/soil_prep/make_biochar.html">bio-char</a>) amongst the ashes. Rake shovel out and work into the soil. Planted shallots, easy to grow, keep well and a high value crop. Half my onion sets in now rest in later. Very early potatoes in now.<br />
Met my friends John & Sarah Snyder, from the Sahara Project 1986 - 1992, after 18 years. John has just digitised the 35000 images he took in Mali and converted them into a film. A copy of the 43G file now sits on a tiny 250G external hard drive that easily fits in my pocket. Oh how the technology has changed since laser vision disc of the late 1980s. John is still working with <a href="http://tartarus.org/%7Emartin/PorterStemmer/">Dr Mark Porter</a> of "Muscat" fame (an early probablisitic search engine). Their current project is<a href="http://www.grapeshot.co.uk/"> "Grapeshot"</a>.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14138459497527003728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1680108899639432310.post-68854844251806964642009-12-16T10:51:00.000+00:002009-12-16T10:51:25.984+00:00My Head in a Tag CloudStrange the way things come together. Have made contact with old friends over the past few weeks and new contacts have offered new links and ideas. Brenda is working in France on local green issues and suggested I opened up the comments. So I have. Caleb Gattegno's <a href="http://www.educationalsolutions.com/">Educational Solutions</a> has changed hands and now most of his extensive writing is available to read on-line. Re-inventing Education is increasingly important. Gattegno suggested that we "sub-ordinate teaching to learning".<br />
After many years interest in the use of charcoal to improve soils both in my own garden/allotment and when in Zambia in early 70s, <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/sep/08/response-biochar-environment-climate-change">BioChar</a> is now big news. Can you imagine the internal surface area of a lump of charcoal no bigger than a sugar lump being 100m2!! Imagine you are a micro-organism. What a great place to live. <a href="http://www.philipcoppens.com/terrapreta.html">terra preta</a><br />
<a href="http://rolfjucker.net/">Rolf Jucker</a> gave an interesting seminar at IRIS in Cheltenham on 4th Dec. "<a href="http://www.glos.ac.uk/vision/sustainability/news/Documents/jucker.pdf">Systemic Change in the Age of Stupid</a>" Swiss goings on in ESD. He is Director of Swiss Foundation for Environmental Education.<br />
I'm still struggling with what to use as tags. Too many tags makes the tag cloud I'm using weaker, too few restricts the concepts/ideas in the cloud. Restricted vocabulary or free? What happens in ESD Electronic Service Delivery that is when the words you think are really important for survival, such as resilience, soil improvement, rich soil, power down, energy descent, energy decline, limits to growth, are not included?<br />
Wonderful, wonderful COP15. Will it be??<br />
Have a look at <a href="http://www.tenbyten.org/10x10.html">10x10</a>, <a href="http://www.ecoloqo.net/">Ecoloqo</a> & of course <a href="http://esd.escalate.ac.uk/favorites">my Diigo tag cloud</a>.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14138459497527003728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1680108899639432310.post-49479472166419187222009-11-17T19:38:00.000+00:002009-11-17T19:54:51.632+00:00Autumn 2009Well I'm back from France. The main structural work on the eco-barn is completed. I hope to finish it next summer. The allotment looks a bit neglected but good crops of potatoes, shallots, onions, black & red currants and beans before we left end of July. Green manure has worked well and covering fallow soil with garden rubbish &/or cardboard just fine.<br />Major recent influences include: Great new book on <a href="http://esd.escalate.ac.uk/2135">Sustainability Literacy</a>; continued interest globally in the <a href="http://www.biochar.org/">potentail for bio-char to sequester Carbon</a> and improve soils water and nutrient holding capacity and hence productivity.<br /><a href="http://www.eckharttolle.com/">Eckhart Tolle</a> and excellent articles in Resurgence magazine 256 on <a href="http://esd.escalate.ac.uk/consciousness">Consciousness</a>.<br />I'm still stuggling with Tag list (controlled vocabulary), but warming to a solution.<br /><a href="http://esd.escalate.ac.uk/favorites">Tag cloud for ESDGC</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14138459497527003728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1680108899639432310.post-71937113711600220282009-02-13T21:26:00.000+00:002009-02-13T21:32:20.374+00:00Mirandanet has just had a most fullsome discussion about the merits of teaching touch-typing to children.<br />I've managed to get a "Tag Cloud" on the <a href="http://esd.escalate.ac.uk/">http://esd.escalate.ac.uk</a> site. I imported it from my Diigo site, where they are called "Tag Rolls".<br />I've set up a Group on Diigo for "Sustainable Education". Anyone can join.<br /><a href="http://groups.diigo.com/groups/sustainable-education">http://groups.diigo.com/groups/sustainable-education</a><br />You are welcome. I've written a little about a possible protocol for tags.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14138459497527003728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1680108899639432310.post-69303313755422423192009-02-06T10:41:00.000+00:002009-02-06T10:43:18.828+00:00Diigo made me think about ideas from 1989. 'ere 'tis<br /><br /><br />PEBBLES (First appeared in “Education 2010” Newman Software 1989)<br /><br />Information, data, and collections have always accompanied civilisations, but the form, content, context and quantity has developed and expanded. There is already a vast amount of data available to us from a variety of sources. The great library at Alexandria was one such example from long ago. Current libraries in wealthy countries have moved swiftly to microfilm, microfiche, and latterly to computerised databases, often accessed by phone. The fact is that our collections of books, articles, newspapers are now so huge that we can no longer afford to actually keep and handle them first hand for a variety of reasons; space, cost of purchase, cost of storing, cost of cataloguing, cost of maintenance ..... Even our collections of artefacts such as those found in the British Museum are so extensive that they cannot be shown regularly. In fact some exhibits aren't, they never see the light of day. Figures for the rate of growth of the number of articles published in scientific journals each year are quite staggering. Knowledge, facts, and printed material are threatening to engulf us. I dread to think what it might be like by 2010.<br />There is a great need to personalise large databases.<br />If you think for a moment about your books, your library or indeed any collection you may own or have access to, and consider how you know your way around it, there is inevitably a personal side to that knowledge. You may use a catalogue and a number system, but also it is highly likely that your own personal experiences before, during and after your various uses of the collection, have coloured your view, mental map and ultimately the way you feel and think about the collection. Most of us know our books by colour, shape, where they go on the shelf, and inside, we pave, mark, underline, make notes, put in paper slips or fold over corners.<br />Pebbles is an attempt to describe a way of personalising vast amounts of data.<br />On the Apple Mac in Hypercard, the system assuming the human user to be somewhat simple and easily confused, keeps a record of the last 20 screens visited by the idiot human.<br />Some years ago Bob Kowalski, talking about developments in Prolog, proposed the very simple but incredibly useful idea of SYMMETRY. He explained that if the Prolog system couldn't answer a query from the user, then the system could ask for more information by querying the user. This whole notion of symmetry between the system and the user seems so obvious, but when we either feel in control of the system or know that it controls us, we don't think of symmetry, only our role and that of the system. Hansel and Gretel stole bread and crumbled it so they could find their way home again, but the trail had a finite length, like the Mac's breadcrumb trail. Moreover, Hansel and Gretel were in control of the distribution of the bread at least, but it was when they used pebbles that they found their way home. I term the objects with which I am going to suggest we personalise databases, PEBBLES. Pebbles are hard and durable, they have been used for thousands of years for counting and playing games, and painted pebbles have been found in prehistoric sites. Pebbles can be re-used, unlike breadcrumbs, which were eaten by the birds, as Hansel and Gretel found to their cost.<br />Pebbles can come in different shapes, sizes, patterns, colours, surfaces, and densities. In computing terms, they can be described as objects. I propose that these objects can be given various properties, ultimately as part of an object oriented programming environment. But I rush on too far, too fast. The user is in control of the pebbles, not the system with its breadcrumbs.<br />Some ways of using Pebbles.<br />The user browsing a vast database with a handful of pebbles can choose to drop a pebble at any point. Any page of interest, any piece of interesting data can be marked using a pebble. Pebbles can be dropped in any order.<br />At the end of a session, the references marked by the pebbles can be requested, and a second selection made. Pebbles can be taken back if the reference is not deemed worth keeping. References can be reordered and saved as a set of references.<br />The important concept is that pebbles can have as many or as few properties as required.<br />In reality pebbles are simply property lists stored on a disc linked to the user or other property lists. Hard copy of the material can be obtained .depending on the system being used; pebbles merely keeps track of where you went and which pages or references etc you wished to mark.<br />Students could use prepared routes marked out by pebbles. This doesn't preclude them from browsing the system. Students could use their own pebbles like a signet ring to mark pages in which they were interested. The database would appear to show which pages in a text or set of newspaper articles were deemed important by the students. Of course, the teacher could lay down a paper trail, or just leave a few clues lying around.<br />Pebbles can be collected in with their references, sifted, sorted and ordered into a linear sequence. The pebbles, when drilled, can be strung together, making a bead necklace.<br />Branching strings of beads can be produced, as can networks. They can be built up over a period of time without actually touching or changing the original data as it exists on a CD ROM or whatever. Networks can be hierarchical, in that large pebbles denote important routes, whilst small! ones denote minor routes. The metaphor could be changed to roads, and travel in general. Remember tracking and scouting; consider the marks made by rich and poor sedentary and mobile peoples. Pebbles is a system, not unlike buttons in Hypercard. Pebbles can build up simple or complex networks, fractals if you prefer, of information based on how we as individuals think and come to that information. Pebbles is a metaphor, which hopefully will allow us to personalise vast amounts of information, making them our own. At its simplest, pebbles should save us from getting lost in the myriad knowledge which threatens to engulf us.<br /><br />Henry Liebling in thoughtful mood. May 1989 .(ISBN 0948048042)<br />My friend Paul Spurgeon & I worked on these ideas through the 1990s.<br />Now I think Diigo have realised most of this. Feb 6th 2009Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14138459497527003728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1680108899639432310.post-61201019082418326642009-02-05T13:51:00.001+00:002009-02-05T13:56:32.613+00:00I've just set up a Sustainable Education Group on Diigo to share and maybe annotate websites, webpages, documents...<br />I'm sure we can use Diigo to make more sense of and manage the huge amount of information there is out there.<br /><a href="http://groups.diigo.com/groups/sustainable-education">http://groups.diigo.com/groups/sustainable-education</a><br /><br />Send me an e-mail if you want to join us<br /><br /><a href="mailto:hliebling@gmail.com">hliebling@gmail.com</a><br /><br />best wishes<br />HenryAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14138459497527003728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1680108899639432310.post-31190945251162469892008-06-30T16:26:00.000+01:002008-06-30T16:33:11.019+01:0018000 hits from all over the worldI have been amazed by how many visitors we have had. Also no feedback via e-mails. So might make a link to this blog.<br />So many contrasting views in the media on topics such as bio-fuels.<br />Need to feel joyful, hopeful rather than desparate about the world.<br />How far along the raod to a view such as "in Gaia we are just another species"?<br />If humans are so interconnected to all life on the planet, then surely all life is special not just humans. If this is so then what of religious views which clearly in many cases (not all) place humans above and stewards of all life. We are not doing a very good job are we?<br />I'm going to play with my grand children. Then pick some food from my allottment!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14138459497527003728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1680108899639432310.post-67762216628172381192008-06-09T22:50:00.000+01:002008-06-09T22:56:06.804+01:00New E4S WebsiteA new website has been launched for<br />Education for Sustainability and Global Citizenship.<br />It is at<br /><a href="http://esd.escalate.ac.uk/">http://esd.escalate.ac.uk</a><br />Have a look<br />Let me know what you think<br />Give me your website address and maybe we can swap links<br /><br />I want a future for my grandchildren.<br />Yours hopefully<br />Henry Liebling<br /> "The Pampa"Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14138459497527003728noreply@blogger.com0