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India’s Mark II Pump

August 30th, 2010 []

The Mark 2 hand pump must rank – along with the ubiquitous Autorickshaw- as one of the great pieces of design to have originated in India.

Inside pointReturn

July 27th, 2010 []

A long over-due update on activities at pointReturn

A primer on swales

December 30th, 2009 []

An article on swales has just been published elsewhere on this Read

Some months ago, I Twittered “july, 09 is hottest in 40 years. rainfall is 10% of the average; just 20mm. pointReturn is reeling under the drought”. That was about the SW monsoon. Now the NE monsoon appears to be poor as Read

In 1990, when its long standing supporter, the Soviet Union collapsed, Cuba, already decades under US embargo was facing an insurmountable wall. Without petroleum and fertilisers food shortages loomed everywhere.

But Cuba made a virtue of its predicament and went organic. People driven farms sprang up everywhere and ecologically sound practices were revived. By 1995 the organic farming movement had taken hold and food shortages receded. Today Cuba is Latin America's leader in food production indicators.

Click below to read Peter Rosset's comprehensive report on Cuba's true Green Revolution
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