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Greg Watson on Buckminster Fuller, the World Grid and World Game

Frontiers of Commoning, with David Bollier

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New Alchemy and Rodel - The Biggest Impact

Before new alchemy, people were bold enough to say that you can grow enough food on the 10th of an acre of land to feed 13 people three vegetable portions a day without chemical fertilizers, pesticides, or herbicides. I mean, they were clear about what would have to be the substitutes for that. The architecture, the passive solar architect, okay, caught on our 12 acres and found what we call the Cape Cod Ark. Prince Edward Island built a similar structures. Even if you look at the concept of aquaponics that has become now a second nature, there was no name for it. We just said we're integrating hydroponics and agriculture into one system.

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