Uses oil or acrylic paint on canvas but likes to experiment using fabric and other materials to add a third dimension to the people of southeast Malawi.
July 2007's Issue
Amidst all the fashionable frenzy about global warming and the end of the world as we know it, we take a calm look at one of the more positive options for a durable, sustainable future. No, not a deep-green gardening cult, the lifestle of Siberia or an extreme haircut; permaculture proposes that we make our peace with naure, abandon misplaced faith in the technological fix and connect through ‘intelligent design’ to a freshly Edible Earth. NI co-editor David Ransom avoids the airmiles and becomes and innocent at home in Britain. He steps onto unfamiliar territory in his own backyard and explores what some remarkable people are doing to reshape the ugly patterns of unjust, unsustainable consumption.
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Featured in issue 402
Much ado about oil
Hugo Chávez’s new foreign policy makes sense, according to Alex Sánchez Nieto
- Alex Sánchez Nieto
- 1 Jul 2007
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Permanent culture
Had David Ransom known, he might well have taken the same path much sooner.
- David Ransom
- 1 Jul 2007
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Mugabe: saint, sinner or same?
Why does the West think that Mugabe has changed?
- Mthulisi Mathuthu
- 1 Jul 2007
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Global common sense
A brief tour around the permacultural world – North America, Nepal, Cuba, India, Palestine, Zimbabwe.
- David Ransom
- 1 Jul 2007
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10 DIY Permaculture Ideas
From living roofs and forest gardens to animal tractors and chicken greenhouses.
- Maddy Harlan
- 1 Jul 2007
- 1
Barns to beacons
A co-operative of ‘peasants’ in rural Dorset and a remarkable woman in the Brecon Beacons set some inspiring examples.
- David Ransom
- 1 Jul 2007
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No-dig for victory
A fresh forest of networks is blooming in the inner cities of Bristol and London, where David Ransom tries to keep pace with Peak Oil as well.
- David Ransom
- 1 Jul 2007
- 1
HOTDOCS Special
A special report from Toronto’s HOTDOCS film festival, featuring movies on Darfur, Abu Ghraib and climate change.
- Richard Swift
- 1 Jul 2007
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The ISI
Pakistan’s Intelligence Agency, the ISI, finds out what it is like to be in the firing line.
- New Internationalist Editorial
- 1 Jul 2007
- 1
Canadians’ ‘seamier’ side
The land of wheat and maple syrup
- New Internationalist Editorial
- 1 Jul 2007
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Girl power?
What is really happening to girls in a post-feminist world
- Nikki van der Gaag
- 1 Jul 2007
- 1
(RED)TM herring
Corporate watchdog sees red at Bono’s branded goodies.
- New Internationalist Editorial
- 1 Jul 2007
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Tasmanian roots
The two Australians, Bill Mollison and David Holmgren, set the ball rolling – Russ Grayson and Steve Payne tell their story.
- Russ Grayson and Steve Payne
- 1 Jul 2007
- 1
Bank off!
Latin American countries are giving the World Bank and the IMF the boot.
- Nadia Martinez
- 1 Jul 2007
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The problem is the solution
How the prospect of penury forced David Ransom to discover that there’s more than money to be saved both at work and at his new home on a Dutch barge.
- David Ransom
- 1 Jul 2007
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The Islamophobia debate
When is it fair to criticize Islam and when is it not?
- Amatullah Matthews, Peter Tatchell, Sharif Gemie and Patricia Clark
- 1 Jul 2007
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The ethical heart of permaculture
Maddy Harland outlines the principles that make it beat.
- Maddy Harlan
- 1 Jul 2007
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Edible Earth
In search of bright ideas, David Ransom begins by learning some very basic lessons about how to design a more sustainable, permanent culture.
- David Ransom
- 1 Jul 2007
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Burundi
A small landlocked state in central Africa, sandwiched between its vast neighbours Tanzania and Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi has suffered as much from ethnic conflict as its other (equally tiny) neighbour, Rwanda. Yet while the 1993 Rwandan genocide continues to commandeer international attention, Burundi’s travails tend to slip under the radar.
- Wairagala Wakabi
- 1 Jul 2007
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