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What does designing for life mean in practice? Who is doing it? How we can help? I write, talk, and advise. We also host offsite/retreats here in France .

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Documenting traditional Blang sustainable food practices in the tea forest ecosystem of Jingmai Mountain https://planetforward.org/story/blang-sustainable-food/

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HT Zeyuan Wang

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Drawing on data from over 400 forest plantations in Himachal Pradesh, India, we show that improved forest outcomes forest cover, forest-based livelihoods) are strongly associated with long-term participation by local people in decision-making
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/adf1b8/pdf

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In Ireland, "farmers brought themselves and produce from their farms. It centred us. Seeds and soil, eggs and cabbages, and all manner of apples, have a way of doing that" https://sustainable.ie/cabbages-co-ops-and-decolonisation-feeding-ourselves-hits-the-city/ HT @cultivate_ie

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Can anyone feasibly explain India's complex water situation - and what, practically to do about it - in 5 minutes? Avinash Krishnamurthy from Biome Environmental Trust did just this as an India Fast Pitch 2025 Finalist https://youtu.be/Gl5uT4wrtOA?si=C4znh9h0IyT_mwwY

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and (I just discovered) they won! The 24k euros is well-deserved

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