30 May 2012
Emily Charkin explores the Pioneer Health Centre’s ‘free school’, which was open between 1947 and 1950, and examines how the school was an expression of the Centre’s aim of empowering communities and a core belief in the innate capacity of children ...
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30 May 2012
In this essay Molly Conisbee explores the ideological assumptions of continual growth that drive so much of our political and economic policy, and argues that the obesity epidemic we have seen in recent years serves as a symptom of what is wrong wit...
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30 May 2012
The University of Greenwich, which has been awarded the Soil Association's bronze Food for Life Catering Mark across all of its catering services, has become the newest name at the top of The People and Planet Green League. Awarded 55 out of a possi...
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30 May 2012
Rob Richmond looks at current organic farming practice and argues that it needs to concentrate on biology rather than chemistry (in the form of soil nitrogen availability) if we are to ensure that organic farming really can be a true alternative to ...
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30 May 2012
In this article Charles Dowding examines Albert Howard's 1940 book An Agricultural Testament, which was the first articulation in print of the urgent need for a healthy soil.
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30 May 2012
This Soil Association report explores whether just increasing production is the answer to the problem of 'feeding the world'; as we already produce more than enough food to feed the world comfortably, yet one billion people go hungry. Or do we need ...
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21 May 2012
Points for Irish sourcing in Northern Ireland The Catering Mark Standards Committee would like your views on a proposal for Irish sourcing to be included as qualifying for 2 points per % for sourcing locally in Ireland.
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18 May 2012
Can you design a slogan or logo to be printed on our newest T-shirts?
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18 May 2012
Coleshill Organics are actively seeking volunteers with a commitment to growing organically and a desire to learn as much as possible about the process.
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17 May 2012
Europe’s biggest celebration of all things organic will be taking place throughout September, brought to you by the Soil Association – the UK’s leading membership charity campaigning for healthy, humane and sustainable food, farming and land use. Wa...
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