Tag: economics
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Episode #146: The Open Source Economy
Frank is joined by Marcin Jakubowski, visionary behind the Open Source Ecology Project. With just a $100 million share of the global economy, open source hardware and manufacturing has quite…
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Just Wait for the Collapse
Seems like there’s a new affliction amongst some segment of permaculturalists these days, maybe we could term it collapsicosis or collapsitis. This peculiar and apparently growing meme goes something like…
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Understanding Economies of Scale
This week’s podcast epsiode, the Failure of Permaculture, has created a lot of debate and some controversy. A first point is expressed in the below quote from @ajtarnas. “The podcast…
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The Permaculture Fail
Update: This comment thread on reddit for the podcast episode is red hot right now. This is an excerpt from this week’s podcast where I argue that permaculture is failing.…
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Episode #145: The Failure of Permaculture
Update 2: This thread is still hot several months later, but a more recent episode of the Agroinnovations Podcast summarizes the conversation that has happened since this was published. Episode…
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Episode #144: $90,000 an Acre
This episodes features a listener submitted interview with Dr. Joe Kovach of Ohio State University. Dr. Kovach describes a small-scale mixed fruit-vegetable polyculture designed to produce steady, high-yields with a…
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Episode #143: The Crisis of Sustainable Agriculture
Frank welcomes Chris Stelzer of the Agricultural Insights Podcast. Chris outlines the purpose of and previous guests on his podcast. The conversation then launches into a discussion of the business…
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Food Price Inflation and Demand Elasticity in the Developing World
A twitter conversation with @ajtarnas has sparked me to write this post. The conversation started with this tweet, quoting and linking to an article by AFP: Internationally traded food prices…
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Drought in America: US Cattle Herd at Lowest since 1951
I’ve seen numerous headlines over the past few weeks warning that the U.S. cattleherd is at historic lows. Most blame drought for the decline, but looking behind the numbers a…
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Episode #135: Farm to Cafeteria
Frank is joined by Mary Stein, co-organizer of the biannual Farm to Cafeteria Conference, which will take place on April 15-18 in Austin, Texas. Topics of conversation include the shift…
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