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The Ambiguous Ecologies of Agri‐Alternatives: Exploring the Calculus of Social Reproduction in Rural India

open access: yesJournal of Agrarian Change, Volume 26, Issue 2, April 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper advances scholarship on agri‐alternatives by probing the gap between romanticised narratives of how alternative farming transitions ought to be and the actual practices farmers enact in their fields. Focusing on moments when such alternatives encounter on‐the‐ground realities, we propose ambiguous ecologies as a lens to explore the ...
Arianna Tozzi, Enid Still
wiley   +1 more source

Partnerships in Sustainability: The Transition Town Movement in Minnesota

open access: yesInterdisciplinary Journal of Partnership Studies, 2017
Transition Towns is a citizen-led movement that seeks to address individual and societal dependence on fossil fuels and the need to reduce greenhouse gas production in order to fight climate change.
Leslie MacKenzie, Marty Lewis-Hunstiger
doaj   +1 more source

Insights into glandular trichome biology from analysis of organ‐specific gene expression programmes in cannabis, hop and tomato

open access: yesThe Plant Journal, Volume 125, Issue 6, March 2026.
Significance Statement This study of three glandular trichome‐producing species (cannabis, hop and tomato) defines tissue‐specific transcriptomic atlases for five organs (trichome, flower, leaf, stem and root), providing co‐expression and gene regulatory networks and identifying candidate regulators of specialised metabolism in trichomes of each ...
Muluneh Tamiru‐Oli   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Populating and Staying with Methodological Surprise

open access: yesInternational Journal of Art &Design Education, Volume 45, Issue 1, Page 30-38, February 2026.
Abstract This submission shares methodological experiments, cultivated in practices of composting by staying open to a surprise in art and design education research. Openness towards a surprise reduces a need to control a defining momentum of inquiry and instead welcomes composted and layered unknowns through multisensory learning experiences.
Mira Kallio‐Tavin, Mirka Koro
wiley   +1 more source

Natural Guardians of the Balkans: Entheogens in Indigenous Practices and Their Implications for Well-Being and Therapy

open access: yesPsychoactives
Psychedelic plants and fungi have been traditionally used in many cultures as part of ritual ceremonies and ancient medicinal treatments. In some regions, these psychoactive plants have already entered mainstream discourse through popular literature and ...
Lucija Vejmelka, Damir Gašpar
doaj   +1 more source

The Permaculture Approach

open access: yes
Abstract Permaculture can be considered synonymous with regeneration. In a world where so much damage has been done to the ecosystem that conservation and preservation are not enough, regeneration and restoration need to take the central stage.
openaire   +2 more sources

Sustainable Pedagogical Space: Water Risk Reduction Management Through Permaculture Pedagogy

open access: yesCSID Journal of Infrastructure Development
This study explores a Permaculture design approach to promote water conservation and reduce water dependency, particularly in response to plastic pollution.
Susi Andriani Simanjuntak   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Permaculture in Portugal: Social-Ecological Inventory of a Re-Ruralizing Grassroots Movement

open access: yesEuropean Countryside, 2020
Southern European countries face a panorama of rural landscape abandonment, ageing rural population and lack of opportunities for vibrant rural lifestyles.
Oliveira Hugo, Penha-Lopes Gil
doaj   +1 more source

Community of practice and green learning. The case of a Permaculture Art Cooperative

open access: yesCooperativismo y Desarrollo, 2020
This paper addresses the issue of communities of practice in an art and permaculture cooperative. The contributions of the situated theory of learning, the Social Economy and Permaculture, allowed to think of the cooperatives as spaces of social ...
Rocío Belén Martín   +2 more
doaj  

Grassroots engagement with transition to sustainability: diversity and modes of participation in the international permaculture movement

open access: yesEcology and Society, 2015
Grassroots networks and social movements are increasingly regarded as agents of change that can help respond to environmental degradation both by generating novel solutions to existing problems and influencing institutions toward more substantive ...
Rafter Sass. Ferguson, Sarah T. Lovell
doaj   +1 more source

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