Four years ago Australian Story featured a farmer and horse breeder called Peter Andrews who seemed to have a rare ability to transform degraded Australian landscapes into thriving oases.
He called it natural sequence farming and it was producing some spectacular results. But for nearly thirty years, Peter Andrews’ work was rejected by scientists, bureaucrats and politicians alike until the evidence became difficult to ignore. continue… »

Introduction
All the continents of the world have been suffering from floods and droughts, fires, lack of water and food, famine, regional conflicts and climatic changes. During the last years, these phenomena have been evoking grave concern in our civilization’s future. The damages caused by water all over the world exceed hundreds of billion EUR annually. According to the prognoses, these damages tend to rise. To this, the coming economic crisis has been added bringing also unemployment with it. Nevertheless, it also brings opportunity to transfer and shift loosen work power to solve the above mentioned problems – just like it was successfully done during the Great Depression in the 30-ties of the 20th century in the USA, in framework of the New Deal program. continue… »

Governments, international organizations and businesses struggle to achieve the MDGs for drinking water and sanitation. Join this vital, solution oriented discussion on how social entrepreneurs can contribute and collaborate in order to meet these goals. What are the most promising innovations? What is the role of non-state actors in global environmental governance and what questions of power and public/private authority do they raise? Finally, what are the ecological presuppositions of sustaining the water-related MDGs in an age of rapid climate change? continue… »