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  • From: Lawrence London <lfljvenaura@gmail.com>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [permaculture] How monoculture farming changes biodiversity - Boing Boing
  • Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2012 00:06:31 -0500

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How monoculture farming changes
biodiversity<http://boingboing.net/2012/11/30/how-monoculture-farming-change.html>

Maggie Koerth-Baker <http://boingboing.net/author/maggie_koerth-baker> at
10:27 am •
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This image, taken by artist David Liittschwager shows the plants and
animals collected in a square meter of South African public park over the
course of 24 hours.

http://boingboing.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/liittschwager_fynbos_collage_12x24_book_custom-4e6bb9c890da29a41c93877b5398ecab864e2f23-s4-600x299.jpeg

This image, from National Public Radio, illustrates the plants and animals
found over the course of two nights and three days in an Iowa cornfield.

http://boingboing.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/cornfield2_custom-257b08316ec88d649e61c377fd539fdd162c095c-s4-600x428.jpeg

Robert Krulwich has a fascinating piece about the ways food systems affect
ecological
systems<http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2012/11/29/166156242/cornstalks-everywhere-but-nothing-else-not-even-a-bee>.
How efficient is too efficient?

http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2012/11/29/166156242/cornstalks-everywhere-but-nothing-else-not-even-a-bee
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Via On
Earth<http://www.onearth.org/blog/the-grand-canyon-is-old-antarctica-is-melting-immortal-jellyfish-dont-live-forever>
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  • [permaculture] How monoculture farming changes biodiversity - Boing Boing, Lawrence London, 12/01/2012

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