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The author of theses texts is Dara Casey – itinerant street musician/ writer, and amateur farmer, builder, and herbalist.

Currently working on a book about the Zapatistas which I hope to have uploaded by next year.

Exploring Alternatives was made with the intention of spreading the ideas and actions of people who are working to create a better world.

The website costs about 10€ a month to keep running. If you think the project worthwhile, and would like to financially contribute, feel free 🙂

Dara Casey O Siochru
IBAN: DE57100110012622720387

paypal.me/exploringalternative

Or if you would like to contribute with feedback, this would also be greatly appreciated.
dacasey@tcd.ie

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Aztec Agriculture

Chinampas – the highly productive ‘floating islands’ of the Aztecs.

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Mayan Agriculture

History of the Milpa and a contemporary transformation from the Mayan farmer Armando Poot Chable

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New Relationship with Nature

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Part one of a longer work looking at the Eco community movement.
This text looks at the history of modern societies relationship with nature, and the alternative relationship that is being established by the Eco movement.

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Making Soap

Guide to making your own soap

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Technique

Agroforestry

A method of land management that incorporates trees, bushes, annual and perennial crops, and animals into a single agricultural system

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Sunseed Desert Technology

Centre of education on sustainability in the badlands of Almería, South Spain.

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Friedenshof

One of the ‘Communities of the Ark’, a network of communities based on the philosophy of Mohatma Gandhi.

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Spinning Wool

How to turn sheep’s wool into a ball of yarn.

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ZEGG

Community dedicated to the experimenting with new forms of social relations and the development of the community capacity to love.