Gardening is a hobby of mine. Current agricultural practices maximize profits largely by minimizing labor inputs. Should the economics of it all change...
I am not so sure that converting to locally produced, probably expensive, vegetarian diets would be universally popular with city dwellers and their ...
The elegance of "tax reform for optimum pricing" is the resulting structural economic incentive for the desired human and business behaviours. When all...
Thank you Sean, I'll put this forward once I've read up on it a bit. And also thanks to all who responded to my earlier request for an LVT introduction. ...
... I think that, in the absense of distortions, most people would choose to live in urbanized areas. I think that wired public transit is the only way to...
... Country dwellers use the same supermarket chains. ... Far too much land is given over to agriculture, which only accounts for about 2.5% of the UK economy....
... almost ... fed ... dairy, ... ...........or provide a more hospitable habitat for those 60 million people that currently live there and those additional...
... Sean, Another point is plant more forests. It has been estimated that the UK requires 450,000 homes per year in the next 20 years or so to keep up with...
My thoughts on energy are that most of our current use can be reduced without reducing standards of living. Current production and land use patterns require...
Sean, On the other hand, hydroponics in closed greenhouses can produce enormously. An Arizonan hydroponics farm reported an annual yield of 240,000 lbs of...
On 31 Oct 2005 at 20:33, under the subject heading "Laying the myth to ... Mason Gaffney wrote an excellent paper demonstrating that, although corporate farms...
Several people have asked for the source of this quote: _____ <http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/O/OrwellGeorge/essay/tribun e/index.html> As I...
Pleased to hear from you Luis. Remember: Houses do not go up in value! The bricks, mortar, roof tiles, wooden floor boards, windows frames, plaster etc. etc....
John, I believe that Britain gets perhaps 5-6 times as much from Tourism as from agriculture. Instead of giving £300,000 a year to the Duke of Westminster...
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Terence Bendixson
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Nov 5, 2005 6:02 pm
What interpretation do we put on the strong tendency amongst those who can afford it to buy houses, or second houses, in the country? Are they seeking to copy...
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Martin Large
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Nov 5, 2005 6:02 pm
Dear Friends, Fordhall Farm, Market Drayton, Shropshire will be sold to developers if a new community land trust, Fordhall Community Land Initiative is unable...
Dear friends, Harry Jr. finally succumbed to his cancer a few days ago. There will be a graveside service Saturday at 1pm at Glenhaven Memorial Park in Sylmar....
... In temperate climates, a cornfield absorbs 42 times as much CO2 per year as an old-growth forest. There are other reasons why I do not recommend this, but...
... Without land value tax, a country home is not so much an expense as an asset that will grow in value. Staying there from time to time is merely a side...
Dear Landed Gentry, Your sweating barman would like to extend to any of you who may happen to be within shouting distance a personal invitation to attend the ...
... On the 5th Dan Sullivan added: In temperate climates, a cornfield absorbs 42 times as much CO2 per year as an old-growth forest. There are other reasons...
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Joshua Vincent
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Nov 5, 2005 8:51 pm
Interesting aside: in Minnesota, the LVT we are trying for is a rework of a current state-wide property tax on commercial property and second (holiday) homes...
Ed Dodson responding... Terence Bendixson wrote: What interpretation do we put on the strong tendency amongst those who can afford it to buy houses, or second...
LVT News Digest - 6 November 2005 BACKERS use tenure policy as scapegoat Los Angeles Daily News - Los Angeles,CA,USA ... In 1887, renowned San Francisco...
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Terence Bendixson
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Nov 7, 2005 8:13 am
Dave Thanks for that. Good stuff. ‘Private’ garden squares are, of course, shared spaces and therefore in some ways urban equivalents (for leisure and...
To all: http://dieoff.org/page185.htm -see excerpt below. I pass this on in the vein of the triumph of so-called "neoclassical" economics over Georgists and...
I have known for some time that the number of "taxpayers" in this country is very small, because only those of us who are emloyers, or self-employued, are...
