Author: abrishamsilk
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Community Self-Sufficiency: The Lismore Community Garden Guide
Community Self-Sufficiency Lismore Southern Cross University Community Garden Guide Download the Lismore Southern Cross University Community Garden Guide: https://selfabrisham.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/251122_lismore_community_garden_guide_final-3-1.pdf An Introduction to the Guide with Desert Pictures The Southern Cross University Garden Community Garden is an important social resource. The garden is a place for horticulture therapy and food production. As our climate becomes more extreme,…
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Supporting More Sustainable Agriculture, Crime Reduction and Better Mental Health with Community Gardens and Orchards
What’s the Issue ! Improving regional communities’ emotional and physical health is critical for healthier and more resilient food supply networks. When people feel safe and secure with good mental health in their towns food farming community networks can flourish. The importance becomes clear when we consider the food needs of a large global city like…
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Better Physical and Mental Health with Green and Public Space
A Green and Public Space at the Door to the Sahara Green spaces and public spaces are everywhere which makes them an important topic of research from small village to big city. I encountered a public green space in a small village during my August, 2025 Morocco trip. I was hitchking out of the Sahara…
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To Trust or Not to Trust : Lessons to Learn from Covid-19 and Misinformation
Lessons to Learn from Covid-19 and Misinformation Defending Against Misinformation With Facts and Emotions With the risk of engineered pandemics in the future we need to be aware. To address this there are many lessons to learn from misinformation and Covid-19. Since the correct information can keep us safe from disease and healthy. But it…
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Why I Call Myself Abrisham
چرا خودم را آبریشام می نامم A Prelude من در سفری به سوی دانش هستم. آیا دانش در محیطمان جای گرفته؟ چیزی ها در دنیامان می سوزد و از خودم می پرسم: آیا می توانم آن را به سمت تغییر هدایت کنم! به سوی دانشی برای مکان ها صلح تر. با صلح پشتیبان محیطی I’m…
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Chapter 1 – The Little Wood Duck – Leaving the Lake
In the depths of a big forest an old wood duck has his children and grand children huddle round him. He’s ready to tell them a story. Once upon a time there was a little wood duck who lived with his mother. They lived together on a big lake at foot of tall mountains. The…
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The Power of Public Spaces. A Reflection to Process Trauma.
A Question “Is it possible to live in this world, psychologically without becoming anything?” (Krishnaramuti, 1980) In 2016 I asked myself this question. At the time I was in Sweden studying a course in software engineering and management. By 2018 I was preparing to leave Istanbul and meet an old friend in Tehran. A couple…
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The Principle of Sustainability and Balance
The Principle of Sustainability and Balance The principle of sustainability is a balance between social, environmental and economic domains (Environment Agency, n.d.). To get a better grasp on the principle of sustainability and balance we start from the idea of oscillations in a state where dynamic systems find synchronisation across many different time scales within…
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SDSN Youth Program – A Project Reflection – A Park for Women and Mental Health
SDSN Youth Program – A Project Reflection – A Park for Women and Mental Health This year I was lucky to participate in the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) – Youth Initiative Local Pathways Fellowship program. I’ve now completed program and have a project and certificate for my work. There is so much that I…
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Community Well-Being: Safer, More Inclusive, More Resilient and More Sustainable Communities
Community Well-Being: Safer, More Inclusive, More Resilient and More Sustainable Communities This article was updated: 15/07/2025 After Lismore 2022 flood a public survey distributed by Lismore council on ‘Housing and Growth for Lismore’s Future’ was thematically analysed for post-flood urban development to identify community supportedsolutions. Most of the comments struck at practical solutions. For example,…