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Free workshops on cob buildings

Karyn Maher
Cob building is thought by many to be the world's most sustainable  building method.  Meeting Permcaulture principles, buildings can be made simply from materials found on the property - the main ingredients are clay, sand, straw, water and love. Whilst labour intensive, it requires little in t...

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Red de Guardianes de Semillas

Red de Guardianes de Semillas
Network of local innovators working in Ecuador and South Colombia.
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Mother, Sun, and the Compost Pile for Joseph Campbell Foundation MythNow Blog by Willi Paul

Willi Paul
Mother, Sun, and the Compost Pile for Joseph Campbell Foundation MythNow Blog by Willi Paulhttp://www.jcf.org/new/index.php?categoryid=37Students have told me they are fearful for the environment, the oceans are sick, but that there could be some sort of shift ahead. A sustainable path? I hope so...

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Fernglade Farm

Fernglade Farm
The project involves owner building a self sufficient bushfire resistant residence surrounded by a food forest (300+ trees so far) plus raised no dig vegetable, herbs and seedling beds (12 beds so far) experiments with hugelkultur plus chickens (12 chooks)
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Wildstar Farm First Fruits Benefit This Sunday!

Kerrick Lucker
Hi, folks! Those of you within the SF Bay Area foodshed are cordially invited to Wildstar Farm and Folk School's First Fruits Benefit, this Sunday from 4-6pm at Post Meridian, a chic restaurant in North Berkeley/Kensington whose chef-owner is a supporter of ours. Click here for the details. We...
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Travelling in New Zealand

Elaine Codling
Road trip in NZ is fabulous I have some great pictures of erosion patterns for my files. The housing is reasonably sized and there isn't a huge glut of fast food giants dominating the towns and cities. The places cries out for permaculture. Solar green houses. reforestation, etc. It would all be ...
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Eco-Cabana systems design - blackwater and more

John Schinnerer
This is a brief intro to this particular project - more news (and eventually pictures) as it happens. A friend of mine who is a long-time builder and cabinet maker and also has an interest in alternative building materials and methods is building a prototype-demonstration dwelling that he calls ...
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Strawberry tree.

Henk van der Weijst
Strawberry tree. Strawberrys grow in soil on ground level. We are used to it. Effective with enough soil and space, but ineffective in little gardens. Cities are a permanent part of nature. You can like ore dislike it, it's a fact. And Darwin said: "be fitted", and you will have the biggest cha...

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NGO "Permaculture in Ukraine"

NGO "Permaculture in Ukraine"
The general aim of Association is the support and promotion of the permaculture development in Ukraine. We want to unify the efforts of those who have already successfully apply permaculture techniques in their households and to give them an opportunity to share experiences and support newcomers ...
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Soil repairs after earthworks

Chris McLeod
My 22 acres is in a fairly cool environment for the mainland of Australia with an elavation above sea level of around 700m (with the main ridge rising to over 1,000m). Recently I've had a 20 tonne excavator in doing the sort of work that they love doing. Actually, the operator was helping clean u...

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Permaculture in Action; Water harvesting

Jan Zijlstra
Time:         Sunday 10 April, 12.00 - 15.00h Location:    Kalen`s Land                  http://goo.gl/maps/kHt0                  Govrlevo __________________________________________________________Kalen, platform for self realization and sustainable ways of Lifeinvites you to join a Permacult...
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Condor/Eagle Chapter PermaVillage

Condor/Eagle Chapter PermaVillage
Condor/Eagle Chapter of the Nemenhah Indigenous People working together as an Intentional Community to integrate Permaculture into their Healing Life Way.
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Shepherd's House (Nashville) Nemenhah PermaVillage
Nemenhah Chapter working together to integrate Permaculture as a Life/Healing Way.
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Ridge Dam Construction at Zaytuna

Gordon Williams
On the 31st of January the Permaculture Earthworks course at Zaytuna farm began with good weather and a group of enthusiastic students ready to see the process of laying the groundwork for functional rainwater harvesting features in landscapes. During the week a variety of works were conducte...

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PEACE Project @ James Cook University

Leon van Wyk
This is a very brief glimpse into what Permaculture Townsville, Inc. is currently planning in collaboration with James Cook University, a world renowned University in tropical Australia. As part of the TropECO Program (more details HERE <http://www.jcu.edu.au/tropeco/>) which I helped laun...
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Quiet Revolution featured on TransitionVoice.com

Matthew Lynch
Upon entering Bayan Ulgii province we saw no trees until we finally arrived in Ulgii City. Locals can remember that only two generations ago, the river flats of Ulgii City, and much of the rest of the province, were covered in trees. Just like the Lorax in Dr. Suess’ fable, all were cut do...
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forbes news: solar coming to saudi arabia

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http://blogs.forbes.com/jeffmcmahon/2011/04/04/saudis-switch-to-solar-nuclear-to-export-more-oil/
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Lowering poles

Wendy Howard
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