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What we’re reading: Monsanto + Mushrooms

Kirsten Bradley
In our reading room this week, it’s all about interconnection. The vast, unseen webs of mycelium running through the soil, and the tangled and huge implications of Genetically Modified Organisms. The World According to Monsanto is a book that really scratches the itch. Which itch? That...
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Sítio Nós na Teia

Sítio Nós na Teia
A residential permacultural project in the outskirts of Brasilia, Brazil's capital, willing to be a sustainable inspiration for the city's urban sprawl, with some social participatory tools along with permacultural/ecological design.
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If you plant it, it will grow

Bryan West
Last week we relegated 20 years of politics to the garbage bin (well, we would have composted it if it was a physical thing), and left the most recent meeting about a community garden within nothing at all. Since then, Nicky and I have designed the first conceptual plan for what we believe would...
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Chickens, Mushrooms and Aquaponics in the UK

Frank Gapinski
An inspiring TED talk from Charlie Price from Aquaponics UK as he explores the role aquaponics can play in providing food security in UK towns and cities. In this talk, Charlie shows how cities in the UK can combine aquaponics with many permaculture principles like chickens on the roof and mushro...

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bega valley floods..... change our plans slightly...

Rhonda Ayliffe
last week our region experienced the second largest flood recorded (the biggest ever was the 1971 monster) .... here's our little creek - flood waters are dropping rapidly (usually a small stream) .... The Bega Valley is much flatter than our hilly place - so things were a whole lot more ser...
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Forest Gardens are fab!

Robin Greenwood
I did a search on the (famous) Keralan forest gardens on google when in India last year - nothing came up, so I decided I should go there and take some pictures so people could see what they actually look like. On the day I found some I was actually looking for dolmens - yes there were rumoured t...
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Permaculture in London

Carly Gillham
I’m living in Zone 2 in West London and have found it a challenge since I arrived to find permaculture sites within an hour’s travel time door to door on public transport.  Space is limited and expensive and I guess the transient nature of central London’s residents isn’t conducive to these sorts...
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A Greek Island PDC With Rosemary Morrow, Paula Paananen and Nicolas Netien!

maria baltazzi
Join internationally-renowned permaculture designer and teacher, Rosemary Morrow on the beautiful Island of Lefkas, Greece, for an internationally recognised permaculture design course. Over 15 days you will learn the basic theory of permaculture ethics, principles, design processes and implement...
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A Greek Island PDC With Rosemary Morrow, Paula Paananen and Nicolas Netien!

maria baltazzi
Join internationally-renowned permaculture designer and teacher, Rosemary Morrow on the beautiful Island of Lefkas, Greece, for an internationally recognised permaculture design course. Over 15 days you will learn the basic theory of permaculture ethics, principles, design processes and implement...
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Bioconstrução

Suzana Maringoni
O espaço do projeto Trasdisciplinar precisava de uma casinha para ferramentas. Um construtor fez a estrutura da casinha de 3m por 3m com madeiras de demolição e os grupos de alunos de 11 e 12 anos foram fazendo os panos das paredes, com técnicas como cob, palha leve, pau-a-pique duplo. A prepara...
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Growing nut trees in the field and wild for cool temperate climates

Robin Greenwood
https://we.riseup.net/permacultureforestgardening/planting-nut-trees-%E2%80%93-in-the-wild-and-the-field
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Free sharing paradigm permaculture/fore...

Free sharing paradigm permaculture/forest gardening/nut tree growing network
The aim of this international forum is to network non commercial/free sharing/pro indigenous people's tribal give away paradigm type permaculture/forest gardening activities etc, particularly in a ‘cool temperate’ type climate.
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Lahaul and Spiti, Himalayas 2010. Some photos of indigenous agriculture and greenery projects plus a few others for good luck

Robin Greenwood
http://londonpermaculturalists.ning.com/photo/albums/lahaul-and-spiti-himalayas
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Bender tents - based on traditional British dwellings that work very well and have good potential in many situations including disaster relief

Robin Greenwood
Basically I'm going to link to sister sites as well as uploading some more photos here. We used to make these 'benders' living on 'convoy' (uk hippy traveller) sites and the like a few years ago. I've often thought how they could be of great use to folks around the world, for example in the curre...

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A Seed & Some Prayers: Incorporating New Myth Making, Alchemy & the Sacred in Bill Mollison’s Gaia Manifesto by Willi Paul

Willi Paul
A Seed & Some Prayers: Incorporating New Myth Making, Alchemy & the Sacred in Bill Mollison’s Gaia Manifesto by Willi Paul. Co-Sponsored by CommunityAlchemy.com with openmythsource.comhttp://www.planetshifter.com/node/1839

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Permaculture Orchard Renovation

Ethan Roland
Permaculture Orchard Renovation (Note from Ethan: This post is a final design report by the 2010 AppleSeed Permaculture Interns Brandy Hall (Ashevillage Institute & owner of Shades of Green, Inc) and Evan Schoepke (Gaia Punk Design Co-op & Punk Rock Permaculture E-Zine). The full des...
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Natural Wine Natural Food

Mark Garrett
Here are the links for you: http://www.thatcrazyfrenchwoman.com/video-diary/mark-garrett-permaculture-real-sustainability http://www.thatcrazyfrenchwoman.com/video-diary/mark-garrett-permaculturist-no-dig-gardening-and-viticulture http://www.thatcrazyfrenchwoman.com/video-diary/mark-garrett-pe...
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Al Baydha Project Youtube Channel

Neal Spackman
The video page will be updated at least on a monthly basis, though probably more often than that.  

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