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International PDC at EcoME

Yotam & Niva Kay
a 10 days residential Permaculture Design Course 19 – 28 April 2012 For Palestinians, Israelis and Internationals There is the possibility of joining us for an introduction to Permaculture on the first weekend 19 – 21 Lead by Niva & Yotam Kay With host lectures by local experts Come and...

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Rak Tamachat Permaculture

Rak Tamachat Permaculture
A 50 acre conventional rice and corn farm in rural Thailand. The owners wanted to transition to a permaculture education site featuring food forests, aquaculture, gardening, natural building, Animals, and other permaculture demonstration systems.
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Cours de conception d’une forêt nourricière - Printemps 2012

Wen Rolland
Cette troisième occurrence du cours vous permettra de comprendre ce système de culture dans notre climat et de vous pratiquer lors de l’implantation d'une nouvelle phase de la forêt nourricière sur le site du cours à Grenville-sur-la-Rouge! La Nature est à la fois la plus inspirante des cl...

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Het Voedselbos

Het Voedselbos
Het Voedselbos would like to be a place that is constantly experimenting with methods to put permaculture into practice. Working and playing together while creating a balanced ecosystem to enjoy and learn from.
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A Global Challenge to Design Visionary Algae Food and Energy Systems

Zeljko Serdar
Landscape Designs • Production Systems • Food Development "How will growing algae change the world and improve our lives?" Participants represent projects in 40 countries and have submitted amazing entries. Visit the exhibits. The Future of Algae video introduces twenty visionary entri...

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Horowhenua Kaikai Harvest season

Donna Takitimu
Kia ora  We met the target of having 330 newly created household food gardens!  Its a buzz.  Although we havent done any marketing since Nov, people are contacting me daily to ask about joining up.  We wanted to offer some degree of quality- but dont have to be everything to everyone.  In fact t...
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Permaculture Design Certification Course

Cathe' Fish
Permaculture Design Certification Course in Northern California When Spring 2012 4 Weekends from Equinox to Solstice: March 31 and April 1 April 28/29 May 19/20 J...

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Permacultura- renovando a relação entre homem e natureza

Suzana Maringoni
Permacultura-  a renovação da relação homem e natureza de  Silvia Pugsley Neste pequeno livro, Silvia Pugsley, uma jovem jornalista tem seu primeiro contato com a permacultura e escreve um belo relato de como vivem a permacultura três diferentes famílias no estado de Santa Catarina, Brasil. Comp...
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Karuna Low impact development fund appeal

Janta Wheelhouse
The primary aim of Karuna Permaculture project is to educate. We feel It is important that Permaculture practice is adopted holistically. This is the best option we have to sustain ourselves in the long run by moving on from a consumer way of life. When land is worked with minimal oil inputs to ...

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8 week program over in Patagonia

Doug Crouch
Well our mission for groiwng food for March was a sucess wtih recieving an email from Ranquilco that they are eating tones of salad and tomatoes and zucchini's galore.  Our attempt at an 8 week practicum wasn't without its hiccups but it was a fairly successful attempt and at new model.  The comp...
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Getting Closer to Construction

Aaron  Elton
So time is pushing forward and my site is getting ever closer to that sit back and relax stage... a few minor installments and one major construction undertaking, THE SUSTAINODOME!!! a multimedia community center of sustainable culture... helping promote and give a platform to local and global en...
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Festival de Permaculture 2012

Steve Read
25th to 29th of July just north of Nice, France The 2012 French Permaculture Festival. Our objectives this year are to bring together a wide variety of environmentally active organisations to see how we can all work together to be more effective at bringing about a socio-ecological evolu...

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Ikskile Transition Initiative celebrates 2 year anniversary

Arturs Polis
Ikskile Transition Initiative from the very beginning of operation, has been a flagman that promotes the transition movement and permaculture in Latvia. We have gained a public interest, 131 e-mail followers and official recognition of the Transition Network. Dozens of our events have edu...
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Eco-reform and Transition guesthouse

Miki Ferrandino
Recently I became part of the team of Payaka, a successfull firm of amazing hemp clothes, running the thai branch shop in Chiangmai, northern Thailand.Besides reforming the physical spaces, the internal dynamincs of the place have totally evolved, transforming a regular guest house in an open hou...

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Proud part of biochar community

Miki Ferrandino
Since its birth in 2011, I am part of the community of Fuoco-Perfetto, an online group of university researchers, professionist and inventors that gathers periodically in Italy, organizing seminars, pubblic events and a very updated database of media, studies and tutorials on biochar production a...

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Finca Tierra

Finca Tierra
Full Video with Ian and Ana at Finca Tierra https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hM5WO5vW00A ----------- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87e7VdYSGLU&list=PL4rkdswGyCzWQzYY2_vGrCvFnCFo9VIP7&index=52&t=12s In 2008 we bought an abandoned cattle pasture, located in the middle of th...
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Splice Slug with Building

Øyvind Holmstad
Illustration: Nikos A. Salingaros. (I've not asked for permission using this image, and it will immediately be removed if I get an objection from the artist) I saw the above slug-building headlined in Norwegian media this morning, and came to remember Nikos' illustration ...
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