Attempting to find a new peaceful way to protest by empowering others with low tech solutions/substitutions too energy hogging technology while living in harmony with nature.

As discussed last blog Six Senses Resorts and Spa’s commitment to a sustainable future commenced at Eco Centro on the Flag Ship Soneva Fushi.   As Soneva Fushi has grown and developed the “Waste to Wealth … Eco Centro” and progressed with sustainable systems to turn most waste into some form o...

What do you do for fresh greens when you live in a factory??? Never say impossible! Wicking pots behind the waste and recycle bins works for us.  

Developing Community Sufficiency Technologies based on the co-ownership of the capacity to produce basic goods and services for consumption by the producers.

Just got back to my home SE of Melbourne after a week long PDC teacher training course with Geoff Lawton at Zaytuna farm in Northern NSW. The week was spent with participants who were there just for the week as well as guys 5 weeks into their 10 week internship. All were great people from varied...

We are looking for an experienced permaculturist to join us in partnership to develop a 50 acre farm in the heart of beautiful Slovenia. For more details please contact us on [email protected] or visit our web site www.veduna-centre.com  

Although most of our plants just look cold, our sunflowers have bit the dust. As have any tomatoes that lasted this long. So, time to mark our calendar for 11/11 as the date when the hardiest of our frost intolerant crops bit the dust this year! I think the sunflowers will inch along for a few m...

It seems that the universe has been working towards this for a couple of months, maybe even a year already. Hindsight is of course a fenomenal thing :-) but now I realise that little by little I have been wanting to know more about Permaculture, learn about our impact on nature's resources, be ac...

A picture of Our Rhode Island Reds... In the surrounds of our house block

To turn worn out suburban (ex farmland) into clean,green,chemical free,healthy productive land,again since it was first cleared.. Long time ago

http://permaculturaportugal.ning.com/events/oficina-constru-o-de-swales-regenerar-o-solo-e-manter-a-gua-na   Workshop content Conteúdos da Oficina Observar e Reconhecer padrões na paisagem - To observe and recognise water patterns in the landscape Interpretar a biodiversidade - To interpret ...

If anyone is interested in assisting in designing, planting and working on a food forest in the Crookwell region please let me know.  I have been collecting fruit and nuts for an orchard and want to get them in the ground soon.  I have a variety of species to see which ones grow best in my area. ...

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(This article is published at the Permaculture Research Institute of Australia, at Energy Bulletin, USA, and at the P2P-blog. To be found on my own blog Permaliv here.) Michael Mehaffy and Nikos Salingaros are running a series of essays in Metropolis Magazine at the moment, they are all publishe...

In december I started cutting the first exotic shrubs, starting with the Aucuba japonicas which were everywhere and a bamboo plant that was blocking the entire sight on the garden from the house. I still left the rest till next winter because I first wanted to see them in summer with leaves and f...

After the first big clean-up we decided to set up a central plot for annual and perennial vegetables this year still, so that we will be able to have a yield next growing season. A large quantity of cardboard was used to cover the grasses and we bought 15 m³ of compost. The problem with the deliv...

The aim of this garden is to demonstrate what permaculture can do for people, to explain the principles in practice, to organise work shops to deepen the understanding of the principles. It is also meant as a gathering place for the whole village to experience permaculture, transition, living sim...

We had 3 important tasks to accomplish today: 1. Planting the first seeds in the seedling flats 2. Creating a rainwater capture system 3. Build a nursery The kick-off today was slow and discouraging... we had the sense the Pygmies weren't grasping the importance of the small steps we've ...