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Punta Mona Education Center for Sustain...

Punta Mona Education Center for Sustainable Living
Punta Mona is an 85 acre off the grid, family owned environmental education center, botanical collection, permaculture farm and eco-lodge, dedicated to sustainable ways of living.
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to mulch or not to mulch

Marc Van Hummelen
Wherever you are in this world, when you want to start a garden, there will most likely be something wrong with the soil and you will have to put energy and time in it to amend it: the soil might be too dry, or low in nutrients and microbial life, overly ploughed and degraded, full of rocks, too ...
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La Ecoilla

La Ecoilla
La EcoVilla is a new concept in sustainable development. A new model designed and planned with permaculture principles enabling the creation of more sustainable energy and food sources. La EcoVilla is focused on the values based of environmental protection, organic agriculture and oriented tow...
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Fuente Verde

Fuente Verde
Fuente Verde is an ecological farm located in the mountains of Costa Rica, overlooking the Pacific Coast. It is designed according to permaculture principles as a sustainable eco-friendly environment to support and sustain its community members.
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Hunkering down for another Canadian winter..

Bronwyn White
Winter in Winnipeg is pretty darn cold.. Everything is frozen, deeply! Today was a beautiful day to get out and prepare my compost for the coming winter - it's a big experiment for me, seeing as how I'm more familiar with sub-tropics/tropics. Looking forward to learning more about this climatic z...
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PDC em MInas Gerais

Suzana Maringoni
Em parceria com a permacultora Rosileli, outro PDC, seguindo o programa de Bill Mollison, desta vez em um bioma diferente, nas montanhas de Baependi MG.  O grupo de mineiros, paulistas e cariocas super aminados, fez com que as 90 horas de curso passassem rapidamente!  
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First Organic Harvest at EL ESPEJO

Thiago Torres
We are very happy to inform that our first harvest has been successful.  We have lots of learned lessons. We have lots to do here. I have been trying to get in contact with Mr Jeoff team for making a learning center from this land but had no answer, so we are moving little by little with this pr...
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Permacultural 3 in 1

Daniel Sousa
This is what we've made, in a corner that we needed to place a water deposit to irrigate. We've come up with this, a support to the water container, two vertical gardens, and a compost container that can also be use to worms, etc..

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Portuguese Institute agroforest on national TV

Helder Valente
Here is the reportage   http://permaculturaportugal.ning.com/video/permacultura-no-vale-da-lama
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Plataforma de Permacultura

Plataforma de Permacultura
The Permaculture Platform, has two main purposes: establishing in a 700m2 a sustainable system and the recovery of a urban place near by.
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Portable rocket cooker

Marc Van Hummelen
Mari Korhonen inspired me to call it a portable rocket cooker, and that's what it is of course, but this name distinguishes it from the rocket stove mass heater which has a different purpose. I noticed that there's sometimes confusion about the name rocket stove because they think of the mass hea...
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espiral de ervas

Gabriel Guhr
já que agora sou um permacultor com pdc tenho que ter uma espiral de ervas não? hahaha

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cool joliet

cool joliet
The Reedswood Community Oasis is a project that has united neighbors, is upgrading a school yard and will create a meditative labyrinth that could be unique in all the United States.
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Pizza Oven - cooking now!

Mariette Tuohey
A couple of strong young men removed the sand mould - we all breathed a sigh of relief when the whole thing didn't collapse. Another couple of weeks' wait to allow the inside layer of the oven to dry some more, and then the first firing. Daryl had set up the paper and wood for a fire, which was l...

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Woodchipper donated - for the community to use

João Gonçalves
It is now available for 2 euros/hour.   http://centrodeconvergencia.wordpress.com/2011/10/16/novo-bio-triturador-para-a-aldeia-das-amoreiras-sustentavel/   A Aldeia das Amoreiras está agora mais rica e mais sustentável pois tem mais uma máquina para utilização colectiva que permite tritur...
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Bio Char - The future

Mark Garrett
Turning more waste to wealth At Eco Centro we also receive at least 4m3 of bio mass per day and with construction and renovations of Villas and Host accommodation plus furniture making we gather more timber “Waste”   We are able to chip some of the bio mass for the Composting process we use ...

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72h PDC Konso, Ethiopia: Certified Under PRI’s Master Plan

Alex McCausland
Facilitators: Rhamis Kent, Tichafa Makovere, Alex McCausland Dates: December 5th to 18th, 2011 Location: Konso, South Ethiopia Venue: Strawberry Fields Eco Lodge Cost: US$1000 Includes: Course fees, food and accommodation for the period of the course Excludes: Transport, accommodatio...

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