Several, all but empty, gift shops line the main drag here in the small town of Kaunakakai, Moloka`i. Two meager grocers dominate the square's activity. On the edge of town, which is really only about a block wide, there sits a quant old natural food store that reminds me of more than one ol' tow...
Slow Life Symposium 6th – 9 Oct Soneva Fushi Maldives
Over 4 days fun and serious discussion was had at Soneva Fushi hosting the Six Senses S.L.O.W. L.I.F.E. Symposium. www.slowlifesymposium.com
Friendships were formed with a diverse range of people from actors to Government officia...
"The Little House That Could" provides high quality, multi-disciplinary environmental education. A number of kid-friendly posts will occur on our blog during the next eight weeks. Here is an outline of the programme. Please share it with teachers you know.
http://ecothriftydoup.blogspot.com/2...
We are celebrating today! We put in an offer on the piece of land we
wanted to purchase and the answer came back "we will accept your
offer".
We are SO EXCITED! We have been looking for property for over a year,
put in many different offers to purchase for various pieces of land, all were
...
Read more about the project "Casa da Cultura Permanente" at II Festival Latino-americano das Juventudes em Fortaleza-Brasil on:
http://corpofluxo.blogspot.com/2011/10/ii-festival-latino-americano-das.html
Love and light!
Drica
Buenas Dias Amigos,
I would like to begin a conversation with experienced earth builders on the topic of building with earth in the wet tropics. My goal is to explore the pro's and con's of building with earth in a tropical environment and to determine which approach would be most appropriate fo...
This saturday 15 october is going to be
special. We're organising a "Day without electricity". The
challenge is to come through the day using as little energy as
possible. People can submit activities which we will make public on
our website. In the afternoon we're organising a
"fabricole...
2011 has been an exciting year of observing and interacting with the ecosystem that surrounds our urban home. There have been many successes, and many great learnings! Below is a link to some photos which are just a peek at some of the things we have been up to at Verge HQ.
This has been ...
2011 has been an exciting year of observing and interacting with the ecosystem that surrounds our urban home. There have been many successes, and many great learnings! Below is a link to some photos which are just a peek at some of the things we have been up to at Verge HQ.
This has been ...
For our transition to a permacultural world we should pay attention to the achievements of Christopher Alexander. Hopefully most of you are already aware of it, but these days Michael Mehaffy and Nikos Salingaros are running a series summarazing Alexander's work throughouth his career, in Metropo...
In permaculture we often revert to old techniques to be able to avoid the use of machinery or
user- and environment unfriendly materials. One technique that I've
learned this year is hedgelaying. This is a useful technique to
restore old or neglected hedges, it keeps hedges compact and makes
...
El Pedregal is a 9 ha permaculture project in its first stages of development. The main focus of the project is in food forests based on native species.
