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...

New Mexico Book Co-op: 2011 New Mexico Book Award Finalists

  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 ...

I hope I see you all there!

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.

The Inland Northwest Permaculture Conference (INWPC) is coming together for an epic good time and community-building learning experience the weekend of November 4-6, 2011.  This first ever gathering is in Spokane, WA but we're expecting to have other communities host similar events yearly.  With ...

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Read more about food sovereignty and how it links to permaculture here.

Planting Natasha's trees was my first act of permaculture since the course. She gave me a tree to put in my own yard, so it will be the first step to adding more edibles in my urban yard.

We have a brand new web site. Please follow the links below and you may wish to join us on Face Book too.Check out our brand new website:- “The earth does not belong to men; men belong to the earth.” ~ Sri Aurobindo* Check out our brand new website * Join The Himalayan Farm Project on Facebook...

Composting is probably a generally accepted and usually enthusiastically applied method among permaculturists to process all kinds of organic materials. All organic processes in our immediate environment produce extra material to make compost of. But it seems that many still do not see thems...

1 hectare organic veggie garden