I'm soon off to join 280+ others at a TED-type conference in Lodz Poland arranged by Pawel Sroczynski and team. It's focused on 'Cohabitation', which includes presentations on ecological building, solar, social, perma-agro, and a whole bunch of other issues served in 17 minute portions.
It's an ...
Altaitsudz means 'Golden' ('altai') 'Cup' ('tsudz'), and as we descend from the rocky grey hillsides into the basin below, the reason for its name becomes obvious.
Around 60km away from, and 300m below Ulgii City's average elevation
(1,600m above sea level), it is considerably warmer here duri...
During the month of March 2011 the Pucon Transition Initiative held its opening public meeting to launch a series of events for the year. With Andrew Langford and Liora Adler of Gaia University in attendance the first public event was a roaring success.
After almost a year of planning, networkin...
Problem: Heavy rainfall was flooding garage/workshop because of sloping concrete driveway.
Solution: Redirect run off down the side of the building to water fruit trees.
I found a length of acrlyic on the council pick up that would be ideal for a water diversion strip.
The piece was cut in ...
In
our reading room this week, it’s all about interconnection. The vast,
unseen webs of mycelium running through the soil, and the tangled and
huge implications of Genetically Modified Organisms.
The World According to Monsanto is a book
that really scratches the itch. Which itch? That...
A residential permacultural project in the outskirts of Brasilia, Brazil's capital, willing to be a sustainable inspiration for the city's urban sprawl, with some social participatory tools along with permacultural/ecological design.
Last week we relegated 20 years of politics to the garbage bin (well, we would have composted it if it was a physical thing), and left the most recent meeting about a community garden within nothing at all.
Since then, Nicky and I have designed the first conceptual plan for what we believe would...
An inspiring TED talk from Charlie Price from Aquaponics UK as he explores the role aquaponics can play in providing food security in UK towns and cities. In this talk, Charlie shows how cities in the UK can combine aquaponics with many permaculture principles like chickens on the roof and mushro...
last week our region experienced the second largest flood recorded (the biggest ever was the 1971 monster) .... here's our little creek - flood waters are dropping rapidly (usually a small stream) ....
The Bega Valley is much flatter than our hilly place - so things were a
whole lot more ser...
I did a search on the (famous) Keralan forest gardens on google when in India last year - nothing came up, so I decided I should go there and take some pictures so people could see what they actually look like. On the day I found some I was actually looking for dolmens - yes there were rumoured t...
I’m living in Zone 2 in West London and have found it a challenge since I arrived to find permaculture sites within an hour’s travel time door to door on public transport. Space is limited and expensive and I guess the transient nature of central London’s residents isn’t conducive to these sorts...
Join internationally-renowned permaculture designer and teacher, Rosemary Morrow on the beautiful Island of Lefkas, Greece, for an internationally recognised permaculture design course. Over 15 days you will learn the basic theory of permaculture ethics, principles, design processes and implement...
Join internationally-renowned permaculture designer and teacher, Rosemary Morrow on the beautiful Island of Lefkas, Greece, for an internationally recognised permaculture design course. Over 15 days you will learn the basic theory of permaculture ethics, principles, design processes and implement...
O espaço do projeto Trasdisciplinar precisava de uma casinha para ferramentas. Um construtor fez a estrutura da casinha de 3m por 3m com madeiras de demolição e os grupos de alunos de 11 e 12 anos foram fazendo os panos das paredes, com técnicas como cob, palha leve, pau-a-pique duplo.
A prepara...
The aim of this international forum is to network non commercial/free sharing/pro indigenous people's tribal give away paradigm type permaculture/forest gardening activities etc, particularly in a ‘cool temperate’ type climate.
