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Urban Permaculture

Chief Phillip 'Cloudpiler' Landis
Of the several thousand Members of the Nemenhah Band, most live in urban or suburban environments.  Relatively few live in rural settings or have farm holdings.  Our projects, therefore, do not consider large-scale food production.  We don't have the space, nor the inclination.  We leave that to ...
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Instinctive Permaculturists of Kihaadhoo

Mark Garrett
Please go to www.permaculturemaldives.blogspot.com for the weekly updates of my Permaculture work and living experiences in the Maldives for Soneva Fushi a 5 star Eco Resort working towards a carbon free future.

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Sustainable Heating for Hybrid Home

Chief Phillip 'Cloudpiler' Landis
We intend to leave five of our ten acres completely in wilderness forest.  One thing that struck me about the Oak and Hickory forest is that, for ever acre of second growth you have there will be .8 cords of limbs and branches that fall each year.  This windfall is surplus energy and can be utili...
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PDC Teacher Training course

Gordon Williams
This week was an incredible learning experience with an incredibly knowledgeable and motivating teacher, Rosemary Morrow. Not only did it provide a structure for how to teach the 72hr PDC curriculum, but also gave a great insight into a wide range of both teaching and learning styles, working...
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Location, Climate, Site Survey

Sven Horner
Location: Miesbach (40 km South of Munich), South Germany (Bavaria), EuropeLatitude: 47.806607 N Longitude: 11.83159 E Climate: temperate and marine; cool, cloudy, wet winters and summers; occasional warm foehn wind (Data from 2004)Absolute Max. Temp.: 30,3°C; Min.: -17,8°C Average Max. Te...
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some info

Chad Perrault
This site, stagevu I have found to be a great site to watch anything and not have to download it. I have put a compilation of films I think are relevent to permaculture, albeit they never use the word "permaculture" If anyone reads this, check it out.http://stagevu.com/channel/130629/Learn and Su...
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Graceville Community Garden

Graceville Community Garden
A small and social community garden designed using permaculture, developed in association with Benarrawa community center.
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New Website - Neue Seite

Wir haben unsere Webseite überarbeitet und mit Blog sowie Kommentarmöglichkeit neu veröffentlicht. We updated our site with new CMS and Blog, also possibility to comment. http://www.Vergessene-Künste.de

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Sustainable Agriculture and Economic Learning (SAEL) Project 2011

Matthew Lynch
...some background information about SAEL, as described by ADRA-Mongolia, the NGO facilitating the project:   This project proposes an integrated approach to establish food security in one of the poorest and most remote urban capitals in the country, Bayan Ulgii Province. Mongolia has an e...
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perm@nkara

Emre Rona
Ankara (Türkiye) based permaculture enthusiasts started gathering, meeting and organising activites! With the first meeting held in January 2011, permaculture enthusiasts from Ankara began dreaming and planning activities together, incorporating permaculture ethics and techniques towards ideals ...
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Design Update: Swale system, ponds and rock piles!

Sven Horner
While digging the plant holes for the plantings in (hopefully) the first week of march, I noticed that I didn't consider water harvesting principles and methods enough. Besides spontanously digging a little drainage swale connecting a loam-sealed plant hole to a then created little pond I thought...
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Associação Mondego Vale

Christopher Paul Ripley
Um grupo de pessoas dedicado à promoção do usofruto actual e futuro do Rio Mondego. Queremos partilhar a energia natural e a inspiração que nos traz este Rio. Através dos eventos, actividades e acções que organizamos, procuramos transmitir o nosso carinho por este espaço, aprendendo a cuidar do m...
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Bamboo as Sustainable Building Material

Chief Phillip 'Cloudpiler' Landis
We have elected to use Structural Bamboo as an important part of our wastewater, and erosion control program.  We are capturing all rain runoffs from the roofs of our infrastructure (homes, buildings, hoophouse, etc.) with swales which are surrounded by Bamboo or Willow.  These species use a grea...
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Zoning for Bees

Deano Martin
Whenever I have come across references to zoning in relation to honeybees, it is invariably used to decide where hives should be placed. As a beekeeper and a Permaculturalist, it is also a handy tool to help to decide where to plant different bee forage crops. Sitting here on a wet, cold, Englis...
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Getting There!

Sanjeet D
Feb 18. 2010 Gearing up for PDC starting March 1. Unfortunately, David Spicer lead instructor is unavailable. Looking towards learning from Tichafa and Alex. Excited and intimidated by the long road ahead - PDC is just the first step.  
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Totenåsens Venner, stå på!

Øyvind Holmstad
Fra avisdebatten ang. vindkraftsaken på Totenåsen ser jeg Åsens Venner har blitt anklaget særlig for tre forhold: 1)      De baserer seg på ”følerier” og ”naturromantikk”, og ikke fakta. 2)      De er gjennomsyret av gruppetenkning og flokkmentalitet, der saklighet ikke slipper til....
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Preserving the Harvest

Kate Beveridge
The other day I met up with two women in their sixties who have been friends since they were 13. We had come together to do some preserving. One of the woman, Julie had travelled from her home to show us how to do it. She had married a man who had grown up in a household where preserving was the...
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Turning your swimming pool into a fish farm using the Silver Pearch(Bidyanus Bidyanus)

Vanessa Monge Augusto Fernandes
We decided on Silver Pearch because it was commonly available and extensive research had already been done over many years,it is also a native fish in Australia,originally found in the Murry darling basin but now threatened in the wild.There are regulations and they are strict on what spiecies ar...

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