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Adelaide Reskilling Festival

Adelaide Reskilling Festival
Reskilling Festival is a chance for anyone who has any skills to share, and anyone who would like to learn, to get together, share practical skills, stories, ideas, lunch, seeds, recipes and lots of fun.
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A Beginners Guide to working in Sustainable Aid & Overseas Development

Matthew Lynch
link to full article here: A Beginners Guide to working in Sustainable Aid & Overseas Development
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A Beginners Guide to The Edible Garden Revolution

Matthew Lynch
full article available here, including video: A Beginners Guide to The Edible Garden Revolution
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Future projects

Helder Valente
As the large touristic structures arrive in our peculiar and still natural landscape we are starting a design for our social comunity garden.
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Sanctuary One

Sanctuary One is a care farm and domestic animal sanctuary in Southern Oregon. Using permaculture ethics and principles transforming people animals and earth.
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2011: NATURAL BUILDING EXTRAVAGANZA (1, 2, and 3 week participation welcome)

Janell Kapoor
2011: NATURAL BUILDING EXTRAVAGANZA (1, 2, and 3 week participation welcome) Earthen wood-heated ovens, stoves, and fireplaces are highlights of the Extravaganza. PLUS techniques to transform an ordinary house into a Temple; the creation of an earthen courtyard; bamboo design & buildin...

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3-month APPLIED PERMACULTURE & NATURAL BUILDING APPRENTICESHIP

Janell Kapoor
2011: 3-MONTH APPLIED PERMACULTURE & NATURAL BUILDING APPRENTICESHIP From text book to hands-on, in-your-bones, cellular learning! LOCATION Asheville, NC DATES February 28th – May 25th, 2011. See full schedule details below. LIVE YOUR POTENTIAL! Empower your life, your community...

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2-Week Permacuture Design Course in Asheville, NC - March 2011

Janell Kapoor
http://ashevillage.org/category/courses-and-events/2-week-permaculture-design-course/   Innovative and Time-Tested Solutions for a Global Future “Although the problems of the world are growing increasingly more complex, the solutions remain embarrassingly simple” - Bill Mollison LOCATION A...

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New on WPN

Bjorn Bertelsen
Here is some pictuers from the farm.

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Ferrocement cistern with style

John Schinnerer
A design client in Hawai'i wanted something more than a plain old cylindrical catchment tank. They were inspired by the smaller sculptural ferrocement tank in the cover photo of Art Ludwig's book Water Storage. With industrial-scale fabrication expertise from Peter Epperson and his crew at Pacifi...
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Alder Burns
three more photos...two of me teaching, one of me building a cabin's roof frame with pine poles...

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Alder Burns

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The rainbow tree

The rainbow tree
This website is one of the ten designs for my Diploma in Permaculture and an opportunity to help other apprentices on their pathway. It is a real time example of the diploma process evolving along my pathway which I am constantly tweaking and I am happy to share with you. This is my s...
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Our Big Kitchen Garden

Our Big Kitchen Garden
This big Charity kitchen is determined to set a new benchmark for commercial quantities of waste management and be a shining example of sustainable community.
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PDC in Portuguese in July

Christopher Paul Ripley
We are planning and translating the PDC into Portuguese and will be hosting our course in the strawbale house at Quinta dos Merlos as well as outside in the garden. Central Portugal is a hub of permaculture projects and there will be PDC´s in various farms in our area.

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Internatinal permaculture research cent...

Internatinal permaculture research centre Quinta dos Melros
Permaculture research centre experimenting with strawbale design in central Portugal. Incorporating Sepp Holtzer style terraces and a recuperating forest garden after last years fire We will have our first certified PDC this year on the farm.
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241 Bondi Rd Community Garden

241 Bondi Rd Community Garden
Every Saturday we learn, dig and play together, growing and sharing delicious food.
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