Permaculture infiltrates Kalani retreat center on Hawai'i Island

Second Watson wick derived biofilter installed

All but final mulching and planting out are complete for another Watson wick based biofilter for domestic black and gray water.

Bamboo-framed Eco-Cabana dwelling

Long-time builder and bamboo booster Danny Li has built a bamboo-framed, fabric-walled modular dwelling prototype that also incorporates alternative energy and waste-as-resource technologies

Governance & organizational design workshop in Brisbane mid-March

FoodConnect hosts a sociocracy whole systems governance and organizational design workshop - permaculture for people - mid-March in Brisbane, Australia

Biofilter testing in progress

Now in use with a varying load, Watson Wick type biofilter starts 'real' testing

Eco-cabana biofilter progressing again

Back to work on final stages of blackwater-graywater system for this project.

Eco-Cabana systems design - blackwater and more

Alternative building project will have blackwater as well as graywater systems

Ferrocement cistern with style

Ferrocement catchment tanks don't have to be boring cylinders!