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Edible City – The Movie
https://youtube.com/watch?v=nyMRCQBvonc Edible City is a feature-length documentary film that tells the stories of extraordinary people who are digging their hands…
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David Holmgren on Retrofitting the Suburbs for the Energy Descent Future
Introduction by Samuel Alexander of the Simplicity Institute: I’m pleased to announce that David Holmgren, co-originator of the permaculture concept,…
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Permaculture, a Step by Step Change, Part II – Further Steps: Solar Heating, Easy and Cheap
The most important step Maybe the most important step in the permaculture change is mindset. The day you get motivated…
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Sinking the Lifeboats: Reflections on a Visit to Herbaiet A Nabi, South Hebron Hills
It was on the second week of the PermaNegev course that I arranged a visit to the small village of…
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A Permaculture Consultancy in Ethiopia
Two hundred kilometers south of Addis we turn left at a little town called Achamo, and dive off the tarmac…
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The Rise and Fall and Rise of Great Public Spaces
Why we need parks, streetlife, squares, markets, trails, community gardens and other hang-outs more than ever. by Jay Walljasper, On…
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VEG Design Solutions, Part One: the Chicken/Fox Filter
by Dan Palmer, Very Edible Gardens When designing edible gardens, a site-specific problem will often crop up. One of the…
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Consultancy: Who Needs It? Why Do It? Are You Ready For It?
Photo © Craig Mackintosh It turns out that very few of those that do a PDC end up being consultants.…
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Geoff Lawton’s Zaytuna Farm Video Tour (Apr/May 2012) – Ten Years of (R)Evolutionary Design
Paradise Dam, April 2012, from the now-climaxing food forest Zaytuna Farm Video Tour, duration 41 minutes Having spent the last…
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The Deep Truth of a Sheltering Roof
The roof plays a primal role in our lives. The most primitive buildings are nothing but a roof. If the…
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