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Permaculture for Pastoralists in the Jordan Valley – Part II
Note: If you haven’t already, you can read Part I here. A Dead Sea Valley family home with their typical…
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How To Build an Automatic Chicken Feeder For Free
Here is a simple and clever idea presented in the short video above. It’s the easiest DIY automatic chicken feeder.…
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A No-Straw Clay Pizza Oven
The inaugural use of the clay oven If you are into permaculture, eco-construction and/or just cool garden projects, then building…
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Construction of Holzmiete-Inspired Compost Toilet and Urinal System (Tasmania, Australia)
by Paul Kean, Tiger Hill Permaculture Last year some trees were cleared for milling on the farm and a by-product…
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Composting Toilets Made From Wheelie Bins
I just read a post on composting toilets here on the PRI site and remembered that I never posted about…
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Vertical Farming: Singapore’s Solution to Feed the Local Urban Population
Sky Greens’ vertical farm Introduction The wealthy island city of Singapore with an area of 710 square km and a…
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Land and Freedom – Low-Impact Building in the “Other” Spain
The tsunami of construction that washed over Spain in the decade of the 2000s has drawn back, leaving behind some…
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Tippy-Tap: An Outdoor Hand-washing Device
‘Mukombe’ Tippy-Tap Every year, 3.5 million children die from diarrhea and acute respiratory infection in developing countries. A simple act…
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Creating the Alternative: Journey to The California Institute of Earth Art and Architecture
by Mo Lohre and Will Redwine Geoff Lawton, Rumi, poisonous berries, student activists, NASA lunar/Martian construction and breaking a vow….…
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Keeping Cool Without Air Conditioning, Part I: The Cool Pool
Staying cool without an air conditioner is possible. It is easier in hot, dry areas. A building that gets too…
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Reconnecting Architects with the Community
Marcin Gerwin: It happens quite often that when a new building is completed many people see it as unpleasant or…
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The Multi Bioregion Earthship
Adaptation – any alteration in the structure or function of an organism or any of its parts that results from…
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