Design
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The Hunt for Low Energy Houses
by Jessica Ryall You don’t need a super-fantastic-amazing funny-looking low energy house to cut down your home energy use if…
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James Kalb Interviews Nikos Salingaros on Architecture’s Influence on Society and Consumerism
Interview by James Kalb of The Philidelphia Society, August 2011 Home sweet home? Nikos Salingaros, the mathematician and architectural theorist,…
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Jordan Valley Permaculture Project Update: Post IPC Happenings
An aerial view of the site Although the landscape here could be seen as a model for scarcity, what there…
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From Ideology to Technology
by Øyvind Holmstad Michael Mehaffy and Nikos Salingaros are running a series of essays in Metropolis Magazine at the moment,…
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Getaway Films Talks to David Spicer About Water Issues in Morocco (Video)
Here’s a sneak peek at Morocco — looking at water issues and the need to relearn traditional catchment management whilst…
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U.S. Carbon Emissions Down 7 Percent in Four Years: Even Bigger Drops Coming
by Lester R. Brown, Earth Policy Institute Between 2007 and 2011, carbon emissions from coal use in the United States…
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Owen Hablutzel: “Water and Transformation in Dryland Systems – Resilience Science & Keyline Application” (IPC10 Presentation – Video)
Owen’s talk here is quite fascinating. While most in permaculture will recognise the importance of mainframe design, Owen’s talk goes…
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Small Update on the Recent Small Dam and Fish Pond Installation (Video)
Five days ago I edited together and uploaded some video files that Geoff Lawton sent through of a recent small…
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Potatoes in a Woodrow Style Mandala Bed
A technique for mounding potatoes in a mandala bed without importing soil, with the benefit of improving fertility and increasing…
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Rocket Stove Water Heater Redux
Rocket stoves are awesome, experimental, and a knowledge stream in flux. Or ours is, at any rate. Our rocket stove…
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Solar Power 2011 – Solar PV Breaks Records in 2010
by Lester R. Brown, Earth Policy Institute Solar photovoltaic (PV) companies manufactured a record 24,000 megawatts of PV cells worldwide…
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Small Dam/Fish Pond Installation – October 2011 Earthworks Course with Geoff Lawton
In this short video Geoff walks us through an overview of a small dam/fish pond installation at the PRI’s Zaytuna…
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