Design
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Thoughts on a Permaculture Kitchen
For Emma and me, our permaculture fantasies involve building our own home, growing 90-plus percent of our food (I guess…
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Principles for Designing a Holistic Food System
Most people have an unconscious feeling that we can´t continue down the path we´re currently on. The supposed abundance witnessed…
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Heating (and Cooling) Passively When It’s Too Late to Design Your Home for It
One of the more difficult things about taking on a permaculture lifestyle when we already have an established residence is…
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Assessing a Property Before Designing It
For the purpose of this article and the scope of which I’m looking to explore, we are going to begin…
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The Need to Limit Energy Use
Energy: An Addiction or a Necessity? Energy is arguably the most defining aspect of industrial civilization. For the first couple…
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Diversity and Scale
Functional, productive diversity is an essential element in the design science of permaculture. Diversity is a very good thing and…
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Lawns to Gardens
Lawn Island Farms, whose mission is to turn Suburban Lawns to Suburban Gardens, was founded by Jim and Rosette Adams…
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Reducing Resource Use (Energy and Water) in Industrialised Farms
Resources such as energy and water are consumed directly and indirectly throughout the supply chain of products emancipating from industrialised…
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Cold Frames, How and Why
Before moving to the temperate climate, I’d assumed that winter was pretty much a wash for growing a decent crop.…
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5 “Grow-Your-Own” Mulch Plants for the Tropics
The tropical forest is constantly self-mulching. After a walk in the woods I usually return with bits of leaves and…
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Wattle and Daub: A Quick, Easy, and Seismic Resistant Natural Building Option
Many people dream about building their own earthen home, whether that be from cob, adobe, rammed earth, or any other…
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Going Off The Grid To Cost Others
Victorian power company AusNet Services is sharing evidence of parliamentary pushing to update the industry that is ever-changing and incredibly…
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