Earthworks & Earth Resources
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Industrial Starch and Bioplastic from Non-Destructively Harvested Perennials
This article is an excerpt from my forthcoming book Carbon Farming: A Global Toolkit for Stabilizing the Climate with Tree…
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Rocky Resources
Every geographic area has a resource waiting to be used. I want to talk about areas that have stone easily…
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Strawberry Fields Update: Flood Protection and Water Control in Ethiopia, Part II
We previously published a report on the development of our site’s flood control and defense infrastructure in October 2010. This…
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Ridge to Valley – a Holistic Watershed Perspective
This excellent little 20-minute video does a great job of covering the basics of watershed management and landscape rehydration. You…
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Wadi Hadhramaut – the Start of a Large New Rehabilitation Project in Yemen
Shibam: UNESCO World Heritage site I was recently privileged to be part of the team that accompanied Geoff and Nadia…
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Talking Swales
While at Wadeye, Northern Territory, Australia, installing a permaculture design for Earth Ethics, this video was taken when I was…
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My Experience of Permaculture Aid Work in Ethiopia
I’m not sure it’s possible, looking back now, to say exactly what I was expecting when I hopped on that…
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Pigscavation to Help Water Penetration
Capturing water before it runs off your property is key to rehydrating parched landscapes. Building ‘swales’ or channels along contour…
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How To Survive the Coming Crises (free Geoff Lawton video)
At time of writing, our Zaytuna Farm Video Tour video has had almost 11,000 views, after only six months. A…
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Planting Days Are Here! (Al Baydha, Saudi Arabia)
by Neal Spackman This week the project started planting the swales with 1000 very hardy desert trees. The team is…
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Permagardens In Practice: Resilience in Action (Uganda, Africa)
PDCs are tricky. For two weeks we tumble into this community of unfamiliarly familiar, curious strangers. The constant whirlwind of…
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