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Chores by Design
When the concept of sustainability moves past buying things labeled “green” into personal action, the cold hard truth is that…
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What do lizards, procrastination, and Permaculture principles have to do with your brain? Part 5
This is Part 5 in a series about using Permaculture principles to train your “lizard-brain.”[i] In Parts 1 and 2…
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The Most Ethical Renewable Energy Systems
The main thing in renewable energy systems is the embodied energy: the energy over the lifetime of the product versus…
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What do lizards, procrastination, and Permaculture principles have to do with your brain? Part 1
Did you know there’s a lizard in your brain that’s the source of all your resistance to difficult, boring,…
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Unwanted Chemical Pool Gets Permaculture Makeover
Six months into our pool to pond conversion and the problem really has become the solution. For some time, we…
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How to Make Instant Garden Beds
A common problem when just starting a garden is dealing with the fact that we’ve not had time to condition…
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How To Motivate Kids To Learn About Permaculture
When my kids were toddlers, they wanted to help me in the garden every spring. They were more than happy…
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How Dry Composting Toilets Work
Dry composting toilets are an efficient, cyclical way of dealing with human waste without using and/or fouling fresh water, which…
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Real food does not come from supermarkets: 6 steps from bare ground to homegrown cauliflowers
I imagine that when our grandchildren and great grandchildren read in history books about the supermarkets we relied upon for…
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Straw Bale Gardens
What do straw, paint brushes and the human blood circularity system have in common? The answer is capillaries, very narrow,…
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Killer Natural Plaster Recipe
In this article I’m going to share with you my killer recipe for a final plaster that I have used…
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