Community Projects
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UNCCD Land for Life Award Winners for 2013 (India, Mexico, Africa): Practical, Doable, Magic
Educating small-holder farmers in India Every year the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) presents awards and supportive prize-money…
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My Visit to the Greening the Desert Sequel Site, November 2013
The Jordan Valley Permaculture Proejct (aka ‘Greening the Desert – the Sequel’) in November 2013. (Photo: Geoff Lawton) I experienced…
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Urban Farm Grows Over 1000 Pounds of Produce on Two Lots to Feed Local Community (Baltimore, USA)
Boone Street Farm in Baltimore, Maryland, started in 2010, and looks to be going strong. It’s a great way to…
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Rough, Ready, But Very Real – a November 2013 Update on the Jordan Valley Permaculture Project (aka ‘Greening the Desert – the Sequel’ Site)
Project from above, featuring a garbage-accumulating fence edge Well, you would be hard pressed to find a tougher block of…
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Gangi Setty and the Green Tree Foundation Project (India)
The Green Tree Foundation is a small non-profit organization that promotes permaculture techniques to local farmers in the Antapur district…
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Dam Building Time Lapse (New Zealand)
by Jon Foote A short video of the development of the dam at the ReScape Resilience Education Centre, Dunedin, New…
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Post-2015 Development: Africans Show the Way
Time to move on from redefining the problems and concentrate on solutions already seeded on the ground. by Prof Roger…
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Report on a Permaculture Internship – Strawberry Fields Eco Lodge (Sept-Oct, 2013, Ethiopia)
Editor’s Note: Beginning 2 December 2013, Alex is running another PDC at the developing Strawberry Fields Eco Lodge in southern…
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Moves Towards Sustainability in Shanghai
Shanghai was an amazing city with an incredible energy of opportunity. My only wish was to stay a little longer.…
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Retrofitting a Small Town
For the last four years, I have been dreaming of retrofitting a small town with a group of like-minded individuals…
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Transition Towns – Organizing For Resilience (video)
Rob Hopkins, instigator of the Transition Towns movement, is on tour in the U.S. This video is a 90 minute…
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The Planet Fund – Update
The Planet Fund: Crowdfunding the restoration of environment and communities. It’s been an extremely exciting month since the launch of…
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