Community Projects
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A Permaculture Consultancy in Ethiopia
Two hundred kilometers south of Addis we turn left at a little town called Achamo, and dive off the tarmac…
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The Rise and Fall and Rise of Great Public Spaces
Why we need parks, streetlife, squares, markets, trails, community gardens and other hang-outs more than ever. by Jay Walljasper, On…
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Pietro Zucchetti Interviews Chris Evans
Chris Evans, who co-created the invaluable Farmers’ Handbook, has lived and worked in Nepal since 1985, co-founding the Jajarkot Permaculture…
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Letters from New Zealand – Koanga Sows Seeds of Change
Current evidence indicates that New Zealand may well be "the youngest country on earth". Possible fellow competitors for this claim…
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Preparing Our Children For a Resilient Future, Part II: Food Security
I doubt many would disagree that food is one of the most important things that we are going to need…
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Hope for a New Era: Before/After Examples of Permaculture Earth Restoration – Solving Our Problems From the Ground Up
If you aren’t in a reading mood, and/or just came to look at the before/after photographs, click here to jump…
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Rio+20: What Ecovillages Offer
It is the start of Rio+20, the UN Conference on Sustainable Development, and the Global Ecovillage Network has a strong…
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PRI Networking, the Value of Collaboration, and the Development of More PRI Education/Demonstration Projects
Do we segregate…? Photos © PRI Most of us are by now wholly cognizant of the fact that the global…
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Julious Piti from the Hugely Successful Chikukwa Project (Zimbabwe, Africa) to Give Talk in Santa Barbara (July 1, 2012)
When: Sunday July 1, 6:30-9pm, 2012 Where: Fe Bland Auditorium, Santa Barbara City College, West Campus Cost: $10-$5 SBCC Students…
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Jordan PDC and Jordan Internship (October, November, 2012)
The triangular shaped ‘Greening the Desert – the Sequel’ site, a two-year comparison. Photographs © Craig Mackintosh The next Jordan…
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Permaculture: a Path Toward a More Sustainable Amazon?
Originally published on Mongabay.com An Eco-Ola permaculture plot with yuca, beans, sacha inchi, bananas, charapitas, herba luisa, and moringa in…
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FRESH, the World’s Wildest Supermarket (June 2012 Update)
An update on the FRESH project — the world’s wildest supermarket — underway here in Denmark. Urban farmers take over…
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