Urban Projects
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SOIL (Sustainable Organic Integrated Livelihoods) Turns Problem into Solution With Composting Toilets (Haiti)
A few months ago I shared a three minute video from John D. Liu of the EEMP about the work…
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More Yard Waste to Raised Beds
Shed Bed Continuing from my last post, after cleaning up our yard and several neighbors’ yards from another unusually strong…
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Food For Thought – Permaculture in Schools (South Africa)
Watch the video below, and be inspired. I suspect that if many of our schools had been incorporating this kind…
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Eaglemont Project Matures (Australia)
During the Christmas break VEG’s Dan & family paid a social call to customers-become-friends Julian & Linda in Eaglemont, Victoria,…
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Greening the Desert Internship 2012 – Greener than Ever
Our one month long internship at the Greening the Desert Project (the ‘Sequel site’) just ended. Ten students arriving from…
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Psychedelic Garden Love
by Dr Samuel Alexander, co-director of the Simplicity Institute and a lecturer with the Office for Environmental Programs, University of…
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My Post-Electric Washing Machine: The Deindustrial 2020
by Dr Samuel Alexander, co-director of the Simplicity Institute and a lecturer with the Office for Environmental Programs, University of…
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Growing Your Own: Beginners and Balcony Gardeners
Here are a few useful tips to growing your own fresh organic food when you are low on space, time…
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Cleaning House the Permaculture Way
In permaculture design we look at the inputs and outputs of various components, and try to connect things to each…
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The Edible City
I believe that we will need to produce food in our urban centres, because I can’t figure out how else…
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The Radical Technology of Christopher Alexander
By Michael Mehaffy and Nikos Salingaros. First published in Metropolis Magazine. Though overshadowed by his written work, Alexander’s built work…
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