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A Tool for a User-Generated Polyculture Pattern Language
This article describes the efforts of the Apios Institute to use our website to develop a user–generated pattern language of…
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Polyculture Pattern Language: Nitrogen Fixation Patterns
When Dave Jacke and I were writing Edible Forest Gardens, we discussed polyculture design extensively. We felt that we were…
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Pattern Language and Learning through Music
Bill Mollison believes that today, “we are the worlds most ignorant people and society, whereas former societies were well informed…
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A “Pattern Language” for Women in Permaculture
Children planting pumpkins. Photo by Jeanine Carlson Though women receive the majority of all college degrees in the U.S., and…
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Fungi
Do mushrooms really use language to talk to each other? A fungi expert investigates
Nearly all of Earth’s organisms communicate with each other in one way or another, from the nods and dances and…
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Pattern Understanding
Understanding Patterns – Part 5
Through the previous parts of this article series (1, 2, 3 & 4), we have explored the definition of pattern…
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Pattern Understanding
Understanding Patterns part 4
In part 1 and part 2 of this series I explained the importance of understanding patterns in permaculture specifically, holistic thinking…
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Pattern Understanding
Understanding Patterns – Part 3
In part 1 and part 2 of this series, I gave a basic introduction to ‘pattern understanding’ as it is…
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Pattern Understanding
Understanding Patterns – Part 2
In my previous article, ‘Understanding Patterns – Part 1’, we looked at why pattern understanding is such an important part…
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Pattern Understanding
Understanding Patterns – Part 1
Patterns are present in every aspect of our sensual awareness. Patterns are in the connections within our own bodies and…
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Patterns for Experiential Learning
Co-Authored by Laura Killingbeck How do we learn? When we engage with new information, what enhances or inhibits our ability…
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The Shared Patterns of Indigenous Culture, Permaculture and Digital Commons
by David Bollier Joline Blais Rarely have I read an essay that knits together some very different commons with such…
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