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Each Step is the Way – Part II
[Editor’s Note: If you are involved in a project, anywhere, that is rooted in sustainability (i.e. that is aimed at…
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Each Step is the Way – Part I
Editor’s Note: David Perkins recently sat his PDC with Geoff Lawton and Darren Doherty, and has been very busy since….…
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Taking the Tragedy Out of Wildfires with Permaculture Design
Recent wildfires in Australia shocked the nation, and the world – killing more than 200 people, untold creatures, buildings and…
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Tackling Urban Water Runoff in a Sydney Suburb
Swales aren’t often found in backyards, and water systems are the backbone of a permaculture design, so the Permaculture Sydney…
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Report on our Iranian Consultancy Trip of December 2008
Editor’s Note: Iran has been making headlines in the media a great deal over the last few years. Here’s a…
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Greening the Desert Project Outcomes Profiled
Most readers will be familiar with the awesome, seemingly miraculous work Geoff and Nadia Lawton accomplished with the ‘Greening the…
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Reality Check one two…one two
If you were to get up and walk to the sink and turn on the faucet, there is a pretty…
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Street Orchards for Community Security
© Brad Lancaster, www.HarvestingRainwater.com Fig. 24.The heat island effect. An excessively wide, exposed, solar-oven-like residential street in Tucson, Arizona absorbs…
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Vetiver Grass – A Hedge Against Erosion
PIJ #54, March – May 1995 Soil erosion is perhaps the world’s most chronic environmental problem that is literally costing…
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Desert Ways
Mongongo Tree Whether it is an issue of conserving water of using suitable plant species, thriving in a desert environment…
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Design for the Human Life Cycle
by Permaculture designer, Robyn Francis (see also). Photo: Craig Mackintosh It seems to be a common failing in a society…
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