Design
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Storing Water in the Landscape: A Swales and Ponds Primer
Rain is one of the leading causes of soil erosion. The problem isn’t with rain itself, but rather with bad…
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How to Pack Zero Waste Lunches For Your Kids
Keeping up with a sustainable lifestyle with children can be a difficult feat. Kids make messes, and messes create garbage.…
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Techniques for Making Your Own Biodegradable Seedling Pots
Those of us who practice permaculture take our mission seriously, and we are doing our best to minimize our use…
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How to Make a Compost Water Heater
Everyone loves hot water in the home, but the ecological cost of long, hot showers powered by fossil-fueled water heaters…
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Benefits of Evaporation Fridges
If you are planning on going off grid or living in a tiny home, a huge obstacle can be putting…
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Benefits of a Composting Toilet
When contemplating living off-grid, a tiny home, or reducing your use of natural resources in your home, one of the…
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Passive Solar Design with Earthen Homes
During a long and cold winter, many of us might wonder if it is possible to stay warm without the…
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How Realistic is Going Waste-Free?
When people say they have gone completely waste-free, they’re inaccurate. That’s not to say they’re “lying”; they probably avoid garbage…
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8 Ways of Using Old Firewood for Something New
Our keen permaculture minds are too sharp to ever believe that something so precious as firewood, past its prime or…
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Broome Residents Question their Lack of Solar Power
The lack of access to solar powered energy has been a long fought battle for the Western Australian residents. Even…
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Closed-Loop Farming in Costa Rica
I woke up to the sound and smell of a chicken coop. It was a mild March morning in La…
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The Benefits of Energy Free Appliances
As people become more aware of their environmental impact there is a growing desire to reduce our energy consumption and…
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