Community Projects
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The Symbiotic work of Plant guilds in a food forest
Volunteers and community members on site during the training. “To know is power” Let us then use our brains with…
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SMART Permaculture in South Ethiopia (Part 1)
A few years back I got an email from a German guy called Oliver Kopsch. He works setting up water…
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Alessandra Orofino: It’s Our City. Let’s Fix It.
Too often, people feel checked out of politics — even at the level of their own city. But urban activist…
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Swales (Continuous Contour Trenches) Bring Water and Life Back to Maharashtra, India
This (unfortunately low-res) video shares the clear, practical benefits of bringing sensible low-tech Permaculture water harvesting techniques such as swales…
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How Painting Can Transform Communities (TED video)
Communities are often built like forests – without a master plan. It all starts with one seed. Artists Jeroen Koolhaas…
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Soil, Struggle and Justice – Agroecology in the Brazilian Landless Movement
This film examines a cooperative of the Brazilian Landless Movement (MST) in the South of Brazil, which struggled for access…
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Permaculture for Pastoralists in the Jordan Valley – Part II
Note: If you haven’t already, you can read Part I here. A Dead Sea Valley family home with their typical…
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Linux for Lettuce
Revolutionizing American agribusiness from the ground up, one seed at a time Photo: Dave Calder From a distance, Jim Myers…
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Calgary Dollars
Calgary Dollars is Calgary’s complementary currency system, started by the Arusha Centre in 1995, that brings together local talents and…
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Permaculture Site Establishment: Phases of Abundance
An abundance of jackfruit at Project Bonafide in Nicaragua Five years ago I had the opportunity to join a land-based…
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An Orchard Grows in Boston
Rebuilding the commons in an economically-divided, violence-scarred neighborhood by Orion Kriegman Egleston Square is a rapidly gentrifying neighborhood, straddling the…
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