Urban Projects
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A Solar Powered Life – Part I
Photo of the house showing some of the solar panels and solar hot water system I was happy to read…
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Update on the Jordan Valley Permaculture Project (aka ‘Greening the Desert, the Sequel’): “Leave All Expectations Behind”
I felt fully prepared leaving for Jordan three weeks ago. Equipped with a 55ltr backpack laden with books, a compost…
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Community Gardens Visited and Observed: Veggie Village in Peregian Beach
Community gardens are a very valuable demonstration of how a community can grow its own food, provide its own power,…
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How We Designed Our Solar Greenhouse
by Rob Avis We live and garden on an urban lot in Calgary, Canada, located on the 51st parallel north…
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Village Towns
Vandana Shiva, an internationally recognized Indian activist and philosopher, explains that planning for the human being rather than the automobile…
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City Kids Move to the Country – Part IV
Editor’s Note: This article was written in mid-December, when Queensland’s rains were nothing like that witnessed of late, and which…
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Support the Latest PDC in the West Bank!
The view at sunset, westwards from Marda, Palestine Photograph © copyright Craig Mackintosh Preparations are being made for the upcoming…
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Indoor Farm in Tokyo
by Cecilia Macaulay Conference room, Head office, Pasona Group Inc. With all my Japan projects bedded down for the winter,…
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