Water Conservation
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The Rocket Powered Shower
Plan for our Rocket-Powered hot water system for the Basecamp shower + bath block Spending all your day gathering sticks…
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Letters from Sri Lanka – Greywater Recycling at Kuttam Pokuna (the Twin Pools)
Novice Buddhist monks listen to their instructor Photos Copyright © Craig Mackintosh Last time I spoke about the world’s largest…
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Letters from Sri Lanka – The World’s Largest Water Harvesting Earthworks Project
A mahout and his elephant (the elephant is the one on the left) Photos Copyright © Craig Mackintosh Preamble: Okay,…
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Life at Zaytuna – Rainy Days
Photos copyright © Craig Mackintosh The area around Zaytuna Farm recently experienced the worst floods for many years (since 1974…
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Southern Baja – Unique and Universal Water Challenges
The Baja Peninsula forms an unusual geographic feature – running about 800 miles as the crow flies from the Mexico/California…
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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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Harvesting Urban Drool
© Brad Lancaster, www.HarvestingRainwater.com Urban drool running down concreted channel Tujunga Wash, Los Angeles, California. Photo credit: Brad Lancaster All…
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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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