Water
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Jordan Valley Permaculture Project – November 2010 Update
The Jordan Valley Permaculture Project (aka ‘Greening the Desert – the Sequel’) in Al Jawaseri in the Dead Sea Valley…
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Piped Swale Crossings
Permaculture is a connecting system between disciplines and elements in a matrix of design, and swales are a mainframe element.…
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World Without Water
As the 21st Century begins as the Age of Drought, we look at three places–Florida, China, and Nevada–where dryness has…
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Reducing Urban Water Use
by Lester R. Brown, Earth Policy Institute U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt once noted that "civilized people ought to know how…
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How to Handle Biomass in Dry Tropical Systems: Mulch Pit Gardens
The dry tropics cover a significant land area of the planet, particularly around the regions of the tropics of Cancer…
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Strawberry Fields Eco Lodge, Ethiopia: Black Water Filtration System
Black water is the term applied to domestic waste water which carries solid organic waste materials and has a high…
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Designing Swales in Central Victoria
by Samantha Downing One of the major assets of our property in Central Victoria is a storm water culvert which…
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How to Build a Permaculture Vegetable Garden
– Tiny Eglington’s method, educator Geoff Lawton This is a photo report of a vegetable garden built for Ann Foster…
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Strawberry Fields Update – Flood Protection and Water Control in Ethiopia
One of the biggest challenges of doing Permaculture in a semi-arid place like Konso is the drought-flood hydrology besets in…
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Hope in a Changing Climate – the Loess Plateau Revisited, and Other Examples of Earth Healing
Remember the A Call to Large Scale Earth Healing and Lessons from the Loess Plateau post? It was an uber-encouraging…
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Civilization’s Foundation Eroding
by Lester R. Brown, Earth Policy Institute Photo © Craig Mackintosh The thin layer of topsoil that covers the planet’s…
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Permaculture Creek Repair
Story by Nick Huggins. Video by Patrick Blampied. For the past month I have been in and out of airports…
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