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Brad Lancaster: “Urban Water Harvesting Systems” (IPC Presentation – Video)
Brad Lancaster presents at the IPC10, Amman, Jordan, Sept. 2011 Photographs © PRI Brad of harvestingrainwater.com has well-honed presentation skills…
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Roman- and Byzantine-era Cisterns of the Past Reviving Life in the Present
Editor’s Note: Brad Lancaster has established himself as one of the world’s leading permaculture dryland authorities. Brad will be participating…
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From Grass to Habitat Garden – Our Front Yard 2005-2011
A detailed account of the transition from a sparse and chemical dependent landscape to an ecologically diverse and resource efficient…
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Al Baydha Water System, Part 1: Flash Floods
by Neal Spackman The most common way to die in the desert is dehydration. The second most common is drowning.…
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City Kids Move to the Country – Part V
Pit-falls, projects and laughs from our permaculture journey – Part 5 “What’s that smell?” asks Chris. “I don’t know. It’s…
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First Steps to a Food Forest in the Southern Tablelands
by Dominick ter Huurne & Inke Falkner “We acknowledge and pay respects to the Dhurga people of the Yuin Nation, the…
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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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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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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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