Water Harvesting
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Letters from Sri Lanka – Sarvodaya Builds Sri Lanka’s First Eco-Village
Part VII of a series – If you haven’t already, please read Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV,…
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Micro-Hydro for a Slovak Village
A turbine with a 21 kWh generating capacity is the centrepiece of a little village in the mountainous north central…
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Letters from Sri Lanka – Sarvodaya’s Home Gardens
Part VI of a series – If you haven’t already, please read Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV…
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Rosella Waters Earthworks, Phase I, Part B
The Mushroom Dam overlooking the beach area It’s taken a while to find the time to sit down and report…
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Anupam Mishra: The Ancient Ingenuity of Water Harvesting (Video)
India is a country where water shortages have become so acute that the failed monsoon rains in 2009 had people…
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Yeomans’ Pioneer Demonstration Site to Be Turned into Housing Estate
One of the most influential people in sustainable agricultural systems development is the late P.A. Yeomans. Yeomans went against the…
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Greening the Desert II – Final
The Greening the Desert II video I shared with you recently was edited in Jordan. Now that I’m back at…
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Tigger Does Mullumbimby Community Gardens
Regular readers will have noted a couple of posts – here and here – covering the new and developing Mullumbimby…
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Letters from Melbourne – Cam and Jesse’s Urban Retreat
An urban hideaway managed by Cam, Jesse and Yarrow Wilson (Yarrow was taking a break for this shot) All photographs…
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Dalpura Farm – Experiments in Permaculture Forestry
Photographs © Craig Mackintosh Inter-row Eucalyptus saligna (Sydney blue gum) & Casuarina cunninghamiana (river she oak) planted in 2000 I…
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Rethinking Water: A Permaculture Tour of the Inland Northwest
Ever since I’d first read of it, I felt I would never understand the state of my bioregion until I…
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Got Water?
A grassroots effort to increase, catch and store rainwater on Molokai Kanawai. Ka-na-wai literally means “belonging-to-the-waters”. Under traditional Hawaiian law…
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