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Why Permaculture?
12 Ways To Incorporate Permaculture Into Your Daily Life
Permaculture is often defined by its twelve principles. Being a compound of permanent-agriculture, it makes sense that these principles are…
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Why Permaculture?
Food, Water, Shelter, Community, & Recreation
As the health crisis grows, the virus case numbers increasing daily, the future of society as we have grown to…
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Why Permaculture?
Yet Another Explanation of What Exactly Permaculture Is
I’ve been practicing permaculture for several years now, but where I live, permaculture is not commonplace. I more often than…
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SAVING THE PLANET
I have often found myself wincing as I hear people talking about saving the planet. It’s felt wrong! I can hear…
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Design
Multi-Functional Living: Wood Heat
This year Emma and I are taking something we did last year and making it more functional: We are heating…
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EXCERPT FROM “DE-GROWTH IN THE SUBURBS, A RADICAL URBAN IMAGINARY. “ PART 3
We started publishing 2 weeks ago this series of an excerpt from Samuel Alexander and Brendan Gleeson’s new book, “Degrowth in…
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The Reflective Art of Garbage Collection and Deflection
The way we handle trash nowadays allows us to put it on the curb or in the dumpster and forget…
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The Most Ethical Renewable Energy Systems
The main thing in renewable energy systems is the embodied energy: the energy over the lifetime of the product versus…
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Permaculture Resiliency Project with the San Bushmen in the Kalahari Vergenoeg, Namibia
In a land of contrast, mystery and years of imperialism, a small village of over 300 people on the edge…
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City Kids Move to the Country – Part VII
My property has been behaving itself since my last City Kids update. Without the tropical downpours and flooding Queensland suffered…
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Food Forests, Part 1: Ronald Reagan’s Day Off
Save Ferris! Ferris Bueller’s Day Off was a 1986 movie about a teenager, his girlfriend and best mate — all…
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