Soil Erosion
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Earthworks & Earth Resources
The Earthen Spillway Project
The Picture To put things into perspective, our dam is relatively shallow, peaking out at maybe two meters. It’s fed…
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Soil Rehabilitation
To predict droughts, don’t look at the skies. Look in the soil… from space
Another summer, another drought. Sydney’s water storages are running on empty, and desalinisation plants are being dusted off. Elsewhere, shrunken…
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Videos
Permaculture’s Origin Story: Mollison’s PDM. Oh, and Nature
The last video of the 4-part Permaculture Masterclass series is now complete with this 40-minute video titled “Permaculture’s Origin Story: Mollison…
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General
Fixes for Nutrient Deficient Soil
Basic understanding of plant health comes from the soil they grow in. Their nutrition is vital to their health and…
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The Woes of Industrial Agriculture
Our relationship with the earth changed fundamentally when we began practicing agriculture some ten thousand years ago. The transition from…
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John Todd Living Machines Lecture
I’m so blown away by the work of John Todd. He works on a huge scale cleaning horrendous toxins out…
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Permaculture Design on the Edge – Patterns of Coastal Settlement and Regeneration
by Jason Gerhardt The author scopes out an oyster reef in Pamlico Sound, NC Photo Credit: Jason Gerhardt Being a…
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Permaculture at The Farm
Former stockbroker Brian Bankston now calls himself the “Keyline Cowboy” after a carbon farming course at The Farm’s Ecovillage Training…
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A Civilisational Tipping Point
by Lester R. Brown, Earth Policy Institute In recent years there has been a growing concern over thresholds or tipping…
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Six Ways to Save the Planet with Mushrooms – Paul Stamets
No, we’re not talking about your average portobello mushroom here, found on pizzas the world over. The topic of this…
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The Oil Intensity of Food
by Lester R. Brown, Earth Policy Institute Today we are an oil-based civilization, one that is totally dependent on a…
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Update on Shell Lawsuit
I know many of you will be wondering what happened in the Wiwa vs. Shell case I wrote about recently,…
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