Capture rain water the easy way

 
Since doing this to my spare bin, I have been able to collect all the rain water I have ever needed for my garden.  Of course when it rains I just open the bin lid (whilst nature waters my garden), but when the sun is out I just open the tap at the bottom of [...]

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Carbon Disclosure Project

The Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) is an independent not-for-profit organisation which holds the largest database of corporate climate change information in the world. 
The data is obtained from responses to CDP’s annual Information Requests, issued on behalf of institutional investors, purchasing organisations and government bodies. Since its formation in 2000, CDP has become the gold standard for [...]

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Freecycle Network

 
The Freecycle Network™ is made up of 4,753 groups with 6,770,000 members across the globe. It’s a grassroots and entirely nonprofit movement of people who are giving (& getting) stuff for free in their own towns. It’s all about reuse and keeping good stuff out of landfills. Each local group is moderated by a local [...]

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Intergovernmental panel on climate change

The IPCC was established to provide the decision-makers and others interested in climate change with an objective source of information about climate change. The IPCC does not conduct any research nor does it monitor climate related data or parameters. Its role is to assess on a comprehensive, objective, open and transparent basis the latest scientific, [...]

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Breathing earth

 
This real-time simulation displays the CO2 emissions of every country in the world, as well as their birth and death rates. Please remember that this real time simulation is just that: a simulation. Although the CO2 emission, birth rate and death rate data used in Breathing Earth comes from reputable sources, data that measures things on such [...]

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Percival Alfred Yeoman

Percival Alfred Yeomans or “P.A” as he became known to all alike, changed Australian agriculture. It is doubtful that any man in this country’s history has had such a profound influence on the thinking and methods used by the Australian agricultural community.
He was from the country, but grew up in a town. His father, James [...]

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Handy-Dandy Chickens

 
An Alphabetical List of More than 60 Chicken Breeds with comparative information as well as other useful information for Chickens.
 
Chicken Chart
The Chook Shed
The Chicken Coop

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Plant Propagation – Illustrated guide to asexual reproduction

Plant Propagation

An Overview of Asexual Reproduction

Grafting and Budding
Layering
Plant Tissue and Organ Culture

Plant Propagation

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Dynamic Accumulators of Nutrients for Composting

 
Trying to compost yourself out of trouble?  If you know that you need to improve your nutrient quality of your soil, then use this guide to help you find what you need to compost to raise the nutrient value of your soil for nutrients that are depleted or missing.  If you don’t know what you [...]

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Zones and Sectors in the City

Re-defining Zones
The first step in adapting zones for a wider audience is to expand the notion of the site. The usual image of a permaculture site is that of private property owned by an individual, family or small group attempting some degree of self-sufficiency. The reality for most people is very different. The city-dweller ranges [...]

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