8-Story Antigravity Forest Facade Takes Root

When Patrick Blanc was a boy, he suspended plants from his bedroom wall and ran their roots into a fish tank. The greenery received nourishment from the diluted—ahem—fertilizer and purified the water in return. Forty-five years on, the French botanist’s gardens have grown massive in scale. One inside a Portuguese shopping mall is larger than [...]

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How to Use Garlic in Companion Planting

Garlic is a staple of companion planting. It produces a natural fungicide that benefits many plants in organic gardens and repels many pests.With a little planning, the organic garden will benefit immensely from garlic.
Things You Will Need

Garlic
Garden gloves
Garden hose
Garden Spade

Step 1
Plan your garden, herb and flower bed ahead of time because garlic should be planted [...]

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Preparing for wildfire – Permaculture Design

This post focuses on the factors that we believe helped save our place and includes aspects of our permaculture design intended to reduce the threat, as well as what we learned from our recent experience. Comments relate specifically to our location and personal observations, and may not apply under different conditions.
House design
Our house is mudbrick [...]

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Frogs of Australia – Definitive guide to the frogs of Australia

Regional guides
Discover the regions of your state then find the frogs of a particular region.
Frogs of Australia

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THE RIGHT LIVELIHOOD AWARDS 1981 Acceptance Speech by Bill Mollison December 9th, 1981

The Right Livelihood Award honours and supports those offering practical and exemplary answers to the most urgent challenges facing us today.
In many countries, the Award is often referred to as the ‘Alternative Nobel Prize’.
“I grew up in a small village in Tasmania. I was born in 1928, but my village might have existed in the [...]

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Natural Resources Conservation Advance Plant Search

The PLANTS Database provides standardized information about the vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and lichens of the U.S. and its territories. It includes names, plant symbols, checklists, distributional data, species abstracts, characteristics, images, crop information, automated tools, onward Web links, and references. This information primarily promotes land conservation in the United States and its territories, [...]

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Google “Wonder Wheel” Permaculture Search

Trying to research on Google Permaculture material? Why not see the results in a Google “Wonder Wheel”?
The “Wonder Wheel” is like a mindmap result search view.
Just click on the key word you are interested to see related search results shown on the right hand side of the screen.
You can filter the results by selecting the right option [...]

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How to entice frogs into your backyard …

By wildlife writer Justin Harrison
First published in the Permaculture International Journal Issue No. 60 Sept ~ Nov 1996
On a recent trek through Kakadu National Park in Northern Territory, Australia, many wonders caught my imagination. One group of animals, however, astounded me with its diversity and sheer numbers. Frogs! Millions of them in one of the [...]

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The basic principle of a trombe

Water falling through a Venturi system sucks in air and compresses the air-bubbles, which are extracted at the lowest point of the system. Water pressure will drive the water up again to the height of the working head.
Referring to the figure at the right, water enters the system from the reservoir through the flume, D. [...]

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Bonnie Bassler on how bacteria “talk”

Bonnie Bassler discovered that bacteria “talk” to each other, using a chemical language that lets them coordinate defense and mount attacks. The find has stunning implications for medicine, industry — and our understanding of ourselves.

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