Graphics on basic permaculture: a systemic approach to sustainability

“…No matter how many times I said it to myself (“Permaculture has nothing to do with politics”), I still couldn’t agree with it. Permaculture IS political. I remember Bill telling the story about being on many radio interviews and then one interviewer said (roughly quoted),
“You know Bill, this permaculture stuff is really, uh, quite, um, [...]

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Solar Power Zapped From Space By Lasers

 
 
 
Japan is aiming to collect solar power in space and zap it down to Earth using laser beams or microwaves.
The island nation’s government has picked companies and researchers to turn the multi-billion pound dream of unlimited clean energy into reality by 2030.
Japan has few energy resources of its own and is heavily reliant on oil [...]

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Tips for a Permaculture Garden

If you are planning to be food sustainable a permaculture garden is an excellent idea. A permaculture garden can be built in a rural or urban area. Just select the space you want your garden. In permaculture practices the place chosen to built the garden is often referred as “site” and the process is called “site [...]

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Matt Dunwell introduces the subject of broadscale permaculture and describes why it is different from doing it in your back garden

BROADSCALE PERMACULTURE AT RAGMAN’S LANE FARM
By Matt Dunwell
Article first published in ‘Permaculture Magazine’ No. 10.
In 1990, when Matt Dunwell and Jan Davies took over Ragman’s Lane Farm in Gloucestershire, England, the Valuer commented that its 50 acres of grassland could only provide half of one salary.
The following spring, Bill Mollison gave a permaculture design course [...]

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GARBAGE WARRIOR – Earthships and Mike Reynolds

 
Michael Reynolds is an architect based in New Mexico and a proponent of “radically sustainable living.” He has been a forceful and controversial critic of the profession of architecture for its failure to deal with the amount of waste that building design creates.
Watch his video here
 

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THE GEOGRAPHICAL AND TOPOGRAPHICAL BASIS OF KEYLINE

THE GEOGRAPHICAL AND TOPOGRAPHICAL BASIS OF KEYLINE
by the late Prof J. MacDonald-Holmes, Dean of the Faculty Geography, University of Sydney.
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Green home building

Welcome to greenhomebuilding.com where you can find a wide range of information about sustainable architecture and natural building.
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Journal from permaculture design course

Ryan Harb journaled his experience on a short design course.
Interesting to see how he progressed.
Journal

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Permaculture Projects – The practical approach – Outback, Urban, Cold Climate

What is Permaculture? Introduction
Our Permaculture Projects,
the practical approach A Permaculture garden in the dusty Outback
A City Permaculture Garden in the Tropics
Permaculture in a cold climate
The theory Permaculture – the nine key principles
The practical approach

A Permaculture garden in the dusty Outback
A City Permaculture Garden in the Tropics
Permaculture in a cold climate

Also with other examples like [...]

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What is ‘Zone Zero’?

Zone planning in permaculture design means placing elements according to how often we need to visit them. Areas that need to be visited every day (e.g. the glasshouse, chicken pen, herb garden) are located nearby, while places visited less frequently (grazing area, orchard, woodlot) are located further away.
In Bill Mollison’s book ‘Introduction to Permaculture’, zone [...]

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