Kiva – What is Kiva? (Team Permaculture)

 
Team Permaculture We Let You Loan to Low Income Entrepreneurs
Kiva’s mission is to connect people through lending for the sake of alleviating poverty.
Kiva is the world’s first person-to-person micro-lending website, empowering individuals to lend to unique entrepreneurs around the globe.
The people you see on Kiva’s site are real individuals. When you browse entrepreneurs’ profiles on [...]

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Dimensioning of a valley (swale)

Requirement of dimensioning
The goal is that the valley never overflows. If that arrived, the overflow would early have made dig a torrent through the slope in an erosive catastrophe. Thus in the hypothetical case of worst precipitation than the ground would be likely to receive, the valley must be just filled to the brim.
Index: you [...]

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How to Dig Swales

Swales are an excellent technique in rainwater harvesting. Theycapture surface runoff and send it deep into the aquifer, both nourishing trees and reducing erosion. The berms beneath them make great fertile planting beds. And best of all, swales can be dug by hand and cost you nothing.
Instructions

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‘Abdallah House’ – Redesigning a Home

 
 
 
 
Making the most of the situation…
Principle 12: Creatively use and respond to change
Our society wastes so much. I’d written about an opportunity that I’d missed out on in December last year when a house was being demolished and I couldn’t get access to the site. Houses get demolished quite regularly in our society and most [...]

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Financial Permaculture : a resource for gathering information and conversations about financial permaculture

Economics on our terms:
Creating a Financial Permaculture is a design endevor that ask us to circulate money locally, and find innovative ways to promote trading and exchange systems that align with ecological patterns and boundaries.
Finanacial Permaculture ask us to remove our time, attention and money from investments in global corporations that destroy local culture and [...]

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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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Using and reusing in the garden

One of the things about permaculture that really resonates for me is the drive to use everything, to have no waste, to get a yield from as much as you can.
Something about looking at what WAS clutter in my eyes in a new way that makes it a resource, it seems magical. I am one [...]

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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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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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Solar cooker plans

There is a wide variety of solar cooker designs, many of them very simple to build from inexpensive, easy-to-obtain materials. Start by choosing a cooker design type based on your requirements. The table below lists strengths and weaknesses of the most common types, and shows some popular cookers of each type. Below each table is [...]

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