‘In Transition’: now available to view, in full, free, online!

‘In Transition’ is now available to view in full on YouTube (apart from Part 3, following soon)… don’t forget that you can also buy copies of the DVD which feature the film itself as well as hours of wonderful Transitioney extras; find out more here.  Anyway, sit back and enjoy.  We love it.
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How to Repair the World

We’re pleased to announce that we’re partnering with the makers of the video above,WeForest, to help establish self-replicating permaculture reforestation demonstration sites in accordance with our Permaculture Master Plan, in several worldwide locations – starting in Zambia in the first instance. Our Geoff Lawton has just agreed to be on their advisory [...]

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Copenhagen climate change summit poised to open

Delegates from 192 countries are gathering in the Danish capital Copenhagen for the opening of the long-awaited UN summit on climate change.
The conference has been described by some scientists as the most important the world has ever seen.
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[BBC]

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Greening the Desert II Video – Greening the Middle East

We in the North often have a highly skewed understanding of the word ‘poverty’. Mention it, and the mind is immediately filled with images of emaciated children, queues at aid stations, and the like. Somehow our own acute poverty – in community, social cohesion and ethical purpose – usually goes unrecognised. We live in a [...]

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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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Talks Michael Pollan gives a plant’s-eye view

What if human consciousness isn’t the end-all and be-all of Darwinism? What if we are all just pawns in corn’s clever strategy game to rule the Earth? Author Michael Pollan asks us to see the world from a plant’s-eye view.
[TED]

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Redesign the city: a look at urban permaculture

If we speak of a healthy community, we cannot be speaking of a community that is merely human. We are talking about a neighborhood of humans in a place, plus the place itself: its soil, its water, its air, and all the families and tribes of the nonhuman creatures that belong to it. What is more, [...]

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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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Forest Interactions and Climate

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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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