Water Harvesting
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Swales Filled by Melting Ice and Snow (Texas, USA)
We just harvested over 20,000 gallons of ice and snow melt into our swales. Last week we had about 4…
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Keyline Design as an Organizing Pattern for Permaculture Design, Part 2 (Sweden)
This is part 2 of a series of 5 articles looking at design considerations for our Cold Climate Permaculture site…
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America’s Forgotten Food Forest Suburb
Years ago, Permaculture founder, Bill Mollison made a TV series called Global Gardener. In a 10-minute segment of that series…
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Desert Food Forest and Organic Commercial Production in Three Years – Update on Wadi Rum Consultancy (Jordan)
Outside the fence On August 6, 2010 Craig Mackintosh posted on my initial consultancy for the site I’m reporting on…
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Keyline Design as an Organizing Pattern for Permaculture Design, Part 1 (Sweden)
Having spent the past few years on a busy international schedule Richard Perkins has purchased a farm in Sweden where…
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India’s Dangerous ‘Food Bubble’
Editor’s Note: As is often the case with the Earth Policy Institute (EPI), crucial solutions are largely missing from the…
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Wadi Mukheris and the Wonder of Gabions (Jordan)
The year 1999 was a busy one, with the potential of Y2K and “the end of world as we know…
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UNCCD Land for Life Award Winners for 2013 (India, Mexico, Africa): Practical, Doable, Magic
Educating small-holder farmers in India Every year the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) presents awards and supportive prize-money…
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Rough, Ready, But Very Real – a November 2013 Update on the Jordan Valley Permaculture Project (aka ‘Greening the Desert – the Sequel’ Site)
Project from above, featuring a garbage-accumulating fence edge Well, you would be hard pressed to find a tougher block of…
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Gangi Setty and the Green Tree Foundation Project (India)
The Green Tree Foundation is a small non-profit organization that promotes permaculture techniques to local farmers in the Antapur district…
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Dam Building Time Lapse (New Zealand)
by Jon Foote A short video of the development of the dam at the ReScape Resilience Education Centre, Dunedin, New…
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Three-Month Site Transformation of Degraded Land (Bangalore, India)
It all began with my visit to Australia last September and visiting Crystal Waters eco-village and then streaming through many…
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