Are the spiralling food and energy prices affecting your household budget?  Have you ever wondered what you can do to mitigate against Climate Change and the onset of Peak Oil? Come along to a Permaculture Design Course (PDC) in order to understand how these key challenges are affecting Human...

Its taken some time and effort but in the end its all worth it.   The greenhouse is the first stage in our attempts towards sustainability.  We hope to get some goats this summer, and experiment with intensive grazing methods, (Allen Savory) to start developing small pasture land around the pro...

Now we've offered the course for four times, and there's three more coming this year (2014) It's been a joy to develope the courses together with Joel - and I really think teaching is the best way to learn. I'm especially inspired teaching systems thinking and permaculture principles through conc...

For the last two years, I've developed my facilitation skills. Now I'm working as a facilitator, participatory process designer,  organizational consultant and life coach in an international collaborative. Our purpose is to help people to work together. I was trained in Holacracy(R) in October 20...

As community of seven young adults we are developig our household towards resiliency and sustainability.

I presented Al Gore's Climate Reality PowerPoint Presentation in Cuba at the Permaculture Convergence in December 2013. The mainly Cuban audience had never seen the presentation previously, nor had they seen Chairman Gore's Inconvenient Truth movie and requested that Chairman Al Gore and the C...

Nawaya has been busy busy in the past few months, from setting up its farmer's apprenticeship program to setting up the new Slow Food Cairo Convivium, to documenting uses of dates in its documentation project. So what does all this entail. Well Nawaya is a social enterprise that seeks to create s...

Gradina din Curtea Scolii is the main project of Bucharest Transition Towns local Initiative.

Permaculture household project on 2.000 sqm in Moara Vlasiei Romania

As reports come in about record cold weather in the USA and Australia just experienced record heat in our state of Queensland, where apparently native bees have died and bats and flying foxes have fallen from the sky due to heatstroke, we at the Permaculture Research Institute Sunshine Coast ar...

See full article here: http://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2013/apr/23/farming-methods-agroecology-permaculture

Permaculture Ste Anne de Bellevue Meeting no 5, January 7th, 2014 The New Coop du Grande Orme Attendance: 5   MINUTES We mainly discussed the details of the first special event we are holding: a co-presentation with the Coop of a very special guest speaker: Philippe Derruder "le grand spéci...

Permaculture Ste Anne de Bellevue Minutes: Meeting no. 4, Tuesday, December 3rd, 2013 The New Coop du Grand OrmeAttendance: 5 (With Town Councillor Ryan Young appearing for a fly-by Q&A on Ste Anne de Bellevue's Sustainable Development Plan) Discussion:- The humble beginning of a Permacult...

 Ste Anne de Bellevue Permaculture 3rd Meeting, Nov 5th, 2013, 1pm, private home in Ste Anne de Bellevue. Attendance: 3Although no one officially took minutes this time, a few things that stood out for me were the challenges of suburban agriculture (the ethos of materialism, isolation...

Of all the striking aspects of the subtropical regions of Australia’s east coast, the landforms, the climate, the exotic fauna… few offer as immediately impressive a sight as a fully mature Bunya pine. Reaching a recorded height of 45m, with trunks like a sauropod’s leg and sporting cones bigger ...

The first video of our chicken story ... more news soon!   

Have a look on the facebook-page of community garden De Groene Hemel for the look and feel of our project. https://www.facebook.com/pages/De-groene-hemel-Waalre/1426936710868063

This was originally a response to a request for terrace building info In general for construction, earthworks and other technical information require detailed calculations, specs, design parameters, etc.  I refer to FAO, NRCS, engineering, and construction references.  you might also con...