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PERMAculture CHALLENGE 2012 - The ART of LIVING / Urban Permaculture Balcony Workshops

Łukasz Nowacki
Imagine that you don't own any land to create a garden, you just live in a flat or appartment and everything you've got is a window sill and a small balcony. That's the place where all things begin - small scale urban permaculture. Now imagine a micro-forest garden, a guild of specially selected ...

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Caixa acústica em bambu para IPhone

Suzana Maringoni
A partir do modelo construído pelo engenheiro Anatoliy Omelchenko, fizemos em Yvy Porã este modelo, usando bambusa vulgaris para apeça e um pedaço de dendrocálamus para  a base. No blog da Casa da Montanha está diopsonível o passo a passo. Tomara que muitas pessoas façam o seu!
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Introduction to Permaculture Workshop in Central Florida

Tia Silvasy
Join us for a one-day introduction to permaculture workshop.  This will be held on our Econ Farm in East Orlando. The morning session will cover ethics, principals, site survey, and site design.  In the afternoon we will get our hands dirty and put permaculture into practice with a few simple p...

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Creating a garden of 500 square meters in Ayent from 2005 to 2007

Hubert de Kalbermatten
The garden is steep, full of potato soil and water. We prepare mounds of cultures with all kinds of plants and have used it for three years.

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design of a courtyard in 2010

Hubert de Kalbermatten
The list of plants and other needs: Succulent plants Berries Germinated seeds Perennial vegetables Creepers Shrubs and some trees with small sizes composts A small greenhouse stuck to the front Water points   The project is being negotiated

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Finger Lakes Permaculture Institute offers its 10th PDC Course.

Michael Burns
July 27th through August 12, 2012 Learn the permaculture design process during 15 engaging days in an off-grid learning community. Since 2005, we have been training people of all backgrounds, ages, experience and skill levels to design using natural patterns based on ecological principles. Stu...

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S'hortet d'Alconasser

S'hortet d'Alconasser
Northwest coast of Mallorca, about 7,000 square metres of terraced land and rock outcrop, neglected olive and carob trees and invading aleppo pine.
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Need help finding our new home...

Valeria Andrews
Need help finding our new home... Please name the top 3 Permaculture communities in Oz. Thank you!  -V
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Permaculture Design Course for Cities Towns and Villages: 6-19 May 2012

Shao-Lyn Low
  FACILITATED BY: Steve Cran (Australia)Chakra Widia (Indonesia)Sabina Arokiam (Malaysia)Juergen Soecknick (Austria) --------------------------------------------------------- COURSE CONTENT What is permaculture? How permaculture design works and how to apply it to different properties and...

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Eats, Shoots & Roots

Eats, Shoots & Roots
Eats, Shoots & Roots is a social enterprise that believes in the power of food as a binding force between people. Our mission is to grow communities through growing food; we do this through educational programmes and through establishing food gardens where people actually live.
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superadobe and cordwood workshops - March 2012

João Gonçalves
a low cost solution to create a shelter for hot and cold climate the house system includes passive heating and passive cooling plus superadobe thermal mass. more news will be posted soon about the proccess. some pics of the wall building work http://superadobeportugal.blogspot.pt/2012/03/ofic...
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Water piped from the mountains to the hidro turbine - 1st of April

João Gonçalves
http://permaculturaportugal.ning.com/events/demonstra-o-de-turbina-mini-h-drica-em-ch-o-sobral mini hidro turbine demonstration workshop on the 1st of April - Sunday afternoon, Dirk Van der Auwera e Tom Mertens are going to explain how the system works in Chão Sobral. the water for irrigati...

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Looking for documentation, advices... and help.

Marie-France Lefebvre
The house is builded on 200 square meters (the foundation are finalised already). Mid April 2012 we will arrive in Senegal to continue with the house building. The first step to work on is the Permaculture system. Is there any one who wish to take part of this project? With kindest regards, ...
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Let's Talk About the Commons!

Øyvind Holmstad
Talking about the commons is a critical first step. We’re so indoctrinated in an individualist focused approach to stuff and private property that we need to be reminded—like my college class mentioned above—that there’s much more that we share and, that for a wide range of things, sharing is bet...
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Permaculture Musical Cabaret Roadshow is coming together!

Charlie Jones
Here's a preview of the latest song in the Permaculture Musical Cabaret recorded in my back yard the other day. (If you watch the last video 'Small and Slow Song', you'll notice that my yard has... changed! ooooh!) In the process of writing more songs and securing funding to produce a decent rec...
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Permacultura Portugal

Silvia Floresta
O PDC da Quinta dos 7 Nomes, reconhecido internacionalmente, tem duração de 72 horas (14 dias) e é regido pelos 14 capítulos do “Permaculture: a Designers Manual “  de Bill Mollison e ocorre com aulas teóricas, práticas, vivências e atividades lúdicas, resultante num certificado de Design em Perm...
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Catching and directing water with a swale

Tom Kendall
I am sometimes unsure why the Sunshine Coast is called that, when we can get such massive rains. Last week we had around 350mm in 30 hours. This came following a heavy rain in the week before and continuing rain during that week, so the ground was absolutely saturated! The reason I am only postin...
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summer workshops a Malin's Hermitage Romania

philippe coupe
Spring and summer camp program “Malin’s hermitage” Romania 2012 1. Spring site ■ Tuesday 17 – Friday, April 20 ■ Children playgroundl maintenance ■ tepee’s canvas and liner ■ build a pond dam ■ dry toilet ■ to enhance rainwater harvesting pit. Participatory site volunteers. Provide accommoda...

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