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Week 6 – Eco-building in the Pyrenees, Natural Painting, Plastering and Designing

Carly Gillham
This week saw us continuing the ceiling insulation, sanding and painting the timber ceiling and flooring with  linseed oil, painting window frames with natural paint and applying cow dung plaster. Linseed Oiling The linseed oil is actually a mixture of linseed oil and turpentine mixed 2L:330m...
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Sustainable Living Summer Workshops ~ Book Now!

holy henderson
Want to experience hands-on living off the land? Join us at one of the 3 Summer Workshops on all aspects of Sustainability. After breakfast morning talks and Q&A on any subject connected with sustainable living (water, building, food, living/building, energy, money etc.) Afternoons are free t...

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Sustainable Living Hands-On Summer Workshop at Murat, France

holy henderson
Want to experience hands-on living off the land? Join us at one of the 3 Summer Workshops on all aspects of Sustainability. After breakfast morning talks and Q&A on any subject connected with sustainable living (water, building, food, living/building, energy, money etc.) Afternoons are free t...

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Mariposa

Mariposa
Mariposa, an innovative non-profit organisation based in Glasgow, inspires and supports people to help themselves across the globe by creating edible community gardens. Mariposa supports urban communities by providing and sharing knowledge of sustainable living designs while encouraging indiv...
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New Fruit Trees and Grapes

Denny Henke
We've added five new fruit trees to the orchard and four grapes with a trellis. That orchard now consists of five apple trees and four peach trees. Older trees have also been planted with comfrey as a second layer for chop and drop mulch.
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Local Food Grant at Well End Permacultu...

Local Food Grant at Well End Permaculture International
Convert a 10 year derelict field, surrounded on two sides by mature woodland, into an intensive crop production system through Permaculture techniques, in one season, growing 3-4 crops a year.
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Make-It-Do Farm

Make-It-Do Farm
A rural 5 acre homestead built from the ground-up with permaculture design principles intended to provide as much food as possible for one full time resident as well as surplus for sales at local farmers market and as a demonstration site.
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The Howard Higgins Thermophilic Compost...

The Howard Higgins Thermophilic Compost Site at Saint Marie, Port Au Prince, Haiti.
Having sort entrance into a 'dangerous country' Richard set up his environmental programme of converting waste from a refugee camp into fertilizer in 90 days, at the epicentre of the Haiti earthquake.
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projet en stand by "éco-centre du Tével...

projet en stand by "éco-centre du Tévelave"
projet : démonstration d'éco-construction, de techniques agricoles, pour la création de circuits courts, d'entraide, de soutient à projets, de création de liens social et intergénérationnel, d'éducation à l'environnement...
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The Secret of Water as a Basis for the New Earth - Healing the Water Cycle through Creating Water Retention Landscapes

Peter Koll
The Secret of Water as a Basis for the New EarthHealing the Water Cycle through the Creation of Water Retention Landscapes   http://www.verlag-meiga.org/sites/verlag-meiga.org/files/Water_engl.pdf Based on an unscripted speech by Bernd Müller, May 2011Translated from the German by Rabea Herzog...

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A call to action on interlinked global challenges through...Restoring Earth’s degraded land (Friday 15 July 2011)

Rhamis Kent
Each year the equivalent of three Switzerlands is lost due to desertification and drought in the ‘drylands’, the third of the Earth’s land surface that produces 44% of the world’s food. Millions there are being forced to moveto more productive land, and this is a major cause of conflict.  But thi...

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"So How Will We Feed The Bottom Billion?" With Lawrence Haddad (IDS) and Steve Wiggins (ODI) Tuesday 12th July 18.30 - Committee Room 2 with Heidi Alexander MP (House of Commons, London, England UK)

Rhamis Kent
The  UK  Department for International Development and the Foresight Government Office forScience have recently launched their  report The Future of Food and Farming  - Challenges and Choices for Global Sustainability. This warns us that world food production has started to level off  rather than ...

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Looking for advise in permaculture design?

Thiago Torres
I can help you with your Design. I will make it for free during 2013. Ask me if you want to discuss solutions for your property. I have lots of useful info here: EL EXPEJO hugs

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Próximas Actividades del Instituto Ná Lu´um

Tierra Martinez
Co-Creando la Regeneración de la Nave Tierra 2 y 3 de Julio Modulo: “Estrategias Urbanas y Comunitarias para l@s estudiantes del 1er Curso Certificado de Diseño de Permacultura.   15 de Julio Conferencia “Permacultura, Hacia un Futuro Vital” en Mar del Plata en conjunto con la gente de Luz...

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What David Saw - David Holmgrens visit to my place, Harborside Sydney

Cecilia Macaulay
Permaculture's David Holmgren comes to Sydney from my blog Balcony Garden Dreaming May 2011 Something big is coming to my kitchen Its David Holmren, the co-originator of Permaculture. And his bright beloved, Su Dennett, who is also my friend, and a delicious gardening-cook. T...
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Pizza Oven Building Workshop

Mariette Tuohey
We're looking forward to hot woodfired pizza straight from our own community oven. Saturday 2 July from 10am we're working together (come and join in!) to complete the final layer of mud for our pizza oven. We're looking for at least 10 people to work on this - 20 would be better. Many people hav...

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Estacion Permacultural Mar del Plata

Estacion Permacultural Mar del Plata
La Estación Permacultural es un espacio abierto a todas las personas que tengan inquietudes coincidentes con la Permacultura y quieran desarrollar actividades referidas a la misma
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NaveTierra MdQ

NaveTierra MdQ
La idea es construir en Mar del Plata, ciudad Argentina sobre la costa del Atlantico Sur, una casa totalmente autónoma utilizando en gran parte materiales que habitualmente se consideran basura y otros provistos por la misma naturaleza como lo es la tierra.
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