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Carbon Farming Course 2012

Ethan Roland
Check out the website for more info! www.carbonfarimingcourse.com
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Lay of the Land

William Kearns
Pic 1 - Beginnings of an "oasis" in the prairie:   Pic 2 - Apricot trees form the majority of a small orchard:   Pic 3 - Winter Wonderland, a result of freezing fog in the depths of winter:  
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Gaia University Northeast

Gaia University Northeast
Gaia University Northeast empowers you to change the world. We support eco-social entrepreneurs, farmers, and actionists to carry out real-world projects with significant local and global impact - while receiving accredited Bachelors and Masters degrees.
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A New Permatecture Toolbox! (From Nikos A. Salingaros)

Øyvind Holmstad
The goal of permaculture is to reunite man with nature and man with man through design systems, and here patterns play an important role. Still, patterns can only reunite humans with natural systems and with each other, not with the geometry of the universe. Surely in what I like to call permatec...
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Columbia Basin Permaculture

Columbia Basin Permaculture
Columbia Basin Permaculture is exploring Permaculture designs and techniques uniquely applicable to cold winter/hot summer dryland environments (Koppen-Geiger BSK).
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Terra Perma

Terra Perma
Terra Perma is a group of ecological garden designers dedicated to demonstrating the transformation of urban green spaces into beautiful, productive environments that serve and give back to people, our community and the Earth. We believe in the ethical use of planetary resources, and we envisi...
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Center for Holistic Ecology

Center for Holistic Ecology
The Center for Holistic Ecology (CHE) developed to integrate all life systems: self, social and ecological. Our activities and programs counter global climate change and the energy crisis by supporting the vibrancy and health of our regional economy, communities, and environment. To accomplish th...
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Mais que palha

Mais que palha
Straw bale building initiative trying to legalise straw bale building in Portugal
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Projeto Reflostar

Projeto Reflostar
A reforestation project starting in our valley to help fight the eucyliptus plantations
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Ashland Cohousing Community

Ashland Cohousing Community
This 13 home urban cohousing community includes passive solar homes, a community garden and ongoing permaculture improvements.
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Farmer Trees

Chief Phillip 'Cloudpiler' Landis
Unlike many permaculture projects that must project stacking into the future, we are starting with mature trees.  Circular or fishscale berms act as traps for water and humus.  We trim up the trees an strategically thin the branches to let in the light.

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Restful Trails Food Forest Gardens

Restful Trails Food Forest Gardens
Restful Trails Food Forest Gardens is a rural permaculture project whereby forest gardens are being created on a 5 acre property by a private owner. The owner has been creating food forest gardens on this property for nearly 40 years but lost much of the forests and gardens to a housefire in 20...
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Mobile Home Recycle

Chief Phillip 'Cloudpiler' Landis

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Solar Springs Permaculture

Solar Springs Permaculture
Solar Springs Permaculture is a research farm conducting work in land restoration, food production, and appropriate technologies; and a business providing consulting and educational services to the global community and farm goods and nursery stock to its neighbors. It is also the home of Solar Sp...
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Hånddrevet Alfa vaskemaskin

Øyvind Holmstad
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De 25 bygningsbiologiske prinsipper

Øyvind Holmstad
1.   Byggeplass uten naturlige eller menneskeskapte forstyrrelser   2.   Boliger plassert borte fra forurensende kilder og støy   3.   Bomiljø med lav byggtetthet og tilstrekkelige grøntarealer   4.   Personliggjorte, naturlige, menneske- og familieorienterte boliger og boligo...
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My allotment design

Pietro Zucchetti
Before!             Forest garden hedge planted! Setting up the polytunnel after the bottle hedge was done!!   Allotment with reused wood (from the local community college) raised beds as for 1st layout Clover lawn coming up!! Polytunnel rain water harvest,I co...
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