Village Development
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Respecting Ourselves, Part II: Needs Not Met
Editor’s Note: This is Part II of a series. If you haven’t already, please read Part I first. In the…
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Army of Permaculturists – Ready for Battle
These are the people of Molokai, a 300 square mile island in the center of the main chain of the…
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Organized Barter and Redistribution of Surplus
In chapter 14 of the Permaculture Designers’ Manual, Bill Mollison gives an interesting example of a restaurant (Zoo Zoo’s) that…
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Respecting Ourselves – Part I
For a year, I worked at a wilderness therapy program, interrupting teenagers who were in the process of sabotaging their…
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Earthen Building
Editor’s Note: Sasha Rabin is someone with enviable skills in natural building. She has been building, and teaching others to…
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Book Review: Unplanning – Livable Cities and Political Choices
In this book Charles Siegel explains the history of city planning, where we are now, and most importantly, where we…
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A Beginner’s Guide to Working in Sustainable Aid and Overseas Development
We can change the world. We’ve all felt it, that overwhelming urge which every permie gets when they graduate from…
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Home Rule
Here’s the remarkable, hidden truth about our housing crisis. by George Monbiot: journalist, author, academic and environmental and political activist,…
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Concentric Rings of Change – the Power of a Single African Permaculture Design Course
by Warren Brush of True Nature Design and Quail Springs Permaculture Over 700 children, orphaned by the scourge of HIV…
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Cold-Hearted
The level of excess winter deaths in the UK is higher than Siberia’s. This is why. by George Monbiot: journalist,…
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