Urban Projects
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Jack of All Trades, Master of None
I am always observing and making decisions on the run, doing a sequence of brief tasks and changing mid stream…
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Permaculture for Pastoralists in the Jordan Valley – Part II
Note: If you haven’t already, you can read Part I here. A Dead Sea Valley family home with their typical…
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Permaculture Site Establishment: Phases of Abundance
An abundance of jackfruit at Project Bonafide in Nicaragua Five years ago I had the opportunity to join a land-based…
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An Orchard Grows in Boston
Rebuilding the commons in an economically-divided, violence-scarred neighborhood by Orion Kriegman Egleston Square is a rapidly gentrifying neighborhood, straddling the…
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Permaculture for Pastoralists in the Jordan Valley – Part I
Awassi sheep ready to go to market (and random standards inspector) I’ve been to the Greening the Desert “Sequel” site…
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A Bit About Bananas
In his fantastic book Complete Book Of Fruit Growing in Australia Louis Glowinski wrote that "the banana is the most…
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Guerilla Gardening in Rural Panama
A gnome (the author) in the Communal Garden Make no mistake, the war is on. The commodity is food, the…
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Natural Swimming Pools for Passive Holistic Education, Increased Diversity, and Health
Where I grew up, I had two swimming choices. The first was in various rivers and ‘swimming holes’ (deeper parts…
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A Canadian Rocket Stove Powered Greenhouse
How does Permaculture function in cold climate latitudes? Recently Geoff Lawton and his crew visited engineers Rob and Michelle Avis…
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Help Marda Permaculture Farm Fund its Dream to Construct a Teaching Center! (West Bank)
The Marda Permaculture Farm is a working farm and demonstration site for permaculture principles, techniques and strategies in Palestine. Based…
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Building Community Through Permaculture – an Interview with Mark Lakeman
Marcin Gerwin: You used to work as an architect for a large company. How did you come to be involved…
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A Report on the April 2014 PDC at the “Greening the Desert Sequel” Site (Jordan)
I am in Jordan, where the monthly average wage is 300 Jordanian dinar. To put that into perspective, a phone…
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