Water Conservation
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City Kids Move to the Country – Part IV
Editor’s Note: This article was written in mid-December, when Queensland’s rains were nothing like that witnessed of late, and which…
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From Danger to Diversity – Mr Phuoc’s Farm
Jonathon (Joni) is writing from his volunteer Permaculture position with the Social Policy Ecology Research Institute (SPERI), based at their…
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Compost Power Hot Shower Report, Ethiopia
We recently submitted a short report on our hot-fast-composting system, which gave some detail on the theory and practice of…
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Gabions: Water Soaks in the Desert
Gabions are one of the crucial feature elements of dry land landscape water harvesting design. A gabion is a leaky…
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Jordan Valley Permaculture Project – November 2010 Update
The Jordan Valley Permaculture Project (aka ‘Greening the Desert – the Sequel’) in Al Jawaseri in the Dead Sea Valley…
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Piped Swale Crossings
Permaculture is a connecting system between disciplines and elements in a matrix of design, and swales are a mainframe element.…
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World Without Water
As the 21st Century begins as the Age of Drought, we look at three places–Florida, China, and Nevada–where dryness has…
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Reducing Urban Water Use
by Lester R. Brown, Earth Policy Institute U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt once noted that "civilized people ought to know how…
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Designing Swales in Central Victoria
by Samantha Downing One of the major assets of our property in Central Victoria is a storm water culvert which…
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Strawberry Fields Update – Flood Protection and Water Control in Ethiopia
One of the biggest challenges of doing Permaculture in a semi-arid place like Konso is the drought-flood hydrology besets in…
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Hope in a Changing Climate – the Loess Plateau Revisited, and Other Examples of Earth Healing
Remember the A Call to Large Scale Earth Healing and Lessons from the Loess Plateau post? It was an uber-encouraging…
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Permaculture Creek Repair
Story by Nick Huggins. Video by Patrick Blampied. For the past month I have been in and out of airports…
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