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Vetiver Grass – A Hedge Against Erosion
PIJ #54, March – May 1995 Soil erosion is perhaps the world’s most chronic environmental problem that is literally costing…
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Weeds or Wild Nature?
Reprinted with permission from the “Permaculture International Journal” (PIJ) (No. 61, Dec-Feb 1997). The world’s striving for racial tolerance doesn’t…
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Hawaiian Homeland Security
Homeland Security. To the native people of the Hawaiian Islands, it’s more than just a buzzword thrown around by the…
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Volunteer Permaculturist Required for Ugandan AIDS Clinic
With an acre of land to work with, could you develop a sustainable demonstration garden for a health centre to…
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The Food Crisis: “A Perfect Storm” – and How to Turn the Tide
A recently released study, the largest of its kind, examines the root causes of, and solutions for, a food crisis…
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What is ‘Zone Zero’?
llustration by Cecilia Macaulay Zone planning in permaculture design means placing elements according to how often we need to visit…
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The Flaw of Western Economies
by Marcin Gerwin, Sopot, Poland. Marcin graduated with a Ph.D. in political studies, from the University of Gdansk, Poland, with…
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Learning from the Past
by Lester R. Brown, Earth Policy Institute, Washington D.C., U.S.A. Our twenty-first century global civilization is not the first to…
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Course Schedule for 2009 Finalised
Study at Zaytuna Farm, NSW We’ve just posted all the courses for 2009 – and we’ve added several new courses…
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Transforming Landscapes, While Transforming Ourselves – Our Story in Jordan
This is a story of how permaculture transformed the lives of two young Canadians… At the beginning of November 2006,…
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Letters from Vietnam – The Road to Na Sai
We catch a rare glimpse of an ancient and beautiful culture – the Black Thai people – and applaud the…
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Rising Seas and Powerful Storms Threaten Global Security
by Janet Larsen, Earth Policy Institute Standing before the United Nations General Assembly in October 1987, Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, President…
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