Permaculture
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Permaculture emphasizes high-yielding, small plot, and greenhouse agriculture and aquaculture ponds as well as forage agriculture, forest agriculture and the development of self-sufficiency, including on-site alternative energy sources.
Keywordspermanent agriculture, agricultural ethics, holistic management, perennial polyculture, aquaculture, agro-sylvo-pastoral farming, gardening, farm communities, crop diversity, crop rotation |
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Permaculture Association UK
The Permaculture Way: Practical Steps to Create a Self Sustaining World
VideosPermaculture & Peak Oil: An Interview with David Holmgren Urban Permaculture Introduction to Permaculture by Claude William Genest The Permaculture Concept with Bill Mollison
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Hi all I have just signed up here on behalf of our project Permaship. What a great place this is, where we can all connect, share our experience and reach out to each other. Tremendous amounts of credit and gratitude to the organizers, thankyou. This post is a invitation for those of you who may find yourself in the Balkans some time or for those of you already here. Please feel free to pay us a visit in the charming village of Shipka, Bulgaria. You will find a permaculture inspired project in working progress and a friendly welcome. Whether you are coming to look around, for a cup of tea, to share some ideas or to get involved drop us a line at the email listed below, we hope to see you someday.
For more info about Permaship ,who and what we are click below
http://sites.google.com/site/permaship1/Home
Happy Days
Paul from the Permaship Team
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I am on my path for a hard mission and trying to connect with people from the green-silent-r-evolution! .. Originally I am Palestinian stalking social justice. I came to the conclusion that this can not be reached without changing the culture of making economy! I believe "holistic-green-economy" will change our reality and IS the future of our earth and humanity. It is important to bring new culture of production and living in developing countries where new structures are being built. I hope "the west" will not teach the people his mistakes. My country, Palestine, is a "developing country". I am returning there to advocate new way of making economy and developing community. To be in touch with you will for sure support my hard mission, which is to develop one intelligent "cell" of green-production and soft-industry based on what people have in their environment. A network of these cells with centralized ICT and R&D will empower the whole involved communities. My Vision is to have a global such a network. The collective intelligence will be then gathered with such an sustainable economic growth will be the "aggregator" of the new age .. I am looking forward to be in touch with you and working with you.. best, Weal /Jafra |
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Hi,
From my work at sustainable urban water systems, including dry sanitation and separate urine collection I would be interested to know whether urine is an acceptable fertiliser in permaculture.
To collect urine separately in what we call Urine Diversion Dehydration Toilets (awful name, UDDTs) has the advantage to improve composting of faeces and to lead to clean urine, which, after some storage time, is hygienically safe and contains substantial amounts of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium. It may also contain endocrine disruptors, though, if they have been consumed in the first place.
To make sense this should be used as fertiliser without too much transport, thus right at the place of production in town. If that is possible, such dry sanitation systems could replace wet sanitation, saving a lot of water and energy, reducing infrastructure cost and complexity, protecting the environment from nutrient emmissions into water bodies and providing fertiliser at the place where the food is needed. As far as I know permaculture would be well suited for urban agriculture operations?
Looking forward to your point of view and valued recommendations. Martin |
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Dear all,
BBC World News is repeating the Zer0-M video by Joshka Wessels and TVE, Waste not Waste. While I write this TVE is still working at getting the dates of the broadcastin right on their homepage. But below are the correct broadcasting times. You find the complete treatment of the film on the webpage of TVE. Appreciate also the research about interesting links TVE has done, a who is who of ecosanitation. 'Waste not Waste' is broadcast on BBC World News at the following times (all times quoted as UK time zone currently GMT): Friday 16 January at 20:30, with repeats on Tuesday 20 January at 15:30 and Wednesday 21 January at 02:30. I wish you good fun. Best regards, Martin |
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have a look at www.Permaculture.TV
Permaculture TV is a project of the Media Cooperative Pilot being founded by Nicholas Roberts Permaculture TV has two language editions English and Latino
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when is your next dates for the course? WHAT WILL IT COST ON SOUTH AFRICAN CURRENCE? |
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Geoff Lawton told me that the following summary of what permaculture is is accurate:
Permaculture is a set of principles and practices for creating local sustainability that is respectful to all of the human and non-human members of the community. In short, it is working with local nature in setting up an edible ecosystem that feeds, shelters and beautifies the community. The initial set up is labor and time intensive, but when designed well, the symbiotic relationships and energy cycles within the system do much of the maintenance work. Permaculture has proven effective in many places, and it is important to know that a design for one place will not be appropriate for another. Keen observation is required to design and implement a sustainable edible ecosystem in any specific area. |
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It would be great for folks to bring ideas and questions like the one below onto the Permaculture Alliance of California disscussion page. Although a California Based allaince, memebrs are from all over and have experience in all types of climates and areas around the globe.
in the meantime a great resource of permie plants is found at http://www.onegreenworld.com/ totally rocks on the food foresting ideals as does http://www.forestfarm.com/ you can add hardiness and the site will search for you forest farm has 542 results! man the USDA has GOT to get some better plant list eh?! best always benjamin |
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This is what I found from the USDA's website
http://www.usna.usda.gov/Hardzone/hrdzon4.html#7 The problem is that its very short...And doesn't really help me at all. Zone 7 0 to 10 F -17.8 to -12.3 C Acer macrophylium (Bigleaf maple) Rhododendron Kurume hybrids (Kurume azalea) Cedrus atlantica (Atlas cedar) Cotoneaster microphylla (Small-leaf cotoneaster) Ilex aquifolium (English holly) Taxus baccata (English yew) |
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Hey,
Does anyone have a plant list for zone 7 on the plant hardiness rating? I'm looking to start a permaculture farm on a few acres. I already have raised garden beds and a greenhouse to use. Thanks |
I 've just hit this space and greatly excited with what is happening here. I am committed to Link up what we are doing in Cameroon, West and Central Africato this space. The Better World Cameroon Permaculture and Climate Initiative is rooted on the believe that African Spirituality and global ecology are the inspiring principles by which we can relate land and the animals avoiding all forms of pollution and watse. Our mission is to play a crucial role in improving the Art of Living with Nature and spread our ideas to have a rippling effect for a Better World for all.
Visit us on our web site under construction www.betterworld-cameroon.com our problem is that of lack of connectivity . Is any one of you innovators willing to lend a helping hand on linking up africa!
We will be grateful to connect!