Watch the 5 most epic Earth Healing projects narrated by Andrew Millison
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Sounds nice, right. No segregation, everything integrated so that everyone is happy and working together, right? But does it really work that way? Full cooperation and no competition, even in the natural world sounds nice but it doesn’t exist that way? There…
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Bill Mollison defines a pollutant as “an output of any system component that is not being used productively by any other component of the system” This encourages us to design systems that make use of all outputs to minimize pollution…
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Design from Patterns to Details Permaculture Principle #7 In reading David Holgrens book Permaculture Principles and Pathways beyond Sustainability, I’ve come to realize that this section is much more than just observing nature and copying it. But there is not enough room…
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Permaculture Principle #5 What is a renewable resource? “Renewable resources are those which are renewed and replaced by natural processes over reasonable periods without the need for major non-renewable inputs.” This means that using trees for fuel and building materials is…
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The fourth principle is Apply Self-Regulation and Accept feedback. How do we do this? In reading David Holgrens book, Permaculture Principles and Pathways beyond sustainability, I have found that the easiest way to apply this principle is to use his self-audit process….
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Recently, a gentleman suggested to me that permaculture was too important to make money from it. But in my response I disagreed because it would basically negate the second principle, Catch and Store Energy. When energy is expended by teaching or consulting,…
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The second Permaculture Principle is Collect and Store Energy. But why is this the second, and not the last? We can do lots of things without energy, right? When you only consider energy such as electricity, wind, or solar then yes, these…
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A lot of us know the three ethics of permaculture, care of the land, care for the future, and care of people. There are a few different versions of this but I’ll leave that for later discussion. What I want to discuss…
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