http://permaculture.org.au Changing the world one site at a time Sat, 21 Nov 2009 19:21:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en prihttp://feedburner.google.com Here's a worrying trend - people growing food in back yards! Whatever next!? Stacey Murphy is obviously an enemy of all that is good in our consumption-oriented world. Almost certainly a deceptively slippery character, she positively oozes with dangerously contagious enthusiasm in this clip about her Brooklyn based urban guerilla ... http://permaculture.org.au/2009/11/22/bk-farmyards-a-subversive-urban-farming-concept/ by Janet Larsen, Earth Policy Institute Future firefighters have their work cut out for them. Perhaps nowhere does this hit home harder than in Australia, where in early 2009 a persistent drought, high winds, and record high temperatures set the stage for the worst wildfire in the country’s history. ... http://permaculture.org.au/2009/11/21/inferno-on-earth-wildfires-spreading-as-temperatures-rise/ The small city of El Bolsón is located in the southwest of the Río Negro Province, right in the angle formed by the Andes Mountain Range and the 42nd parallel (provincial border with Chubut). It is a place known internationally by its people and its wonderful natural beauty. People from ... http://permaculture.org.au/2009/11/19/natural-construction-in-argentina-trends-of-an-emerging-permacultural-area/ Birds eye view of the Virgin Island Sustainable Farm Institute St. Croix, a 6 x 20 mile island in the Caribbean, is exploding with positive action. Led by the Virgin Island Sustainable Farm Institute, locally grown food and ecological agriculture are seeding in with island people and travelers ... http://permaculture.org.au/2009/11/18/permaculture-seeds-sprouting-on-st-croix/ Joel Salatin runs one of the best examples of a fully functional & productive sustainable farming operation found anywhere in the United States at Polyface Farms. It may not fit the precise permaculture mold, but it does demonstrate what's possible without the use of expensive and destructive chemical inputs & ... http://permaculture.org.au/2009/11/18/joel-salatin-and-the-expression-of-chickenness/ Greening the Desert II - Greening the Middle East (Duration: 35 mins) If you haven't already, to understand this latest video, please be sure to watch ... http://permaculture.org.au/2009/11/17/greening-the-desert-ii-video-greening-the-middle-east/ We are having a Permablitz this weekend here on the Gold Coast, below are the details. Event: Permablitz Gold Coast Date: Saturday 21st November Time: 9am onwards Venue: Ingleside State School, 893 Tallebudgera Creek Road, Tallebudgera Valley QLD (15 minutes drive ... http://permaculture.org.au/2009/11/17/permablitz-gold-coast-saturday-21-november/ It’s probably too late to prepare for peak oil, but we can at least try to salvage food production. by George Monbiot: journalist, author, academic and environmental and political activist, United Kingdom I don’t know when global oil supplies will start to decline. I do know that another resource has already peaked ... http://permaculture.org.au/2009/11/17/if-nothing-else-save-farming/ Regular readers will have noted a couple of posts - here and here - covering the new and developing Mullumbimby Community Gardens project underway not so far from Zaytuna Farm (about half an hour east, if travelling by car, or a day's ride on horseback). Readers of those posts will ... http://permaculture.org.au/2009/11/13/tigger-does-the-mullumbimby-community-gardens/ That comment use to cross my mind, but luckily I got over it. I completed my PDC in January '09 with Geoff at Zaytuna farm, along with a lovely range of fellow students from the far reaches of the globe. I sincerely hope they also post stories to share ... http://permaculture.org.au/2009/11/13/what-will-the-neighbours-think/