http://permaculture.org.au Changing the world one site at a time Thu, 09 Jul 2009 01:39:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en prihttp://feedburner.google.com When rainwater harvesting is mentioned, most people think of tanks straight away. That’s a great start, but there is a much bigger storage you have available to you on your land – the soil. (Check out Brad Lancaster’s fun U-tube video on this site, ‘The muffin tin and the sponge’ ... http://permaculture.org.au/2009/07/09/french-drains-for-urban-storm-water-infiltration/ A couple of years ago I discovered a site called cheatneutral.com. I thought I'd share it with you today in case you haven't come across it already. At cheatneutral.com, you're encouraged to reduce incidences of cheating on your partner, but if you cannot (for reasons beyond your control), you ... http://permaculture.org.au/2009/07/08/carbon-offsetting-is-it-cheating/ Why have government agencies been paying to increase the number of flights? by George Monbiot: journalist, author, academic and environmental and political activist, United Kingdom The Sky is not the limit when it's taxpayer funded ... http://permaculture.org.au/2009/07/08/subsidising-the-climate-crash/ Our entire current PDC class just got off a video conference call with their counterparts in Canada - another class doing a PDC on the other side of the globe, under the tutelage of Jesse Lemieux on Denman Island, British Columbia, Canada. (Jesse is just establishing PRI Canada, a ... http://permaculture.org.au/2009/07/07/life-at-zaytuna-pri-australia-and-pri-canada-students-video-conference/ As concerns over food security - and maintaining a lavish lifestyle - deepen, people in poor nations are seeing their land whittled away as it gets sold to wealthy nation states and corporations. The era of cheap food is over.... [digg-reddit-me]Some of us have followed the news on the recent ... http://permaculture.org.au/2009/07/07/rich-nations-buying-up-land-in-poor-countries-at-escalating-rate/ Miraji Muganda His name is Miraji Muganda. He is a 17 year old Tanzanian boy, who lives in Musoma on Lake Victoria. Tanzania suffers from poverty and environmental exploitation. At 14, Miraji followed an Australian Permaculture teacher ... http://permaculture.org.au/2009/07/07/help-miraji-from-tanzania-take-part-in-global-education/ Yasamain surveys with the laser level We're halfway through our latest Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) course, and the students appear to be learning a lot as well as having a lot of fun along the way. Today their knowledge store was tested and stretched, by way of having their minds ... http://permaculture.org.au/2009/07/06/life-at-zaytuna-pdc-students-given-design-brief/ A couple of days ago Nadia accepted an invitation to teach a small segment (on arid climates) of a PDC course at Djanbung Gardens, which is just outside the infamous little village of Nimbin - about half an hour from where we are here at Zaytuna Farm. I thought ... http://permaculture.org.au/2009/07/04/taking-a-quick-peek-at-djanbung-gardens/ by Dan Palmer, Very Edible Gardens As more and more people become aware of the many reasons to provide for more of their needs at home, we are finding more and more demand for permaculture design consultancies. We are currently doing two or three in Melbourne each week, and in this ... http://permaculture.org.au/2009/07/04/urban-design-patterns-in-melbourne/ I've often heard people state that climate change was invented by governments and corporations as a means of controlling and profiting from the populace - these are the climate change conspiracy theorists. While I think there is a very real danger, as I've expressed more than once, that if we ... http://permaculture.org.au/2009/07/03/exxon-still-funding-climate-denial-groups/