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Sepp Holzer brings hugelkultur to Michigan

Sebastian von Holstein |

Sunday, 16th June 2013

What do you when you have a few wood trunks, a couple of diggers and a top Austrian permaculture innovator at hand? You build a hugelkultur bed and pond system... obviously!

Rob's photo from The Market of Hope in The Power of Just Doing Stuff

The Economics of the Future: Relocalisation

Rob Hopkins |

Thursday, 13th June 2013

Eight thousand supermarket outlets now account for over 97 per cent of total grocery sales in the UK; a pattern increasingly replicated in other parts of the world. It’s a trend that former Tesco boss Sir Terry Leahy recently called “part of progress”, describing...

When art turns suburban lawns into edible food parks

Sebastian von Holstein |

Sunday, 9th June 2013

The city can sometimes seem an inhospitable place. The clear, yet faceless glass skyscrapers, the characterless, useless suburban lawns that sprawl out of the city.

Celebrating June - growing, picking & preserving edible native flowers

Glennie Kindred |

Wednesday, 5th June 2013

With the rich abundance of plants and herbs coming into flower, this is the main time for cutting and drying them for future use.

Introducing the Plantains - multi-yielding plants for a permaculture system

Christopher Hope |

Thursday, 30th May 2013

The plantains (Plantago lanceolata / P.major from Plantaginaceae family) are some of Britain's most common and valuable wild plants. When looking for plants that provide multi-yields in our permaculture systems, we need to take...

Yields of wheat cross-bred from wild grass could be boosted by 30%

Rozie Apps |

Sunday, 26th May 2013

The use of genetic engineering in food production is hugely controversial. With the increase of genetically modified foods (GM), there is also growing evidence that those GM foods carry risks.

The Ecocity: The only way to organise massive populations?

Richard Register & Sven Eberlein |

Sunday, 19th May 2013

SE: There's a lot of "ecocity-washing" going on right now. At the same time there isn't a true ecocity on earth yet. How far can a model veer from the true ecocity vision in the name of moving in the right direction?
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Putting the 'permanent culture' into permaculture

Looby Macnamara |

Wednesday, 15th May 2013

Personal sustainability is the ability to sustain ourselves: our energy levels, health and connection to our dreams and visions, other people and our higher self. People have a responsibility to maintain their own physical, emotional, mental and spiritual health...

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