The much awaited follow up to Geoff Lawton’s inspirational five minute flash video posted on You Tube a few years ago…
Greening the Desert II: Greening the Middle East from Craig Mackintosh on Vimeo.
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So having looked at the functionality of different patterns, how might we go about using this knowledge to design truly sustainable ways of living? Well, looking at both excellent and poor examples of pattern application should help illustrate the idea.
In wastewater treatment systems, we have long used beds of gravel to help clean up our [...]
If I were to ask you the question:
“What is the quickest way to get from A to B?”
A . [...]
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It’s unusual to get to the end of the day at the moment, without hearing the word ‘recession’ (look there I go mentioning it again!). But these cycles are to be expected as they are a completely natural thing. Each year we enter a different kind of recession, but one that we are always [...]
Continue reading about Natural economics ~ have we invested badly?
So what’s your new year resolution? Have you thought of one yet?
The turning of the year always provides us with a great incentive for a fresh start, but what is the secret to maintaining any new habits?
Well for me, it has to be something important, or I lack the helping hand of my conscience. Those [...]
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Last weekend, on my way to teaching one of my weekends-based permaculture design courses, I was offered a leap of faith. It had rained heavily the night before, so I encountered areas of flooding on the first half of my journey which I carefully negotiated. It all seemed manageable, but then I came across the [...]
Continue reading about Fording the floodwater with fingers crossed…
I guess that going to the loo just isn’t dramatic enough to be discussed in the new BBC1 series of Survivors.
But don’t you just want to know all the details?
We’ve seen plenty of the cast foraging for food and water from abandoned shops, but nothing of the way they are managing to keep their toilet [...]
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