Permaculture

Water Is Life, Deepwater Horizon Is Death, We Create Hope

Jacob Devaney | Posted 04.20.2012

Read More: Permaculture, Hope, Water, Environment, Deepwater Horizon, Native Americans, Climate Change, Green Living, Corporate Greed, Gulf Oil Spill, Video, Green News

Corporate greed and systemic corruption must be addressed at all levels of society if we desire to leave a legacy of hope for the next generation.

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Going Green in the City

Linda Buzzell | Posted 05.18.2012

Read More: Urban Homesteading, Chickens, Permaculture, Green Living, Ecotherapy, Urban Gardening, Urban Farming, Green News

Way too many of us believe we can't go green because we live in the city, have no land, have a small apartment, etc. etc. So we continue to be slaves of the supermarket.

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Magic of Permacouture: DIY Dyes From Your Kitchen/Garden Create Living Color Richer Than Synthetics (VIDEO)

Kirsten Dirksen | Posted 04.15.2012

Artist, educator and fashion designer Sasha Duerr uses just about anything to dye clothing: from kitchen waste to invasive "weeds" to the leaves, fruit or petals of nearly any tree or plant.

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Replanting Paradise is the Answer

Anthony Anderson | Posted 09.20.2011

Read More: Organic Gardening, Permaculture, Food Forests, Green News

We can plant edible "food forests" across the cities, suburbs, and former monocropped fields.

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Farm Dreams: If You're Not on the Land You Love...

Linda Buzzell | Posted 08.28.2011

Read More: Factory Farms, Farming, Gardening, Local Food, Real Estate, Urban Farming, Farm Dreams, Agriculture, Permaculture, Urban Agriculture, Home Gardening, Urban Gardens, Green News

Remember that old song: "If you're not with the one you love, love the one you're with"? The words keep running through my mind as I listen to many of our friends who dream of someday owning traditional farms and farmland.

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A Revolution Out Of Garbage In Haiti

Uma Viswanathan | Posted 07.22.2011

Read More: Sustainable Living, Haiti Relief, Permaculture, Haiti Earthquake, Haiti Relief Efforts, Haiti, Composting, Haiti Disaster Relief, Meditation, Sustainable Agriculture, Haiti Earthquake Relief, Haiti-Youth, Sustainability, Haiti Aid, International-Association-for-Human-Values, Impact News

The unique cornerstone of Nouvelle Vie Haiti is to shift the mindset of an entire generation. Wilner and the rest of his team are doing just that.

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Eagle and Condor Meet in Visionary Gathering of Souls

Tracy L. Barnett | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sustainability, Vision Council, Permaculture, Latin America, Green-Ecovillages, Green News

Some 500 visitors from as far as Australia and as near as neighboring Chalmita are learning to live together under the blue skies and bright stars of an itinerant ecovillage conceived more than a decade ago.

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Don't Sweep Away Crop Diversity

Danielle Nierenberg | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nourishing the Planet in the News, Permaculture, Stacia Nordin, Malawi, Indigenous Vegetables, Farmers, The Nation, Biodiversity, Food Security, Kristof Nordin, Green News

Efforts throughout Africa to promote staple crops -- high in calories but lacking in essential nutrients -- have ignored the importance of indigenous foods.

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Farewell, My Lovely: Bidding Adieu to Our National Parks

Rebekah and Stephen Hren | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Renewable Energy, Global Climate Disruption, Glaciers Melting Photos, Permaculture, Peak Oil, Arctic, Green News

Over 80% of the glaciers in Glacier National Park have melted. The last 25 are expected to vanish from glacier-dom in the next ten years. Kaput. Over. No more glaciers in Glacier National Park within a decade.

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Don't Stop... Gardening

Anthony Anderson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fall Gardening, Carrots, Kale, Greenhouse, Permaculture, Organic Gardening, Beets, Green News

Just because fall is around the corner doesn't mean we are throwing our hands up in the garden this year. Gardening does not end in September.

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Suburb Sprawls Sustainability

Ben Zolno | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Organic Farming, Permaculture, Chicago Suburbs, Organic Food, Local Food, Charter Schools, Suvs, Sustainability, Renewables, Green Business, Green Energy, Organic, Csa, Prairie Crossing, Ellen Page, Chicago News

Check out this new video about how a subdivision farm works with the restaurant just a few yards away, which serves their food often just hours after harvest.

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Revenge of the Weeds

Robert Koehler | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Farming, Permaculture, Monoculture, War, Addiction, Agribusiness, Aboriginal Culture, Herbicides, Agent Orange, English Language, Politics News

Today's big news stories -- the wars, the eco-disasters -- all seem to have the same gaping hole in them. This hole is lack of awareness, and its thru...

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Albert Bates on the Great Change

Tracy L. Barnett | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Agroforestry, Climate Change, Biochar, Permaculture, Peak Oil, Albert Bates, Green News

Recently I was privileged to spend some time in Belize with Albert Bates, co-founder of The Farm in Tennessee, the Global Ecovillage Network, and a prolific author and a visionary for our times.

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Living Off The Grid: William Powers' Extraordinary 12 X 12

Jerry Cope | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Twelve by Twelve, Permaculture, William-Powers, Off the Grid, Ecology, Nature, No Name Creek, Memoir, Deep Economy, Author Interviews, Books News

Powers' book provides for an entrancing account of his time living in No Name Creek North Carolina after accepting an invitation from Dr. Jackie Benton to live in her cabin which has a 12 X 12 footprint and is completely off the grid.

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Malawi's Real 'Miracle'

Danielle Nierenberg | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Permaculture, Subsidies, Africa, State of the World 2011, Malawi, Farmers, Education, Fertilizer, Agriculture, Green Revolution, Nutrition, Hunger, Biodiversity, Food Security, World News

Most Malawians think of foods, such as amaranth and African eggplant, as poor people foods grown by "bad" farmers. But these crops may hold the key for solving hunger, malnutrition and poverty in Malawi.

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From Mexico to Palestine: Carbon Offsets

Tracy L. Barnett | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Palestine, Permaculture, Carbon Offset Credits, Carbon Offsets, Mexico, Green News

I'm interested in minimizing my impact while promoting social change. When I learned that the Marda Permaculture Farm had a system using donations to plant trees in Palestine, I decided to go that route.

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Lessons In Falling: Growing Up In Malawi Prison

Mia Kirshner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Kachere, Legal Rights, Malaria, Community, Malawi, Education, Permaculture, I Live Here, Juvenile Prison, Impact News

I Live Here has found its voice through what I have learned in Malawi. We found our voice through mistakes, which I am sure we will continue to make and hopefully learn from.

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COP15 -- What Really Happened

Ellen Snortland | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Permaculture, Bill Liao, Sudan, cop15, Un, Weforestcom, Draft Copenhagen Accord, Reforestation, Green News

Being an official Party in the COP15 meetings, I sat bewildered as all the agreements we were working on got sidelined by a document that a small group of 30 nations, led by the US president, inserted into the agenda.

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What the Heck Is Permaculture?

Linda Buzzell | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ellen Page, Organic Gardening, Permaculture, Ellen Degeneres, Sustainability, Ecopsychology, Gardening, Teen Hollywood, Ecotherapy, Green News

Permaculture is a path towards sustainable living that is patterned on the way nature works, and can be applied in rural, suburban and urban areas.

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When Your Dorm Goes Green And Local

nytimes.com | CHARLES WILSON | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: University, Permaculture, Leed, Local Food, College, Ecodorm, Sustainability, Warren Wilson College, Green Living, Schools, Ecodesign, North Carolina, Green News

Thoreau said education often made straight-cut ditches out of meandering brooks. But not at the EcoDorm, which houses 36 undergraduates and is the spi...

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The Waking Up Syndrome

Linda Buzzell | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Simplicity, Transition Initiatives, Ecopsychology, Permaculture, Local Food, Ecotherapy, Pachamama Alliance, Green News

Environmentalists are now finally realizing that this is actually a problem of human psychology and human behavior, not just climate science, technology or resource scarcity.

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Fear of A Double Dip Recession

Stephen C. Rose | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Driving, Pattern Language, Cars, Integral Thinking, Obama Economy, Metrosprawl, Oil Economy, Recession, Permaculture, Christopher Alexander, Density, Oil, Communities, Double Dip Recession, Diabetes, Cities, Business News

The enemies remain the car, the superhighway, the notion of endless oil and the willingness to grit teeth and accept the constraints of what passes for life in metrosprawl.

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Vote for Permaculture for REAL Freedom

Anthony Anderson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Organic, Food Forests, Freedom, Green, Permaculture, Slavery, Style News

And who wants to say no to highly-mineralized, organic, local produce? At basically no cost after time? Permaculture is a HUGE part of the answer.

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Rajeev Goyal Listens to the Villagers of Nepal

Laurence Leamer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Foreign Aid, Peace Corps, Permaculture, Nepal, Kathmandu, Government Assistance, India, Development, Usaid, World News

In terms of the philanthropic world, Krisiko Asha was microscopic in purpose, serving to advance sixteen tiny villages in the remote hills of Nepal, one of the poorest, smallest countries in the world.

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Palestinians Regard Permaculture As A Necessity, Not A Choice (VIDEO)

Youth Radio -- Youth Media International | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Youth Radio, Permaculture, Nora Barrows-Friedman, West Bank, Palestinian, Israel, Jordan River, Alice Harrison, Youthradio, Enviromentalism, Bustan Qaraaqa Farm, Water Crisis, Video, Palestinian Authority, World News

Inside the occupied West Bank, permaculture is not just a decision of conscience but a necessary means of empowerment within an ever-changing, uncertain landscape.

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