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By Konrad

Ukraine Permaculture Aid – How You Can Help

Few days ago I got an email from a fellow permaculturist in Ukraine about their current situation and project and how you can help. Here’s the email: Dear fellow permaculturists and agroecologists, Please support projects of the NGO ‘Permaculture in Ukraine’ to help victims of Russian aggression: Supplying the first aid kits (https://tinyurl.com/43kr2mzj) to Ukrainian […]

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By Konrad

Next residential PDC course on the Sunshine Coast, Australia, August 2020

Thought about doing a residential PDC course this year? The next 12-day Permaculture Design Certificate course: 21 Aug – 01 Sep, 2020. The PDC course is run at the Noosa Forest Retreat in the Sunshine Coast Hinterland, QLD Australia. PDC teachers: Ian Trew and Christina Laurikainen Exciting guest presenters on specialty topics like urban permaculture […]

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By Chrissy-Tiina Laurikainen

Are These Potent Inhibitors of Coronavirus in Your Kitchen Garden?

In this post, we use peer-reviewed journal articles to understand how a collection of edible plants help generate immunity to coronavirus (COVID-19) & other serious viruses.

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By Chrissy-Tiina Laurikainen

Free Electricity from Compost – DIY Earth Battery.

Bacteria produce electricity. This article explains how they do it & shows you what you need to produce free electricity from compost, garden soil, potted plants, wormfarms, greywater systems, blackwater systems, aquatic plants…bacteria!

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By Chrissy-Tiina Laurikainen

What is Permaculture & How Can it Meet Our Needs?

A collaborative brainstorm exploring how permaculture helps meet needs.

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By Konrad

Integrated Health & Wellbeing – Talk by Ian Trew at Polkadot Festival 2019

Just last weekend in Noosa, the Polkadot Festival was on for 2 days. We’ve been there…

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By Chrissy-Tiina Laurikainen

Loving Nature, Natural Building & All Things Permaculture!

What’s one of the most fascinating things you’ve learned in your teaching Permaculture & Natural Building?

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By Chrissy-Tiina Laurikainen

Why We Need to Focus on Earth, Not Mars!

‘Physics World’ invites a permaculture teacher to comment on future missions to Mars during a special ‘Focus on Astronomy and Space’.

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By Konrad

Next 12-Day Residential PDC Course November 2018

The residential 12-day PDC course at Noosa Forest Retreat in the Sunshine Coast Hinterland, QLD Australia.

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Next Residential PDC Course – Aug 2018 – by Noosa Forest Retreat

Thought about doing a residential PDC course this year? The next 12-day Permaculture Design Certificate course: 17-28 August 2018. The PDC course is run at the Noosa Forest Retreat in the Sunshine Coast Hinterland, QLD Australia.   PDC teachers: Ian Trew and Christina Laurikainen Exciting guest presenters on specialty topics like fungi, urban permaculture and […]

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By Konrad

The Permaculture Magazine Prize 2018

TELL YOUR FRIENDS AND SHARE THIS POST!   Win £10,000 For Your Permaculture Project! The Permaculture Magazine Prize launches in 2018, with £20,000 funds to be awarded to projects showing best practice permaculture in ecological, social and cultural design. First price will win the main award of £10,000 Four runners up of £2,500 The prize […]

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By Konrad

A new airport terminal with a forest and the world’s largest indoor waterfall

Singapore Changi Airport did it again – a new airport terminal that combines sustainability and technology. The new terminal has its own forest with more than 2,500 trees and 100,000 shrubs (!). And not enough, they also build the world’s largest indoor waterfall. Classic Changi.   Check out this quick video from twitter, with the […]

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China has built the world’s largest air purifier

Cleaning 10 million cubic metres a day. Since it came online a few months ago, the tower has led to cleaner air within four square miles of its installation and it has produced 353 million cubic airs of cleaner air, SCMP reports. Because it’s powered by solar energy, the air purifier also doesn’t indirectly contribute […]

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