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	<title>Permaculture Research InstituteGeoff Lawton &#187; Permaculture Research Institute</title>
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		<title>Arts Factory Backpackers &#8211; Photo Update</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2012/02/01/arts-factory-backpackers-photo-update/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 12:07:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff Lawton</dc:creator>
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I was visiting Byron Bay on my last Sunday off in conditions where we have had a large amount of rain and some very unsettled weather with lots of storms. With the winds from the north, the surf conditions where very messy and unfavorable, as also were the fishing conditions, the sea was really unsettled [...]]]></description>
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		<title>O-Farm Community Gardens, Hong Kong</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/03/10/o-farm-community-gardens-hong-kong/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2011 21:16:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff Lawton</dc:creator>
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O-Farm Hong Kong is championed by PDC graduate Yip Tsz Shing. It is a wonderful community garden where very small spaces, just a few metres (8 square metres on average), are rented by Hong Kong residents.
 Some may travel up to an hour and a half each way to come and garden fresh organic food [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chinese Salt Water Fish Ponds</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Mar 2011 16:42:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff Lawton</dc:creator>
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Like the Hawaiian salt water fish ponds, there are some traditional Chinese salt water fish ponds that work very well. Many of these have been modernised into fishing and angling ponds to capitalise on the urban population, but when you look into the traditional systems there are some very interesting variations. 


One such system we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Options for Alternative Buildings</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/03/05/options-for-alternative-buildings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Mar 2011 19:25:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff Lawton</dc:creator>
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Here we are looking at options for building alternative structures, especially small buildings for the suburbs which can accommodate people in a sustainable way in urban gardens. 
  Small buildings made of natural materials like rammed earth, cob and straw bale with bamboo, timber, tile, slate and small stone inclusions, can all be built [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Design Exercises in Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) Courses</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/03/03/design-exercises-in-permaculture-design-certificate-pdc-courses/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2011 12:11:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff Lawton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Building]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Energy Systems]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Retrofitting]]></category>
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  Melbourne PDC Design
Photo &#169; Craig Mackintosh 
It is standard format, in the PDC curriculum, that students are given an exercise to design a landscape with a design brief so they can make the move into design while being mentored by their Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) teacher. This is not a test but an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Community Gardens Visited and Observed: Veggie Village in Peregian Beach</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/02/18/community-gardens-visited-and-observed-veggie-village-in-peregian-beach/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Feb 2011 18:43:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff Lawton</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Education Centres]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food Shortages]]></category>
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Community gardens are a very valuable demonstration of how a community can grow its own food, provide its own power, harvest its own water from roofs and build appropriate buildings and infrastructure. They are a wonderful element in the community and permaculture people all over the world should support community gardens in all their forms.
An [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Advanced Solar, and Independence, at PRI&#8217;s Zaytuna Farm</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/02/12/advanced-solar-and-independence-at-pris-zaytuna-farm/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Feb 2011 14:50:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff Lawton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Zaytuna Farm, home of the Permaculture Research Institute of Australia, sets up an advanced solar electric system to demonstrate the best example of stand-alone solar electric power we can find.

 Here at Zaytuna Farm we have endeavored to demonstrate the efficiency and advantage of a stand alone power system. This is especially relevant now in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Saudi Arabian Philippines (with Tropical Desert Possibilities) &#8211; Discovering the Cultural Edges</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2010/12/03/saudi-arabian-philippines-with-tropical-desert-possibilities-discovering-the-cultural-edges/</link>
		<comments>http://permaculture.org.au/2010/12/03/saudi-arabian-philippines-with-tropical-desert-possibilities-discovering-the-cultural-edges/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Dec 2010 17:58:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff Lawton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Building]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Gabions]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Swales]]></category>
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  A Filipino garden &#8212; in Saudi Arabia!
Working in Saudi Arabia on a large project, in this case the Al-Baydha project, involving Bedouin People who have been resettled into villages for the past 20-30 years, is an interesting broad landscape affair as it covers about 700km2 and 9 villages. The culture of Bedouin rangeland [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Constructing a Fishpond Dam</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2010/11/26/constructing-a-fishpond-dam/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Nov 2010 16:51:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff Lawton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aquaculture]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dams]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fish]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Land]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Natural Swimming]]></category>
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  The spillway that sets the height of the water and allows for passive 
discharge of surplus water during large rainfall events
We can build a dam to serve specifically as a fish pond and which can be designed to be more productive for aquaculture systems generally, compared with stocking an existing farm dam with [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>16</slash:comments>
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		<title>Gabions: Water Soaks in the Desert</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2010/11/25/gabions-water-soaks-in-the-desert/</link>
		<comments>http://permaculture.org.au/2010/11/25/gabions-water-soaks-in-the-desert/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Nov 2010 17:02:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff Lawton</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Gabions]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Land]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Soil Conservation]]></category>
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Gabions are one of the crucial feature  elements of dry land landscape water harvesting design. A gabion is a leaky rock dam wall built in a wadi, valley canyon or water flow, at a point where there would be a reasonable amount of water caught if there was a dam wall in the same [...]]]></description>
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