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		<title>My First Week at Thailand&#8217;s Newest Permaculture Farm</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2012/01/26/my-first-week-at-thailands-newest-permaculture-farm/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:27:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Theron Beaudreau</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Theron Beaudreau 
In a rural village at the Southwest corner of the Isaan Plateau, just over an hour drive south of Thailand&#8217;s second largest city, Korat, a band of tenacious permaculturalists have just arrived at the site of their new home. 

Over the course of the next year, infrastructure will be erected, community and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Permaculture in Damaged Lands: Degradation and Restoration in New Mexico</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2012/01/21/permaculture-in-damaged-lands-degradation-and-restoration-in-new-mexico/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 15:43:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Smith</dc:creator>
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  A certain coal-strewn road in Madrid, New Mexico 
 &#8212; the remnants of a now defunct railway.
  Alternately barren and spectacular, the southwest United States has piqued the imagination of Americans and people across the world for generations. The site of gold rushes, Native American homelands, and a culture of lawlessness that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John Hardy: My Green School Dream</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2012/01/16/john-hardy-my-green-school-dream/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 11:34:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Mackintosh PRI Editor</dc:creator>
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Join John Hardy on a tour of the Green School, his off-the-grid school in Bali that teaches kids how to build, garden, create (and get into college). The centerpiece of campus is the spiraling Heart of School, perhaps the world&#8217;s largest freestanding bamboo building. &#8212; Ted.com 

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		<title>Permaculture at The Farm</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2012/01/13/permaculture-at-the-farm/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 12:25:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Albert Bates</dc:creator>
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        Former stockbroker Brian Bankston now calls himself the &#8220;Keyline Cowboy&#8221; after a carbon farming course at The Farm&#8217;s Ecovillage Training Center transformed his life. He quit his job, bought a keyline plow and compost tea brewer, and moved to The Farm.


Climate Prophylaxis
For the past 10 years or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kotare Village and Community Development &#8211; Your New Zealand Opportunity</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/12/24/kotare-village-and-community-development-your-new-zealand-opportunity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 17:06:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Corker</dc:creator>
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To confidently face the many challenges that the future holds for us, we need new models for living lightly on Earth and for building resilience into our communities.
We can&#8217;t expect that we can merely change our intentions and the existing economic, physical and social structures will magically serve our new intentions with &#8216;green&#8217; add-ons.
 Design [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Permaculture Successes in a Zimbabwean Community</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/10/01/permaculture-successes-in-a-zimbabwean-community/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 17:59:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Monika Goforth</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://permaculture.org.au/?p=6273</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[by Monika Goforth and Terry Leahy, University of Newcastle, Australia

To use permaculture lingo, Chikukwa can be described as a real edge, both in terms of ecology, culture and language, and the edge effect has certainly produced something rich. The community here has a sense of being both somewhat innocent and progressive at the same time. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rob Hopkins: Transition to a World Without Oil</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/07/27/rob-hopkins-transition-to-a-world-without-oil/</link>
		<comments>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/07/27/rob-hopkins-transition-to-a-world-without-oil/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2011 13:29:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Mackintosh PRI Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rob Hopkins, founder of the Transition movement, gives a great TED Talk.

  
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		<title>Sustainable Agriculture and Off-Grid Renewable Energy</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/07/20/sustainable-agriculture-and-off-grid-renewable-energy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2011 13:30:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>I-SIS</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Small integrated farms with off-grid renewable energy may be the perfect solution to the food and financial crisis while mitigating and adapting to climate change
by Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 
Note: A fully referenced and illustrated version of this report is posted on ISIS members&#8217; website and also available for download here.

    A Sarvodaya [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Edgevertizing &#8211; the Story of the Itinerant Japanese Knife-Sharpener</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/07/07/edgevertizing-the-story-of-the-itinerant-japanese-knife-sharpener/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2011 11:14:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cecilia Macaulay</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Cecilia Macaulay
 
Knife shaperner photo by Cecilia
Marginal overheads
 This itinerant knife sharpener does the rounds every few months in my neighbourhood in Tokyo.




        Knife sharpener photo by Cecilia


No office, no rent, no clocking in necessary &#8212; just a bike, a whetstone, and some slips of paper in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A New Permatecture Toolbox! (From Nikos A. Salingaros)</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/06/19/a-new-permatecture-toolbox-from-nikos-a-salingaros/</link>
		<comments>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/06/19/a-new-permatecture-toolbox-from-nikos-a-salingaros/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jun 2011 15:41:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Oyvind Holmstad</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by &#216;yvind Holmstad
The goal of permaculture is to reunite man with nature and man with man through design systems, and here patterns play an important role. Still, patterns can only reunite humans with natural systems and with each other, not with the geometry of the universe. Surely in what I like to call permatecture, better [...]]]></description>
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