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		<title>Incorporating Disability Access and Therapeutic Spaces in Permaculture Design</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2012/02/09/incorporating-disability-access-and-therapeutic-spaces-in-permaculture-design/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:38:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elspeth Brock</dc:creator>
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  Ilma Lever Gardens garden designed for wheelchair access

  When working in various gardens for community usage I found we often needed to consider access for gardeners of a range of abilities without compromising the overall function of the design.  I want to outline some things I have found useful to make [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Newcastle Fair Share Festival is On Again!</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2012/02/08/the-newcastle-fair-share-festival-is-on-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Shiel</dc:creator>
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When: 9 &#8212; 11 March 2012, starting on the evening of March 9
  Where: Hamilton Public School, corner of Tudor Steet and Steel Street, Newcastle, NSW, Australia
  Theme: &#34;Transitioning to connected communities, localised fair economies and sustainable lifestyles.&#34;
 Please put this event in your diaries, and &#8216;like&#8217; us at www.facebook.com/#!/FairShareFestival
In this second and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Peer-to-Peer Themes and Urban Priorities for the Self-organizing Society</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2012/02/07/peer-to-peer-themes-and-urban-priorities-for-the-self-organizing-society/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:37:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nikos A. Salingaros</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Nikos A. Salingaros, The University of Texas at San Antonio

Abstract
This essay presents desirable social functioning as basically a matter of free individual decision. I discuss two basic polarities: Left versus Right, and P2P (Peer-to-Peer) versus Global-mass-society. Each polarity takes certain distinctions and concerns as key to understanding political life. A self-organizing P2P society is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Search for Sustainability in the Negev</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2012/02/02/the-search-for-sustainability-in-the-negev/</link>
		<comments>http://permaculture.org.au/2012/02/02/the-search-for-sustainability-in-the-negev/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:59:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alice Gray</dc:creator>
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The Bedouin of the Negev are an ancient people whose cultural history spans centuries, if not millennia. Historically, the Bedouin have been semi-nomadic pastoralists, who made the desert their own through a combination of dry-land farming of forage crops and cereals, rainwater harvesting and seasonal mobility: rotating their presence between their winter and summer grazing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Divine Injustice</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2012/02/01/divine-injustice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 09:43:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Monbiot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Drone warfare can be used to thwart democratic movements, anywhere.
by George Monbiot: journalist, author, academic and environmental and political activist, United Kingdom.

The ancient Greeks, unlike the Jews or the Christians, invested their gods with human failings. Divine judgement, they believed, was neither flawless nor dispassionate; it was warped by lust, vengeance and self-interest. In the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Community Design Template for 25-500 Families</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2012/01/31/community-design-template-for-25-500-families/</link>
		<comments>http://permaculture.org.au/2012/01/31/community-design-template-for-25-500-families/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:43:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dann Zealley</dc:creator>
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Introduction

  Back in 2008 I spent 6 weeks in Venezuela. I have a Venezuelan friend who believes as I do that permaculture could and should be a driving force for positive change. We both also believe that the Bolivarian Revolution, championed most famously by the charismatic and controversially colourful personality of Hugo Chavez, despite [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Permaculture and Wall Street &#8212; We Must Tackle the Runaway Fiscal Economy Head On, &#8220;We Must Face Up and Fight&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2012/01/30/permaculture-and-wall-street-we-must-tackle-the-runaway-fiscal-economy-head-on-we-must-face-up-and-fight/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:24:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Mackintosh PRI Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I admire the efforts of the permaculturists at the Occupy Wall Street camp, and I think, judging by his statement way back in 1983 (see below), that Bill would admire them also.

  


Hunger is rising, absolute hunger is rising, food&#8217;s badly distributed, not distributed at all often. The waste of food, the whole deal [...]]]></description>
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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>
		<comments>http://permaculture.org.au/2012/01/26/my-first-week-at-thailands-newest-permaculture-farm/#comments</comments>
		<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>
		<comments>http://permaculture.org.au/2012/01/21/permaculture-in-damaged-lands-degradation-and-restoration-in-new-mexico/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 15:43:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
  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>Who Needs Grass?</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2012/01/19/who-needs-grass/</link>
		<comments>http://permaculture.org.au/2012/01/19/who-needs-grass/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 17:30:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leigh Glenn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Kniskerns&#8217; yard is a sustainable smorgasbord



      Over a period of less than 10 years, James and Mary Kniskern transformed their sod-based lawn into a vibrant, blooming habitat that not only reduces their impact on the land but also rewards them with a bounty of edible plants as well as [...]]]></description>
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