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		<title>Earthship Huts &#8211; Low Hanging Fruit in the Fight Against Poverty</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:02:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Feineigle</dc:creator>
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Beavers and wasps can build their own homes&#8230; &#8212; Michael Reynolds

History

  Modern Earthships are shelters built to sustain their occupants by providing energy, water, and waste management through the use of passive systems. They have been designed to meet the rigorous criteria that are found in the building codes of so many [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Dance with Bees Continues</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:41:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony Andrist</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Editor&#8217;s Note: Those keen to gain more expert insights into beekeeping would do well to take Anthony&#8217;s upcoming 1-day Introduction to Beekeeping using Permaculture Principles course, to be held March 25, 2012 at Lansdowne in the scenic Manning Valley on the Mid North Coast of NSW, Australia.
by Anthony Andrist 

  Go to the bee, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Michael Reynolds, Earthship Originator, Speaking in Sydney</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 11:59:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Milkwood Permaculture</dc:creator>
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Guess what? Milkwood are hosting a great evening talk with Michael Reynolds, that world-leading sustainability pioneer of Earthship Biotecture, in Sydney on the 26th Feb. Do you want to come?

This community event is going to be a uniquely inspiring &#38; informative evening of radical architecture, ideas and discussion about Earthship building and living. &#62;&#62; Book [...]]]></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>Yemen: On the Permaculture Map</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 15:14:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Samuel Bonello</dc:creator>
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  The view flying into Tarim
The country of Yemen has not been featured much on the PRI blog page. It has only been mentioned briefly in some articles discussing water shortages in the region and it has made the list of exotic destinations to apply knowledge gained in a PRI Aid Workers course. I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Monotonous Repetition is Unsatisfying</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2012/01/04/why-monotonous-repetition-is-unsatisfying/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 14:04:23 +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 (This article first appeared in Meandering Through Mathematics, 2 September 2011.)
Conjectures on combinatorial complexity
When applying mathematics to interpret our world we invariably run into formidable difficulties. Explaining human perception of our surroundings and our reactions to the environment requires that we know the mechanisms [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Zen View Upon the World (Less is More)</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/12/15/a-zen-view-upon-the-world-less-is-more/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 12:17:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Oyvind Holmstad</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Øyvind Holmstad

This article is inspired by the Alexandrine pattern 134, Zen View. The pattern&#160;states: &#8220;The&#160;archetypal&#160;zen view occurs in a famous&#160;Japanese&#160;house, which gives this pattern its name.&#8221;
Let&#8217;s start with listening to the wisdom of A Pattern Language&#160;(Please note that the illustrations of the original text are missing):

 A Buddhist monk lived high in the mountains, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Little Pig That Built With Straw</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/12/07/the-little-pig-that-built-with-straw/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 17:22:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Mackintosh PRI Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The University of Nottingham, UK, has created this video to showcase one of their new buildings, completed this year. It&#8217;s one of the largest strawbale buildings in Europe.

  
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		<title>A Multilayered Anti-Pattern</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/12/06/a-multilayered-anti-pattern/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 14:17:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Oyvind Holmstad</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Øyvind Holmstad 

The problem is that we are adapting to the wrong things &#8212; to images, or to short-term greed, or to the clutter of mechanics. These maladaptations are known as &#8220;antipatterns&#8221; &#8212; a term coined not by Alexander, but by software engineers. An antipattern is something that does things wrong, yet is attractive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Letters from Slovakia &#8211; a Photo Update on the Homeless Camp</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/11/17/letters-from-slovakia-a-photo-update-on-the-homeless-camp/</link>
		<comments>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/11/17/letters-from-slovakia-a-photo-update-on-the-homeless-camp/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 06:02:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Mackintosh PRI Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
  Daniel Di&#353;kanec checks out his new edible friends
  Photos &#169; Craig Mackintosh 
I should have shared these pictures back in August, when the pictures were taken, but was too tied up with preparations for the Tenth International Permaculture Conference (IPC10) in Jordan. Though late, I trust you&#8217;ll appreciate them anyway.
If you didn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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