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		<title>The Business of Consultation &#8211; David Spicer &amp; Nick Huggins Out on the Job</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/07/22/the-business-of-consultation-david-spicer-nick-huggins-out-on-the-job/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2011 15:42:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Huggins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Nick Huggins

I just purchased a farm in the New South Wales Southern Tablelands, 30min south of Goulburn and 50min east of Canberra, the Australian Capital, and a good friend of mine and of permaculture, David Spicer, has set his sights on the development of his consultancy business in the town of Tumut at the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Lesson from the Cheonggyecheon Stream Restoration Project</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2011 14:03:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Mackintosh PRI Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This Korean tale of an ancient stream which got paved over to make a freeway, before becoming a nightmare of congestion and stress for inhabitants, and then being painstakingly restored, at great expense, back into a stream and pedestrian zone again, is an excellent case for permaculture observation, planning, ethics and design. 

  

A [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Building Systems for the Developing World – Perspective and Opportunity</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/05/21/building-systems-for-the-developing-world-perspective-and-opportunity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2011 20:16:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Weatherbee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Note by Owen Hablutzel: This article from Doug Weatherbee speaks to why the skills and approach of Permaculture are becoming increasingly recognized among international development communities as being necessary and often more useful on-the-ground than conventional &#8216;development&#8217; approaches for achieving often complex and practical goals in the difficult circumstances often encountered where people, livelihoods, basic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First Earth – A Cob Building Film for Inspiration</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/03/17/first-earth-a-cob-building-film-for-inspiration/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2011 13:41:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Oyvind Holmstad</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by &#216;yvind Holmstad
First Earth: Uncompromising Ecological Architecture by David Sheen is meant as an inspirational film about earthen buildings, or more specifically, what they call &#8216;cob&#8217;. Cob is the oldest and easiest way of building from earth. You can find information and relevant literature here, and inspiring pictures here.
The architect Rolf Jacobsen at Gaia Tj&#248;me, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Design Exercises in Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) Courses</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2011 12:11:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff Lawton</dc:creator>
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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>Indoor Farm in Tokyo</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/01/13/indoor-farm-in-tokyo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jan 2011 19:48:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cecilia Macaulay</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Cecilia Macaulay

  Conference room, Head office, Pasona Group Inc.
With all my Japan projects bedded down for the winter, I set out for some sightseeing in my final weekend in Tokyo (Dec 4th) with a visit to the head office of the Pasona Group Inc.


Pasona is a stroll away from Tokyo station, a kind [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Integrated Design</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2010/10/06/integrated-design/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Oct 2010 15:24:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Oyvind Holmstad</dc:creator>
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  Photo &#169; Craig Mackintosh
Could it be useful sometimes to replace the name permaculture with something else, because some people have wrong associations with the word? I&#8217;ve heard people discussing this, but they didn&#8217;t come up with any alternative. Here I have a suggestion: &#8220;integrated design&#8221;. 
 In a way, permaculture principle eight &#8211; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Make an Egg Mobile</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2010/09/03/how-to-make-an-egg-mobile/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:42:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff Lawton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, we wanted to make an egg mobile for egg laying chickens to follow behind our dairy cows and fertilise the pasture while scratching the manure that the cows leave behind. The chickens also leave behind their own manure whilst free ranging across pasture. This technique allows the chickens to supplement their diet and produce [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Decoding Pattern</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2010/07/31/decoding-pattern/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 19:36:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adrian Buckley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Adrian Buckley

The modern-day education system is almost entirely bent on creating an army of university professors and other specialists. We have been systematically trained to specialize, and as a result we approach problem-solving by studying parts of a whole, where the connections between them are commonly ignored. 





       [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From Little Things Big Things Grow</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2010/07/30/from-little-things-big-things-grow/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:03:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Lees</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever grown your own food? Studies have shown that people who eat organic produce from their own garden have an increased sense of well being and good health.
  In September 2007 I met a group of motivated, hardcore volunteer gardeners. When I say hardcore, some of these guys where involved with the [...]]]></description>
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