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	<title>Permaculture Research InstituteGabions &#187; Permaculture Research Institute</title>
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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>The Dehydration and Rehydration of the Australian Landscape</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 17:13:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Campbell Wilson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Article and diagrams copyright &#169; Cam Wilson
This is a pictorial tour of the degradation and dehydration process that the Australian landscape went through post European settlement, along with one of the major aims of Peter Andrews&#8217; Natural Sequence Farming approach, namely the rehydration of the Australian landscape.

 If you were one of the early explorers, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Let the Water Do the Work: Induced Meandering, an Evolving Method for Restoring Incised Channels</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2011 18:04:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Owen Hablutzel</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://permaculture.org.au/?p=5932</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The volume reviewed below comes highly recommended for all Permaculturists working in or around any water channels, and particularly on the broad-acre. While the methods happen to apply most immediately in drylands, they will apply directly anywhere that erosion, down-cutting, rapid gully formation, and other forms of channel incision occur. Keep in mind that these [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Earthworks Course &#8211; Zaytuna Farm, The Channon, May 2011</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/05/12/earthworks-course-zaytuna-farm-the-channon-may-2011/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2011 15:25:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Grace</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://permaculture.org.au/?p=5603</guid>
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The sun works on an 11 year cycle over which it radiates heat at varying levels upon the earth. The cycle is observed by counting the frequency and placement of sunspots visible on the sun. Currently we are at a peak of the cycle whereby the sun is radiating a maximum amount of heat and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Al Baydha Project, Saudi Arabia: Fence vs. Earth Berm</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/05/09/al-baydha-project-saudi-arabia-fence-vs-earth-berm/</link>
		<comments>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/05/09/al-baydha-project-saudi-arabia-fence-vs-earth-berm/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2011 09:05:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neal Spackman</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://permaculture.org.au/?p=5592</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Editor&#8217;s Note: This is an update on the Al Baydha project we introduced here.
In order to demonstrate our agricultural system, we need to keep goats, camels, and sheep off the site. Initially we were planning to build a standard chain-link fence, but decided we could do better. Instead, we are putting up a big earth [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Permaculture Design for Horses, People &amp; Habitat</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/02/16/permaculture-design-for-horses-people-habitat/</link>
		<comments>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/02/16/permaculture-design-for-horses-people-habitat/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 15:54:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Huggins</dc:creator>
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Introduction
 I want to share with you a few things about a permaculture design project I finished in late October 2010. Details of the design, some details of working with clients on design projects, basic costing and what to be aware of when doing so. I also outline  how I put [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Permaculture at the Al-Baydha Project in Saudi Arabia &#8211; Neal Spackman, Video 1</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/01/14/permaculture-at-the-al-baydha-project-in-saudi-arabia-neal-spackman-video-1/</link>
		<comments>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/01/14/permaculture-at-the-al-baydha-project-in-saudi-arabia-neal-spackman-video-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jan 2011 18:19:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Mackintosh PRI Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you remember Geoff&#8217;s recent Saudi Arabia consultation? Well, left behind in the Kingdom as project manager to implement the work is Neal Spackman. Neal has kindly followed up on my request for reports, providing the video and images below. After the video I&#8217;ll give you a little more swivel-chair commentary based on info I&#8217;ve [...]]]></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>
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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>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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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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		<title>Strawberry Fields Update &#8211; Flood Protection and Water Control in Ethiopia</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2010/10/08/strawberry-fields-update-flood-protection-and-water-control-in-ethiopia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Oct 2010 14:03:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex McCausland</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the biggest challenges of doing Permaculture in a semi-arid place like Konso is the drought-flood hydrology besets in degraded dry-lands. The whole of south Ethiopia has now been so deforested, added to the fact that the global climate is getting completely messed up, that rainfall is now completely unpredictable. The old folks are [...]]]></description>
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