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	<title>Permaculture Research InstituteAid Projects &#187; Permaculture Research Institute</title>
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		<title>Earthship Huts &#8211; Low Hanging Fruit in the Fight Against Poverty</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2012/02/08/earthship-huts-low-hanging-fruit-in-the-fight-against-poverty/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:02:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Feineigle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[  

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>Rwandan Orphanage Director Expresses Gratitude for Support to Study Permaculture</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:28:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Mackintosh PRI Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some of you may remember our call-out for donation support for Victor Monroy (see paragraphs below the video here), an organic agricultural engineer who is director of a large orphanage in Rwanda. Well, a couple of you kindly donated to help get Victor along to a PDC taught by PRI PDC Teacher, Warren Brush, in [...]]]></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>
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		<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>Bustan Qaraaqa, West Bank, Seeks Two Permaculture Interns</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:46:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alice Gray</dc:creator>
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Bustan Qaraaqa is a community permaculture project in the Palestinian West Bank.  The project consists of an experimental permaculture farm in the town of Beit Sahour close to the historic city of Bethlehem, and several community projects where staff and volunteers work together with Palestinian community groups and individuals to implement permaculture initiatives that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Extended Permaculture Design Course in the Negev</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:23:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alice Gray</dc:creator>
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What: Extended Permaculture Design Course
  When: The itinerary is based on weeks of 5 days where the weekends are free for advancing individual projects, rest or travel in Israel. Program starts on the 11th of March and ends on 15th of August 2012.
  Where: The course and accommodations will take place at the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Update on Permaculture Pygmies &#8211; Introducing Solar Ovens, Water Filter and SODIS</title>
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		<comments>http://permaculture.org.au/2012/02/01/update-on-permaculture-pygmies-introducing-solar-ovens-water-filter-and-sodis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:27:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xavier Fux</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We built a solar oven made out of cardboard, and showed the pygmies how to purify water through a solar disinfection unit (the SODIS System). We also showed them how to make a filter with a bucket full of sand, gravel and active carbon.
by Xavier Fux

Who said last days weren&#8217;t productive? Before leaving, we wanted [...]]]></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>A Step and a Stride: From Academia to Abundance</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2012/01/17/a-step-and-a-stride-from-academia-to-abundance/</link>
		<comments>http://permaculture.org.au/2012/01/17/a-step-and-a-stride-from-academia-to-abundance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 14:20:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Graham Calder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How exactly did I get here? When did I embark on this journey of abundance? Here I am looking back on my life, and seeing how it all started&#8230;.
  Raised on 75 acres of subsistence farm I was an unlikely candidate to moving to the big city of Montreal at age 20. After five [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://permaculture.org.au/2012/01/16/john-hardy-my-green-school-dream/#comments</comments>
		<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>Greeks Reclaim the Land to Ease the Pain of Economic Austerity</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2012/01/13/greeks-reclaim-the-land-to-ease-the-pain-of-economic-austerity/</link>
		<comments>http://permaculture.org.au/2012/01/13/greeks-reclaim-the-land-to-ease-the-pain-of-economic-austerity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 14:08:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Beatrice Yannacopoulou</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Editor&#8217;s Note: The recently-formed PRI Hellas (Greece) team are making good progress in difficult times, as evidenced by this nice piece from The Ecologist below. If you want to support this work, whilst having a great learning experience in an incredibly beautiful location, be sure to check out their April 23 &#8211; 29, 2012, Intensive [...]]]></description>
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