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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>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>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2012/02/02/bustan-qaraaqa-west-bank-seeks-two-permaculture-interns/</link>
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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>Arts Factory Backpackers &#8211; Photo Update</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2012/02/01/arts-factory-backpackers-photo-update/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 12:07:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff Lawton</dc:creator>
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I was visiting Byron Bay on my last Sunday off in conditions where we have had a large amount of rain and some very unsettled weather with lots of storms. With the winds from the north, the surf conditions where very messy and unfavorable, as also were the fishing conditions, the sea was really unsettled [...]]]></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>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>
				<category><![CDATA[Alternatives to Political Systems]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://permaculture.org.au/?p=6951</guid>
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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>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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  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>Gold Coast Permaculture Prepares for Another Great Year Ahead</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2012/01/19/gold-coast-permaculture-prepares-for-another-great-year-ahead/</link>
		<comments>http://permaculture.org.au/2012/01/19/gold-coast-permaculture-prepares-for-another-great-year-ahead/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 17:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Permaculture Gold Coast</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Vanessa Fernandes

  Dani, Mel, Judy, Kristy and Pond in the house garden
2011 has been seminal in the development of permaculture on the Gold Coast, NSW, Australia. The incorporation of Gold Coast Permaculture (GCP) early in the year has seen the organisation and the concept become very much integrated into the Gold Coast community [...]]]></description>
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