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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>
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		<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>
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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>John Hardy: My Green School Dream</title>
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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>Permaculture at The Farm</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2012/01/13/permaculture-at-the-farm/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 12:25:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Albert Bates</dc:creator>
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        Former stockbroker Brian Bankston now calls himself the &#8220;Keyline Cowboy&#8221; after a carbon farming course at The Farm&#8217;s Ecovillage Training Center transformed his life. He quit his job, bought a keyline plow and compost tea brewer, and moved to The Farm.


Climate Prophylaxis
For the past 10 years or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UMass Permaculture Gardens Win National Award and $25,000 in Gifts</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/12/14/umass-permaculture-gardens-win-national-award-and-25000-in-gifts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 18:17:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Mackintosh PRI Editor</dc:creator>
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As an addition to the last post, where Ryan Harb tells us all about his work getting permaculture demonstration gardens growing in universities in the U.S. of A., here&#8217;s a great update, and excellent news, on this project:


Date: Wednesday, Nov. 30
  What: UMass Permaculture Wins Real Food Challenge Award
  Where: University of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ryan Harb: Permaculture at U.S. Universities &#8211; UMass Amherst Case Study (IPC Presentation &#8211; Video)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 15:52:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Mackintosh PRI Editor</dc:creator>
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  Permaculture at U.S. Universities &#8211; UMass Amherst Case Study
Ryan Harb gave this 1-hour talk at the Tenth International Permaculture Convergence (IPC10) in the Wadi Rum desert in southern Jordan in September 2011. Here&#8217;s a little background to get you interested:

UMass Amherst transformed a 1/4 grass lawn on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Greening the Desert Video &#8211; now also with French Subtitles</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/12/02/greening-the-desert-video-now-also-with-french-subtitles/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 18:10:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Mackintosh PRI Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many thanks to Jeremy, Christina, Erik, Lamia and Kristen for all the work that went into creating the French translation subtitle file for both Parts I &#38; II of the Greening the Desert video below. As a result, I&#8217;ve been able to upload a version suitable for your French-speaking friends and family, should you have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Planetary Permaculture Pilgrimage – Day Five</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/11/17/planetary-permaculture-pilgrimage-day-five/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 15:22:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tamara Griffiths</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Tamara Griffiths and Delvin Solkinson

The ultimate compliment to a teacher is when your students make you redundant. &#8212; Geoff Lawton.

Day 5
The day started with storytelling. With twists and turns, laughs and
  straight faces, Geoff tells us a bit about the origin of permaculture,
steeping us in a history rich with challenges and successes.
It was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jordan Valley Permaculture Project Update: Post IPC Happenings</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/11/11/jordan-valley-permaculture-project-update-post-ipc-happenings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 16:01:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Lewin</dc:creator>
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  An aerial view of the site
Although the landscape here could be seen as a model for scarcity, what there is an abundance of is rocks. The baked dusty earth barely passes for soil and during the summer there isn&#8217;t rain here for over six months. With valuable agricultural resources seemingly at a minimum, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Murad Alkufash: &#8220;Marda Permaculture Farm: Planting Seeds of Hope in the Occupied Territories&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 14:48:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Mackintosh PRI Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Murad Alkufash is a dedicated permaculturist. Considering where he lives, he must be. Or, perhaps because of where he lives  he must be &#8212; as permaculture is a truly logical, and the only really lasting, solution to the problems surrounding him. Murad lives in the West Bank, and directly under one of the largest [...]]]></description>
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