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		<title>How to Prepare a Beneficial Microorganism Mixture</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2012/02/04/how-to-prepare-a-beneficial-microorganism-mixture/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:45:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Niva Kay</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many have heard of EM mixtures, sold worldwide with cultures of effective microorganisms, that  due to their symbiotic relationships with each other can benefit the microorganisms&#8217; ecosystem in our soils, compost piles and toilets. They are known to boost yield and speed the composting process and are sold worldwide for their positive effect.
You can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Biochar Miracle</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:04:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sunny Soleil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Carbon pirates bury black gold&#8230; so future generations will be richer. &#8211; John Rogers

Biochar is being promoted as the soil saving miracle of the century promising outrageously high yields of crops as well as removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. The first video &#8216;The Promise of Biochar&#8217; explains what biochar is, how valuable it is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Holistic Management Training in Northern NSW</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2012/01/25/holistic-management-training-in-northern-nsw/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 11:29:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Nekrasov</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
  

What better way to become more of a danger to the modern realm of earth destruction and technological torment than to team up Permaculture knowledge with Holistic Management training.
  Teaming HM with Permaculture has an exceptionally powerful effect on building soils, repairing large landscapes and assisting with an holistic framework of decision [...]]]></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>
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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>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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		<description><![CDATA[


        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>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>
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		<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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		<title>Hugelkultur: Composting Whole Trees With Ease</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2012/01/04/hugelkultur-composting-whole-trees-with-ease/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 13:33:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Feineigle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is it?
 Hugelkultur is a composting method that uses large pieces of rotting wood as the centerpiece for long term humus building decomposition. The decomposition process takes place below the ground, while at the same time allowing you to cultivate the raised, or sunken, hugelkultur bed. This allows the plants to take advantage of [...]]]></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>The Dehydration and Rehydration of the Australian Landscape</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/11/23/the-dehydration-and-rehydration-of-the-australian-landscape/</link>
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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>Letters from Jordan: &#8216;Greening the Desert &#8211; the Sequel&#8217; Site Contrasts Against Jordan Insanities</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/11/08/letters-from-jordan-greening-the-desert-the-sequel-site-contrasts-against-jordan-insanities/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 16:34:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Mackintosh PRI Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
  Staring into the eyes of the future of Jordan, one wonders how things could be&#8230;.
  All Photographs &#169; Craig Mackintosh  

  
  
  Al Jazeera&#8217;s very recent feature of the new &#8216;Greening the Desert&#8217; site
Introduction
Why did the photojournalist cross the road? It sounds like the beginning of a [...]]]></description>
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