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	<title>Permaculture Research InstituteBiological Cleaning &#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>Update on Permaculture Pygmies &#8211; Introducing Solar Ovens, Water Filter and SODIS</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2012/02/01/update-on-permaculture-pygmies-introducing-solar-ovens-water-filter-and-sodis/</link>
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		<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>Urban Pool-to-Pond Conversion &#8211; Two-Year Progress Report</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/10/28/urban-pool-to-pond-conversion-two-year-progress-report/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 12:20:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephanie Ladwig-Cooper</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re writing on-going articles about the many aspects of this urban permaculture project in a Mediterranean climate, here in California, now two years underway. Today&#8217;s article: pool-to-pond conversion &#8212; complete! 
by Stephanie Ladwig-Cooper

My husband and I have been actively working on an urban 2/3 acre permaculture project for two years this month. We began the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brad Lancaster: &#8220;Urban Water Harvesting Systems&#8221; (IPC Presentation &#8211; Video)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 11:15:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Mackintosh PRI Editor</dc:creator>
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    Brad Lancaster presents at the IPC10, Amman, Jordan, Sept. 2011
  Photographs &#169; Craig Mackintosh
Brad of harvestingrainwater.com has well-honed presentation skills &#8212; urban water harvesting has never been more interesting and compelling than after Brad has laid it all before you, and injected no small measure of fun and humour into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Permaculture in Nyumbani Village, the Birth of PRI Kenya, and a New Course With Warren Brush</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/08/09/permaculture-in-nyumbani-village-the-birth-of-pri-kenya-and-a-new-course-with-warren-brush/</link>
		<comments>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/08/09/permaculture-in-nyumbani-village-the-birth-of-pri-kenya-and-a-new-course-with-warren-brush/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Aug 2011 15:07:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicholas Syano</dc:creator>
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Nyumbani Village, which is a program of the Children of God Relief Institute (COGRI) caring for both HIV infected and affected children, aims to establish a self-sustaining, community-based residential village serving children orphaned as a result of HIV/AIDS. This is being achieved through providing a family like settling where the orphans are under stewardship of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Tale of Two Tokyos &#8211; Domestic Robots and Permaculture Bathrooms</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/08/03/a-tale-of-two-tokyos-domestic-robots-and-permaculture-bathrooms/</link>
		<comments>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/08/03/a-tale-of-two-tokyos-domestic-robots-and-permaculture-bathrooms/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2011 11:04:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cecilia Macaulay</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Written a year ago by Cecilia Macaulay

  Robot and charcoal-fired tea ceremony brazier
Roving, roving.  I&#8217;m now staying in Central Tokyo, at my usual home with the Ota family.
This morning I reached for the broom, I got a surprise. Professor Ota came running out &#34;No No!&#34;
  He bent down, fiddled with something on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hemp for Victory?</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/06/23/hemp-for-victory/</link>
		<comments>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/06/23/hemp-for-victory/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jun 2011 17:23:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Mackintosh PRI Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I figure this video will stimulate some potentially useful discussion. It features portions of an interesting WWII-era production, titled Hemp for Victory, made by the U.S. government to encourage U.S. farmers into the cultivation of hemp to fill  the escalating demand for industrial fibre during the war. This was not too long after the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Listen to the Beavers</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/04/18/listen-to-the-beavers/</link>
		<comments>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/04/18/listen-to-the-beavers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2011 11:07:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob Avis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A 13 year old in Saskatoon Canada put this together.

  

Further Reading:

 The Dam Letter

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		<title>Permaculture in Public Spaces</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/03/19/permaculture-in-public-spaces/</link>
		<comments>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/03/19/permaculture-in-public-spaces/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2011 18:27:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lindsay Dailey</dc:creator>
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Lake County, California, is a rural area on the edge of the San Francisco Bay Area. Though it&#8217;s surrounded by extremely wealthy areas, Lake County is unique; it is one of the least densely populated counties in the state of California, with one of the highest rates of poverty and unemployment. The agricultural industries that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>City Kids Move to the Country – Part V</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/03/18/city-kids-move-to-the-country-part-v/</link>
		<comments>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/03/18/city-kids-move-to-the-country-part-v/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2011 16:41:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicola Chatham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pit-falls, projects and laughs from our permaculture journey &#8211; Part 5

 &#8220;What&#8217;s that smell?&#8221; asks Chris.
&#8220;I don&#8217;t know. It&#8217;s really familiar. It smells like&#8230; cat food,&#8221; I reply. 
&#8220;It smells like shit,&#8221; he says. 

It&#8217;s 2:30am. We&#8217;ve propped ourselves up in bed. It&#8217;s dark. The foul smell mingled with my dreams but now we&#8217;re both [...]]]></description>
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