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		<title>Food Forests, Part 2: Looking for Clues</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:09:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris McLeod</dc:creator>
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As people become urbanised, they start looking at the world in urban ways. What does that car or house say about that person? How does that person&#8217;s occupation affect their social standing? People may not admit it, but they understand the answers to these questions intuitively. As permaculturalists, we need to apply [...]]]></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>The Plow That Broke the Plains</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 11:31:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Mackintosh PRI Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love history. As they say, if you don&#8217;t learn from it, you&#8217;re destined to repeat it. The video below, circa 1937, is a fascinating look at how men forsook the crucial observational stage when making the best laid plans of mice and men and in doing so took an enormous swathe of stable prairie, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Dehydration and Rehydration of the Australian Landscape</title>
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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>Permaculture in Jordan Video Series &#8211; Part I</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/11/15/permaculture-in-jordan-video-series-part-i/</link>
		<comments>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/11/15/permaculture-in-jordan-video-series-part-i/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 15:45:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Mackintosh PRI Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This excellent little video, put together by Anselm Ibing, introduces a new  series on sustainable land use in Jordan. It kicks off with a concise look at historical aspects relating to Jordan&#8217;s present ecological situation. I&#8217;m now left looking forward to Part II&#8230;.

  

Further Reading:

Letters from Jordan: &#8216;Greening the Desert &#8211; the Sequel&#8217; [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/11/11/jordan-valley-permaculture-project-update-post-ipc-happenings/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 16:01:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Lewin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
  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>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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		<title>Owen Hablutzel: &#8220;Water and Transformation in Dryland Systems &#8211; Resilience Science &amp; Keyline Application&#8221; (IPC10 Presentation &#8211; Video)</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/11/04/owen-hablutzel-water-and-transformation-in-dryland-systems-resilience-science-keyline-application-ipc10-presentation-video/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 17:03:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Mackintosh PRI Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
  

Owen&#8217;s talk here is quite fascinating. While most in permaculture will recognise the importance of mainframe design,  Owen&#8217;s talk goes a step further, and dips headlong into mainframe concepts as well. If you&#8217;re one of those right-side brain type people who just loves thinking a little above and beyond and immersing yourself [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poll Indicates Lack of Confidence in Murray-Darling Basin Authority Plans</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/10/10/poll-indicates-lack-of-confidence-in-murray-darling-basin-authority-plans/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2011 12:03:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian Douglas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Ian Douglas

Initial results of an ongoing on-line poll on water policy in Australia raise concerns that the majority of Australians are far from convinced that the draft Basin Plan, soon to be released by the Murray-Darling Basin Authority, will be successful in its aims.

The poll, coordinated by Fair Water Use Australia, currently indicates that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tony Rinaudo: &#8220;Against the odds: Reversing desertification in arid and semi arid lands&#8221; (IPC Presentation – Video)</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/10/03/tony-rinaudo-against-the-odds-reversing-desertification-in-arid-and-semi-arid-lands-ipc-presentation-video/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 13:32:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Mackintosh PRI Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
  

Tony Rinaudo&#8217;s IPC10 conference presentation was one of the highlights of the event for three good reasons &#8212; 1) because of the scale of impact his Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR) work has achieved (more than 30,000 km&#178; of re-greened, regenerated land to date); 2) the utter simplicity &#8212; and thus doability &#8212; [...]]]></description>
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