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		<title>Anonymous Took Down Monsanto Website</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2012/01/25/anonymous-took-down-monsanto-website/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:34:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Mackintosh PRI Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s not as good as seeing  all of Monsanto&#8217;s plants and chemicals getting taken &#8216;offline&#8217;, but at least I can get a little mischevious pleasure from learning that Monsanto has been on the hit-list of the Anonymous team. The following video apparently shows how Monsanto was taken offline (Note that I&#8217;m a bit slow [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Plow That Broke the Plains</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/12/05/the-plow-that-broke-the-plains/</link>
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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>Permaculture Pygmies</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/11/10/permaculture-pygmies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 17:16:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xavier Fux</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Xavier Fux

Deep in the jungle of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Pygmy communities had lived for generations as hunter-gatherers. When the Kahuzi Biega National Park was created in 1970 by the Congolese government, the Pygmies and other local communities were expulsed from the forest, their ancestral land, without receiving any compensation or any land [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Maarten Stapper: &#8220;Biological Agriculture &#8211; a Third Way?&#8221; (IPC10 Presentation &#8211; Video)</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/10/25/maarten-stapper-biological-agriculture-a-third-way-ipc10-presentation-video/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 11:25:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Mackintosh PRI Editor</dc:creator>
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If you didn&#8217;t catch it already, be sure to check out the previous post with Dr. Maarten Stapper&#8217;s first IPC10 convergence presentation. And, after several attempts, I finally managed to get his second presentation uploaded &#8212; you can click play above to watch this as well. With decades of experience in the farming [...]]]></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>
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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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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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		<title>Roberto Perez Rivero: &#8220;Permaculture&#8217;s Use of Water in Time of Climate Change &#8211; the Cuban Experience&#8221; (IPC Presentation &#8211; Video)</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/09/28/roberto-perez-rivero-permacultures-use-of-water-in-time-of-climate-change-the-cuban-experience/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 16:26:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Mackintosh PRI Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
  Roberto Perez Rivero gives his presentation at the IPC10, Amman, Jordan
  Photographs &#169; Craig Mackintosh  
Roberto Perez Rivero gave an excellent presentation at the Tenth International Permaculture Conference (IPC10). Watch it below. As the projector wasn&#8217;t the best, you may also want to make use of the links below to download [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Arrested Development</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/09/27/arrested-development/</link>
		<comments>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/09/27/arrested-development/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 09:08:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Monbiot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The wild boar cull should be halted, and we should stop confusing conservation with gardening. 
by George Monbiot: journalist, author, academic and environmental and political activist, United Kingdom.
Is the United Kingdom the most zoophobic nation in Europe? Do we, in other words, have an unusually intense fear of wild animals? 
We’ve certainly been less successful [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spreading the Seeds of Consciousness</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/09/06/spreading-the-seeds-of-consciousness/</link>
		<comments>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/09/06/spreading-the-seeds-of-consciousness/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2011 15:48:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Drew Sullivan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[School children take part in Nendo Dango in Argentina&#180;s Rio Negro Province, Patagonia. 

As part of a reforestation program around Argentina&#180;s Eco Capital, El Bols&#243;n, 21 schools have transformed their assembly halls into assembly lines for the production of over 25,000 seed clay balls utilizing the ancient technique of Nendo Dango. The method, re-invented by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Power of International Law to Create the New World &#8211; An Interview with Polly Higgins</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/08/18/the-power-of-international-law-to-create-the-new-world-an-interview-with-polly-higgins/</link>
		<comments>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/08/18/the-power-of-international-law-to-create-the-new-world-an-interview-with-polly-higgins/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Aug 2011 15:52:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maddy Harland</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Editor&#8217;s Note: At time of writing, Polly is on a speaking tour of Australia and New Zealand &#8212; check out dates and locations here.
Maddy Harland meets Polly Higgins, a barrister who is campaigning for the United Nations to adopt an additional crime against peace: Ecocide.
by Maddy Harland, editor of Permaculture magazine &#8211; inspiration for sustainable [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Agroforestry/Alleycropping (Video)</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/08/09/agroforestryalleycropping-video/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 13:34:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Mackintosh PRI Editor</dc:creator>
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Part I (other parts further below)
Looking for a transitional form of agriculture as we try to wean ourselves off fossil-fuel based farming systems into smaller scaled, localised and sustainable ways of providing for ourselves? Enter, alleycropping &#8212; the practice of planting rows of trees (ideally on contour) through fields to create [...]]]></description>
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