Archive for the "PERMACULTURE" Category

Culture of The Machine

is a page I have recently created on Facebook. Come join it, post relevant topics, and be sure to watch the two most recent video postings: a physician named Helen Caldicott explains the nuclear matrix and the threat to the planet we’ve unwittingly brought to bear. http://www.facebook.com/pages/Culture-of-The-Machine/202441633108454

8th Annual Water Conservation Showcase in San Francisco

Last week had International Water Day. Under appropriately existing heavy rain, I went to the 8th Annual  Water Conservation Showcase presented by EBMUD (East Bay Municipal Utility District), PG & E (Pacific Gas and Electric) and the USGBC (United States Green Building Council). This year’s topic was Saving Water in Existing Buildings. Since I am [...]

Water Quotes for You and Me

In Honor of International Water Day   We’re all downstream. -motto adopted by Margaret & Jim Drescher, Windhorse Farm, Nova Scotia Man’s history is woven into waterways, for not only did he live beside them, but he used them as highways for hunting, exploration, and trade. Water assured his welfare, its absence meant migration or death, [...]

Berkeley Ecology Center

I recently visited the Eco House in Berkeley, California. The project is part of the Ecology Center, an awesome initiative that works tirelessly to bring awareness to integral city living with projects that touch on all aspects of true sustainability: ecological, cultural, social and economic. The Center has been around since 1969, a true part [...]

Independent Farmers Tending Urban Lots

There’s a growing movement to take back our yards and direct them towards food production. In Portland, a group of would-be farmers decided on a different business model: tend other people’s lots in an urban setting, as part of a collective farming effort. Brilliant! Read a review here; or visit Your Backyard Farmer to learn [...]

Research Finds Banana Peels Can Efficiently Remove Toxic Metals From Wastewater

by Jessica Dailey, 03/11/11  (just had to share it- it is too good- GS) “We’ve seen a lot of interesting and inexpensive green methods of cleaning wastewater: algae, sewage eating poo-gloos, and indoor wetlands, just to name a few. But a new method discovered by a group of scientists in Brazil takes the cake for [...]

Get Your Seeds!

the tide is on to get everyone into self-reliance.. we all have to commit to get others to grow food in their backyards.. check out seattle Time’s garden blog entry on seed updates, to get started. ;P

A New Generation Of Farmers Emerges

The NYTimes reports that an increasing number of young adults are taking the plunge and doing what is necessary to re-engage our citizenry to support local farm production. In New Food Culture, a Young Generation of Farmers Emerges (Excerpt) by ISOLDE RAFTERY Published: March 5, 2011 CORVALLIS, Ore. — For years, Tyler Jones, a livestock [...]

United Nations: Eco-Farming Can Double Food Production

Mark Bittman of the NYTimes reports that the U.N. has released a study demonstrating a need to shift to sustainable agriculture practices, and a need to re-educate the citizenry on how to adopt simple means to grow some of their food needs. Follow these links to the study; and, the press release.

GARDENING FOR A BETTER TOMORROW

Home Scale Permaculture and Biodynamics Workshop and Event at DIG Gardens- Saturday March 19 , 2011 $30 Add some new practical skills and awareness to your gardening experience! Biodynamics originated in Europe in the 1920′s, while permaculture arose in Australia in the 1970′s. Both are based in an extraordinary depth of earth-honoring wisdom. Both have [...]