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The Permaculture Research Institute of AustraliaThis is an RSS-based news service (the content does not come from my own site, and I have no control over it or responsibility for it). For other news listings see the news page. Monsanto Has Us Walking the Gangplank, and Wants to Give That Final PushMonsanto is starting an advocacy campaign in Australia, calling for greater acceptance of their GMO wares. Aside from all the environmental and personal health issues involved with GMOs, Monsanto is also conveniently ignoring that mother of all wake up calls, peak oil. Without cheap energy, their large scale globalised monocrop systems will collapse.It seems we [...] Last Chance for Early Bird Discount on October PDCPermaculture design and planning has become extremely relevant for all land owners and managers. Correct planning and design can make the difference between a well managed productive property and one that has ongoing soil, water and other management issues to contend with. For those without acreage and only our own backyards, it enables us to [...] Confessions of An ‘Economic Hitman’, and Other AnimationsWith words taken from a Democracy Now Interview with John Perkins, a self-styled ‘Economic Hitman’, the studioJOHO crew have made a very cool animation to showcase the fantastic services we the wealthy offer two-thirds world countries. Watching this led me to check out other work from these video magicians – excellent stuff to [...] GMOs: Jeffrey Smith Interview and MoreThis video is longish, at almost an hour, but it’s a great candid interview by Alex Bogusky with anti-GMO hero Jeffrey Smith, with lots of shocking information that you need to know about GMOs. If you can, take the time to listen and digest.From YouTube:International best-selling author Jeffrey M Smith (Seeds of Deception, GMO Trilogy, [...] Internship Program a Big Hit – So Not Many Places Left….Photo © copyright Craig MackintoshThe January 2011 internship course is now fully booked with four people waitlisted in case of cancellations (for a course for which everyone has either paid in full or paid a deposit to hold their place). This course is proving to be the most popular of all courses held [...] This Year’s Australasian Permaculture Convergence (APC10) and PDC Shaping Up to Be a Hit!From a few days ago:HOLLYWOOD star Daryl Hannah flies into Cairns tomorrow while Virgin founder Sir Richard Branson’s eccentric nephew, Ned RocknRoll hits town today.The environmentally minded duo plan to spend a month in the Far North for a two week permaculture design course and the Australasian Permaculture Convergence.The events will be at Kuranda.Mr RocknRoll, [...] Permaculture Persistance Pays Off in WalesI just want to congratulate the Lammas team, who after four years of battling local government have finally received approval to turn their ambitions of building a sustainable community in Wales into reality. Well done team. Do us proud!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPhvaBpJV2k Digg this! Share this on Reddit Stumble upon something good? Share it on StumbleUpon Share this on del.icio.us Share this on [...] The Power of Enterprise Budgets: Permaculture, Holistic Management, and Financial PlanningResource alert: At bottom of this blog post is a download option for more than a thousand enterprise budgets.Permaculture designers: It’s time to get serious about profitability. Farmers & Greenhorns: You already know what I’m talking about. I’ve been working on an integrated ecological farm design for the Ashokan Center in the Hudson River Valley [...] The Farmers Are At It AgainThere they go again, making liars out of us, undermining our critique that their industry is contributing to the wholesale destruction of water, soil, air and biodiversity. You know what the farmers have done, don’t you? They’ve only gone and realised that a diverse range of endemic, perennial, drought-proof fodder crops are better [...] Permaculture Soils DVD – It’s a Wrap!Geoff Lawton and Frank GapinskiI just came back from filming all the links to Geoff Lawton’s Permaculture Soils DVD over the weekend. It’s a wrap – finally – with all principal photography completed and now it’s just a matter of finishing off the edit. Squeezing it all [...] Return to News permaculture read
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