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The basic principle of a trombe: Water falling through a Venturi system sucks in air and compresses the air-bubbles, which are extracted at the lowest point of the system. Water pressure will drive the water up again to the height of the working head. Referring to the figure at the right, water enters the system from the reservoir through the flume, D. It flows up to C, then pours down to B

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Gas-absorption refrigerator The absorption refrigerator is a refrigerator that utilizes a heat source to provide the energy needed to drive the cooling system rather than being dependent on electricity to run a compressor. These refrigerators are popular where electricity is unreliable, costly, or unavailable, or where surplus heat is available, e.g., from turbine exhausts or industrial processes

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by David HolmgrenDavid Holmgren: Collected writings & Presentations 1978-2006 — Article Six http://www.holmgren.com.au This brief article was written in 1991 but apart from circulation at PDCs has not been published. It has a strong link to my thinking at the time about indigenous agriculture in Australia expressed in article 4 ABORIGINAL LAND USEThe permaculture texts, particularly Permaculture

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A REVIEW OF RURAL LAND USE IN VICTORIAby David HolmgrenDavid Holmgren: Collected writings & Presentations 1978-2006 — Article Five http://www.holmgren.com.au This submission written in May 1991 was a response to the Victorian government's Review of Rural Land Use (draft 1991) which was commissioned to primarily address long standing concerns in Victoria about the loss of prime agricultural land

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by David HolmgrenDavid Holmgren: Collected writings & Presentations 1978-2006 — Article Four http://www.holmgren.com.au This edited article is based on lecture notes from a presentation to Landscape Architecture, Planning and Design students at RMIT (University of Technology) Melbourne in March 1990, 91 and 92 as part of a course unit called Environmental Context. In presenting my version of the

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By Brad Lancaster
First published in the Permaculture International Journal Issue No. 60 Sept ~ Nov 1996 When the wells of Mr. Phiri’s neighbours run dry, his still have water. This Zimbabwean farmer has created a food garden amongst dry-lands and is teaching others how to harvest water successfully.Last summer, Brad Lancaster went to meet him. A long, slow bus trip into the southern and driest

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By Titus Alexander
First published in the Permaculture International Journal Issue No. 60 Sept ~ Nov 1996 Whenever global power-brokers meet nowadays, worldwide grassroots movements are growing nearby. Ever since The Other Economic Summit (TOES) in London in 1984, annual meetings of the G7*, World Bank and IMF have been shadowed by alternative summits and stunts to highlight global inequality,

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By Frances Lang and Kayti Denham
First published in the Permaculture International Journal Issue No. 60 Sept ~ Nov 1996 Gourmet GardensGetting the PulseThe Pigeon Pea (Cajanus cajan syn Cajanus indicus) ~ also known as the Congo pea or reel gram - is one of the highest protein foods grown throughout the world and is loved equally by humans, animals and birds alike. In India, pigeon pea is one of

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... TO THE SKILLS OF READING LANDSCAPE AND THEIR APPLICATION TO PERMACULTURE CONSULTANCYby David HolmgrenDavid Holmgren: Collected writings & Presentations 1978-2006 — Article Three http://www.holmgren.com.au This paper was presented to the First International Permaculture Conference held at Wauchope NSW in October 1984 along with a slide show of personal landscape readings. These ideas emerged

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An interview with Hazel HendersonBy David KupferFirst published in the Permaculture International Journal Issue No. 60 Sept ~ Nov 1996 For Twenty-Five Years, Hazel Henderson has consistently and convincingly challenged modern economic theory. Her razor wit, provocative style, insight, and self-studied economics perspective set her apart from conventional economists, as does her architecture for

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First published in the Permaculture International Journal Issue No. 60 Sept ~ Nov 1996 WICHITA WILD Large areas of a city park were replanted to native vegetation to a habitat for wildlife as a native effort of various civic groups in Toledo, Iowa, USA. They are now monitoring bird populations within the restored area. A similar project on a 'larger scale, 'Wichita Wild', has been developed by

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How to entice frogs into your backyard ... By wildlife writer Justin Harrison
First published in the Permaculture International Journal Issue No. 60 Sept ~ Nov 1996 On a recent trek through Kakadu National Park in Northern Territory, Australia, many wonders caught my imagination. One group of animals, however, astounded me with its diversity and sheer numbers. Frogs! Millions of them in one of

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By Enrique Hidalgo(Lonley peraculturist in Bolivia)
First published in the Permaculture International Journal Issue No. 60 Sept ~ Nov 1996 In the Andes Mountains of Bolivia in South America, two Norwegians are realising a dream to establish a permaculture community to assist the indigenous Aymara Indians of the High Plains country.The Pachakamac Eco-Holistic Movement (PEM) was started in Norway

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Removing the sheen from the Mainstream
First published in the Permaculture International Journal Issue No. 60 Sept ~ Nov 1996 LEVEL HEADED WORLD“Modern technological agriculture is basd on a scientific logic that we are expected to unquestioningly accept. Yet ‘new’ and ‘scientific’ don't necessarily mean better. A few years ago, I was attending a conference in central India. A group of American

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By David Haenke and Betrice Briggs
First published in the Permaculture International Journal Issue No. 60 Sept ~ Nov 1996 An overviewA bioregion is a life region. A geographical area whose rough boundaries are determined by non-human, rather than human forces. Bioregions are distinguished from one another by characteristic flora, fauna, water, climate, rocks, soils, landforms, and the human

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By Rob CampbellPhotographs by Debbie Baike
First published in the Permaculture International Journal Issue No. 60 Sept ~ Nov 1996 When people ask Ron Watkins to help solve a single issue or problem on their farm, he usually gives them a dozen or more other issues to consider. If they are talking of pumping water out of a farm to try and fix salinity, Ron will throw in factors such as microclimate

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The passing of Permaculture elder Joe Polaischerby David Holgrem (Ref: http://www.holmgren.com.au/html/Joe/Joe.html)Joe explaining permaculture concepts to tour participants at Rainbow Valley Farm Feb 2004Joe bare foot explaining Shiitake mushroom production during tour of Rainbow Valley Farm Feb 2004Joe dealing with the basics at Rainbow Valley Farm May 2007Joe demonstrating a pole lath

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On 15/02/2008, at 4:48 PM, Christoff Schneider wrote:Liebe Freunde,Donnerstag um 3h30 in der Früh starb Joe friedvoll in den Armen seiner Frau Trish.Lieber Joe, mein väterlicher Freund!Danke für alles was ich von dir lernen durfte.Ich wünsche dir viel liebe und harmonie auf deinem neuem Weg.christoff"mother nature doesn´t care if the hunter kills the beast or the beast kills the hunter. at the

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On 14/02/2008, Robyn Francis wrote:I've just received the sad news that Joe Polaischer passed away at 3.30 this morning.Joe's had a brain tumour removed late last year, which grew back at a rapid rate over the past 2 months and has claimed his life.Joe's passing will be deeply felt by permaculture friends and colleagues around the world, and especially in the German-speaking countries of Europe

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Permaculture (permanent agriculture) is the conscious design and maintenance of agriculturally productive ecosystems which have the diversity, stability, and resilience of natural ecosystems. It is the harmonious integration of landscape and people providing their food, energy, shelter, and other material and non-material needs in a sustainable way. Without permanent agriculture there is no

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by David HolmgrenDavid Holmgren: Collected writings & Presentations 1978-2006 - Article Two http://www.holmgren.com.au This article was written during my first trip outside of Australia in April 1979 and was published in the newsletter of the then recently formed New Zealand Permaculture Association. It records some of my earliest thoughts about new ecosystem evolution which has been such a

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No-Dig garden beds No dig gardens are easy. There is a good video by Robin Francis called the Mandala Garden. I have had most success with beds that start on a stable edge and can be extended rather than beds in the center of a grasses area. No-dig gardening was pioneer and founded by Esther Deans, she wrote fabulous books about No-dig gardening and has been to visit our site and although we do

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by David HolmgrenDavid Holmgren: Collected writings & Presentations 1978-2006 - Article One http://www.holmgren.com.au This somewhat flippant article was written in 1978 while I was living in the bush in Jackys Marsh, Tasmania. It uses local example to illustrate the ecological approach of permaculture to understanding and managing weeds providing an indication of my thinking on this subject

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How I started keeping bees On my way to self-sufficiency (I already have a garden and some chickens) I read about keeping bees. And I was hooked by the idea of getting wax for candles and sweets for me. A couple of years ago I contacted an old beekeeper through my mother and bought 12 hives with bees. My idea of beekeeping was to put some bee homes in the garden and once a year I go there and

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We were shocked to recieved some news that our good friend Joe Polaischer of Rainbow Valley Farm at Matakana in New Zealand "...has had a stroke and had a brain tumour removed last night and is still recovering in intensive care in Auckland...."We have since recieved good news that Joe is "really good and recovering well".The followig message from Joe Polaischer came today (relayed by Finn):Kia

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The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns. All the stuff in our lives, beginning from the extraction of the resources to make it, through its production, sale, use and disposal, affects communities at home and abroad, yet most of this is hidden from view. The Story of Stuff exposes the connections between a huge

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by Joe Polaischer588 Matakana Valley Road, R.D. 5, Matakana, New Zealand, Tel. 09 422 7432, http://www.rainbowvalleyfarm.co.nz/Waste is a human invention, no ecological system knows waste, and everything that is higher up in the food chain is eaten by something lower down with the decomposers in the soil doing the ultimate recycling job. To understand waste better it helps to do a simple

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By Megan QuinnHavana, Cuba -- At the Organipónico de Alamar, a neighborhood agriculture project, a workers' collective runs a large urban farm, a produce market and a restaurant. Hand tools and human labor replace oil-driven machinery. Worm cultivation and composting create productive soil. Drip irrigation conserves water, and the diverse, multi-hued produce provides the community with a rainbow

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By Mohammed Ayesh(MSc in Soil & Irrigation), Water & Environment ResearcherJordan is an arid country with limited water resources. The available renewable fresh water resources dropped drastically to an annual per capita share of 155 m3 in recent years compared to 3400 m3/cap/year in 1946. It is considered also as one of the 10 poorest countries worldwide in water resources (Countries with less

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Commissioned in August 2000 by the Japanese aid organization NICCOD to work in association with a Jordanian NGO JOHUD Sindhu and Geoff Lawton's first visit to Kafrin involved the design of a flat 10 acre, highly salted, very alkaline, piece of land in the Dead Sea Valley, 400m below sea level and just a few kilometers from the Palestinian border. The aim was to demonstrate sustainable farming

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By (Author Unknown) First published in Permaculture - The Journal Of The National Permaculture Association (Issue 9, April 1982) The idea is to plant the world's classical honey-producing species on 19 acres of land here in Maryborough, Victoria. The plantings would be in positions and densities calculated to maximise year-round honey production from stationary hives. Part of this con- cept is

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By (Author Unknown)Compost microorganisms not only convert organic material into humus, but they also degrade toxic chemicals into simpler, benign, organic molecules. These chemicals include gasoline, diesel fuel, jet fuel, oil, grease, wood preservatives, PCBs, coal gasification wastes, refinery wastes, insecticides, herbicides, TNT, and other explosives. (59)In one experiment in which compost

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Seed Saving with Jude and Michael Fanton First Published in Permaculture International Journal Issue No 60 Sept ~ Nov 1996 Seed collecting is a simple and pleasant task that is an integral part of farming, forestry and horticultural pursuits. Here are some hints on broadscale collection. Simple equipment can be used to Collect seeds - baskets, canvas, sacks, secateurs, paper bags, even the

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by Declan and Margitt Kennedy First published in Permaculture - The Journal Of The National Permaculture Association (Issue 9, April 1982) In April 1981 Declan and Margitt Kennedy, architects and urban planners with a major interest in ecology were asked to design a small settlement of houses for workers of firm "Sanfonas Industries" in Cacapava, State of Sao Paulo, Brazil.After a move of the

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by Bill Mollisonby Declan and Margitt Kennedy First published in Permaculture - The Journal Of The National Permaculture Association (Issue 9, April 1982)The aims are: to give staple foods to give high levels of nutrition to provide manures from plants and small animals to save on water to give some edible oils. An essential is to bring in mulch as grasses and leaves and not to cultivate

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By I.L. CarstairsFirst published in Permaculture - The Journal Of The National Permaculture Association (Issue 9, April 1982)Dam Preparation:The waterworks at the site of the Mary- borough Appropriate Technology Centre have moved into a new phase of excitement and productivity recently. The three new dams (20 x 20 x 1.5m) — Nos. 3, 4 and 5 — were sunk in March, 1981, and various hardy clovers and

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by Joe Polaischer588 Matakana Valley Road, R.D. 5, Matakana, New Zealand, Tel. 09 422 7432 http://www.rainbowvalleyfarm.co.nz/Water is not just only an amazing chemical (H2O) it is the lifeblood of our planet earth. Population growth and development have polluted and depleted the world’s water supply – experts say the wars of the 21st Century will be fought over oil and water. Every eight

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By Author unknownFirst published in the Permaculture International Journal Issue No. 60 Sept ~ Nov 1996 When the Vietnamese military burnt the opium fields of the H'Mong people it may have placated the US Government, but it also destroyed the H'Mong's livelihood. Western governments, especially the US, are making a big show of ending drug trading, with television footage of burning opium fields

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By Marcel Werps BScThe phenomenon of weeds is an interesting one. They invariably comes about when the soil has become severely depleted. So, for instance, the thistle typically comes up when a paddock has been too heavily grazed, as was pointed out to us in an initial course of plant ecology. When I realized that, it seemed to me that the thorns on roses must similarly be the result of some

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First published in Permaculture - The Journal Of The National Permaculture Association (Issue 9, April 1982)While some flee the city others stay to transform if. Gil and Meredith Freeman pool their income with two other families in an economic union which provides economic sustenance to Us members while they work on projects for which pay packets have not, as yet been invented.The Freeman house (

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by Author unknown First published in Permaculture - The Journal Of The National Permaculture Association (Issue 9, April 1982)For centuries men have been able to meet their housing needs in ways that harmonised with their surroundings. In areas of minimum rainfall homes have traditionally been built of earth, mud brick walls supporting mud brick vaulted and domed roofs. While in forested areas

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By Peter BrewFirst published in Permaculture - The Journal Of The National Permaculture Association (Issue 9, April 1982)To Australians, palms are an underutilised resource. Unlike other cultures whose way of life is totally dependent on palm products, we tend to bypass the palm in our discussions of tree crops. Hopefully all this will change as we become more familiar with these fascinating

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by Joe Polaischer588 Matakana Valley Road, R.D. 5, Matakana, New Zealand, Tel. 09 422 7432 http://www.rainbowvalleyfarm.co.nz/Wishful thinking, false hopes and denial, nothing will help, the fact is that most of the world’s easy to get oil has now been consumed. Oil has been the cheapest and most convenient energy resource ever discovered by humans and we are totally hooked on it. Will we be

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Editors Note (Dec 07): How is this project looking today? Does anyone have recent photos or a report on this site or an article how this site has developed in the last 25 years? Please send an email to editor[at]permacultureglobalreport.com (replace [at] with @) by Author unknown First published in Permaculture The Journal Of The National Permaculture Association (Issue 9, April 1982) At the

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by Joe Polaischer588 Matakana Valley Road, R.D. 5, Matakana, New Zealand, Tel. 09 422 7432, http://www.rainbowvalleyfarm.co.nz/Food1 Grow your own food 2 Eat seasonal food3 Avoid food miles, buy local and when possible organic4 Support Farmers Markets, local farmers and growers5 Buy unpackaged fruit and vegetables6 Avoid highly processed foods7 Buy food without additives or preservatives8

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By John FargherFirst published in Permaculture - The Journal Of The National Permaculture Association (Issue 9, April 1982)The growth of vegetable and perennial crops is a great problem in arid areas where growing seasons are short, water is limited and the climate is severe. From observation in various areas of the middle-east, one solution could be trench farming. Plant growth in any depression

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By Ross ReadingFirst published in Permaculture - The Journal Of The National Permaculture Association (Issue 9, April 1982)The word 'chinampas' is usually translated as "floating gardens" and they are presently to be found in what is now a suburb of Mexico City called Xochimilco. Much of the city's supply of flowers and to some extent vegetables are grown there. In fact, Mexico City, the third

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By Steve Payne First published in Permaculture International Journal Issue No. 60: Sept-Nov 1996 Whether we love or hate the Olympic Games; they will go on. So how can we change them for the better? Permaculture International Journal editor Steve Payne decided to look at the much-touted green plans for Sydney 2000 and find out what was green; what was not; and what Permaculture had to offer.

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Permaculture 1. $8 post paid anywhere in Australia from Tagari Publications, P.O. Box 96, Stanley, 7331. 128 pages on origins, directions, principles, self- sufficiency, site planning, system establishment, animals, fungi. Cheap Plants and Gardens by Margaret Knight. Published by Horan, Wall and Walker, Sydney. $3.95 ($4.95 including packing and post), P.O. Box 8, Surry Hill, 2010. Cheap Plants

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Permaculture International Journal Issue No. 60 Sept ~ Nov 1996 NORTH AMERICA – GREENHOUSE FINALLY'OFFICIAL'The US Government has recognised the existence of the Greenhouse Effect by calling for tough international action aimed at cutting greenhouse gases. In a reversal of its former position, the US has called for legally binding targets for the reduction of Greenhouse emissions to be set by

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Over 25 years of Permaculture knowledge available online for free. Every day we will scan old Permaculture articles and post them in "The Permaculture Archives" of the "Permaculture Global Report" . Just click on the year and month in the left hand menue or on the link below the cover of each magazine to go directly to a specific issue. Currently scanning — September 1996April 1982Permaculture —

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The Permaculture Global Report invites you to become a contributing author to our network specializing in Permaculture related information and news. We seek topical experts who are also savvy at writing reports on Permaculture projects and building online readership.We want people who can write with a clear, strong, competent, and honest voice. If you have a passion, knowledge, or expertise in a

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By Joe Polaischer588 Matakana Valley Road, R.D. 5, Matakana, New Zealand, Tel. 09 422 7432, http://www.rainbowvalleyfarm.co.nz/The United Nations declared the years 2005 – 2014 as the Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD). Here in New Zealand the Decade was launched at the Eco-show in Waitakere City last year. The NZ coordinating committee’s priority is to better communicate

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by Joe Polaischer588 Matakana Valley Road, R.D. 5, Matakana, New Zealand, Tel. 09 422 7432, http://www.rainbowvalleyfarm.co.nz/The Earth’s eco-system cannot sustain current levels of economic activity and material consumption. Current resource harvesting and waste generation deplete nature faster than it can regenerate. This is called the “ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT” (EF) and can be measured - this

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