Free Introduction to Permaculture

...on for creating sustainable lifestyles in the city. Learn how to cope with peak oil and the energy descent society of the future. Become the solution! Learn how LA can be a model for sustainable cities. This Free Introduction to Permaculture Class is an outline of the science and art of Permaculture. It will define the term, its history, its founders and the curriculum of the design course certificate, its ethics and foundations. It will describe...

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Saturday Linkages: Beetle Party, Floating Homes and Cilantro

...ks https://t.co/Euw432jyF4 — Root Simple (@rootsimple) June 7, 2018 At the peak of its technological advancement, human civilization became enthralled with a form of machinery known as the “car.” In order to make space for these deadly, highly inefficient machines, large portions of human cities were replaced with uninhabitable concrete barrens. pic.twitter.com/t178MD8GN0 — Nick (@WallaNWalla) June 5, 2018 In essence, if Uber/Lyft trips are replac...

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Post Petroleum Lecture

...f a brand new book The Post Petroleum Survival Guide and Cookbook will be speaking at the Audubon Center at Debs Park on Saturday March 24th as part of the 2007 Sustainable Habitats Lecture Series. The series is put together by permaculture expert David Khan, and those of you who missed the last lecture, raw milk outlaw and dairyman Mark McAfee, missed an engaging, and provocative afternoon. So don’t miss this next one! From Khan’s announcement: A...

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Friday Afternoon Linkages–Some Fun, Some Scary

...rn flour. All great projects for our world’s ongoing “deleveraging”. And, speaking of deleveraging, on the oooooh, scary we’re all going to die side of the equation: David Khan of Edendale Farms has a video from peak oil partisan Matthew Simmons on a run on the gas station scenario that we’ll let you all ponder. And in the really scary department, Dr. Oerjan Gustafsson of Stockholm University, aboard the Russian research ship Jakob Smirnitskyi in...

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Is Industrial Ag to Blame for the Swine Flu?

...d pathogen responsible for this outbreak.” More on this story at Grist and Peak Oil Entrepreneur. At this point we’re in the wild speculation phase of the swine flu narrative and I’ll add that the press does a particularly bad job with anything that has to do with science. However, we’ve been trying to make the point that distributed agriculture, more people tending small numbers of animals, is most likely a safer practice than large factory farms...

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