Tagged with Permaculture

Shamans and scholars tell us that the close of this great cycle of the Mayan calendar is not the cue for apocalypse but rather a new beginning. Yet scientists are now predicting a 4 degree temperature rise, which will indeed mean the end of civilization as we know it, if not of human life on earth.  The time we live in is a crucial turning point.  What can we do? (more)

In this interview we explore forest gardening, ecological herbalism, transition towns, permaculture, plants and place with ayurvedic live-food nutritionist, therapeutic and shamanic herbalist Walter “Shantree” Kacera.  (more)

I have come to think that one of the things the soon-to-be-deindustrializing world most needs just now is green wizards: individuals who are willing to take on the responsibility to learn, practice, and thoroughly master a set of unpopular but valuable skills - the skills of the old appropriate tech movement - and share them with their neighbors. (more)

Jackie told me about the teas she grew, about her homemade jams and boysenberry wines, about the shiitakes she'd planted on a pile of logs, about the rainwater she harvested. She pointedly described permaculture as "the things your grandparents knew and your parents forgot." (more)

"What's permaculture?" I asked. He responded: "It's about sharing with other people and learning to live in harmony with the land. I guess it's a little like survivalism, but with a sense of responsibility to nature and humanity." I liked that idea. (more)

Few things are more frustrating than tending vegetable plants only to see them mowed down overnight by a marauding band of insects. Here's what you can do. (more)

Biologists calls the current loss of biodiversity "the 6^th Extinction." This is not the first time that life on earth almost exhausted its available resources before discovering how to jump to a higher order of complexity. Will we figure out how to make a similar transition? (more)