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A Stunning Small Home Made From Hemp…
Hemp is a building material like no other. It has incredible thermal properties, is environmentally friendly, rat and insect proof, fire and earthquake resistant and is an affordable
High Yields: 6 Proven Strategies To Boost Garden Harvests…
We all dream of a garden brimming with delicious abundance, yet the reality often falls short. But there are several simple techniques that even new gardeners can use
10 Money & Resource Saving Tips for Gardeners…
Our approach to frugal gardening isn’t just to look for great deals on gardening products, though that can sometimes be very helpful. Instead, it’s to not buy products
Tour Of An Entire Permaculture Neighborhood in Costa Rica…
Imagine a whole neighborhood full of tropical fruits on every lot, on every embankment & around any corner. Then combine the lush food forest with the most impressive
Couple Builds Energy Efficient Passive Solar Home – Green Building…
In this video we meet Casey & Natasha, a conscious couple who built a passive solar home near Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. In addition to orienting their house to
How To Design A Super Efficient Passive Solar Greenhouse…
How do you design a greenhouse to overcome poor growing conditions, provide a winter space that can cure SADS (Seasonal Affective Disorder) and extend the growing season? In these articles
Invisible Trellis – A Cheap Raised Bed Trellis System…
Check out this video to see how to build a very simple and inexpensive trellis for any size raised bed garden. Using some scrap wood that I already
Incredible Salvaged Off-Grid Tiny House On A Permaculture Farm…
This tiny house has an incredible story to tell. At only 10m2 (or 108 ft2) this home on wheels has been constructed almost entirely from salvaged materials. Despite
The Third Industrial Revolution: A Radical New Sharing Economy…
The global economy is in crisis. The exponential exhaustion of natural resources, declining productivity, slow growth, rising unemployment, and steep inequality, forces us to rethink our economic models.
Young Man’s Inspiring Earthship Home, Building & Living Experience…
In this short video, Jordan shares great tips and advice on how to build a stunning earthship-style home using recycled tires, and earthen cob made from clay, sand
Translucent Swiss Barn / Modern Home Regulates Views & Climate…
In small town on the outskirts of Basel, Switzerland, where the weather is highly changeable and the views are impacted by rural sprawl, architect Tito Herlach designed a
Great Pacific Garbage Patch Is Growing At An Exponential Rate…
New analysis reveals the region contains as much as sixteen times more plastic than previously estimated, with pollution levels increasing exponentially… Delft, the Netherlands, March 22, 2018 –
Barren To Fertile Soil: Using Cover Crops & Sheet Mulching…
Here’s how Steve Cornett from Natures Always Right market garden brought very cheap but insanely effective fertility to his soil…. Sheet mulches and cover crops are an incredible
Couple Turns Skoolie, Short-Bus & Container Into Family Home…
Seven years ago, Jeremy and Mira Thompson quit their jobs and sold their suburban home to hit the road in a short-bus they’d converted into a mobile home.
Tons Of Vegetables Planted In Tiny Garden Food Forest Using Polyculture…
Polyculture is agriculture whereby you grow multiple crops in the same space, providing crop diversity in imitation of the diversity of natural ecosystems, and avoiding large stands of single crops, or monoculture. It includes multi-cropping, intercropping, companion
Healthy Soil Is The Real Key To Feeding The World…
One of the biggest modern myths about agriculture is that organic farming is inherently sustainable. It can be, but it isn’t necessarily. After all, soil erosion from chemical-free
How To Make Worm Tea…
Today Tim Miner from the Edible Learning Lab is going to show us how to extract the bacteria, nutrients, and fungi from worm castings to use elsewhere in
Stinging Nettle – The Most Nutritious Plant On Earth?
When many people hear the two words “Stinging Nettle,” the image that comes to mind is a plant that’s best to be avoided. This is all a bit unfortunate,
MIT Scientists Develop Device That Generates Electricity From Thin Air…
(MIT NEWS – David L. Chandler) – Thermoelectric devices, which can generate power when one side of the device is a different temperature from the other, have been
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