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Willi Paul and Stacia Torborg have launched an online Permaculture jobs service. I encourage you to check it out and join if you're so inclined. Here is a description from their "About Us" tab:

PermaculturExchange.com is an employment model for the Transition underway that utilizes the integrity and sustainable ethics and principles in permaculture.

We have expanded the original land-design focus for permaculture projects into new business…

http://www.thepermaculturepodcast.com/2011/musical-interlude-an-interview-with-mr-big-mountain/

Listen to my rap interpretation of an "Interview with a Mountain"!

Hello Fellow Permaculturalists!

Please check out the latest Guilded Gardens Permaculture Blog Post.

The latest installment features great info and pics for making your own medicinal oil and tea from superstar herbs in bloom right now:  …

Hello Fellow Permaculturalists!

Please check out my new Permaculture blog at erikblender.blogspot.com

This week is a demonstration and discussion of moving labor-loving chickens around the garden to revitalize spaces, focusing on the specific development of an Apple Guild in Portland, OR at no…

Inspiration Green website offers a ton of information on various subjects, building tips using different materials and various blogs.  This is the page about building with plastic bottles, many are reclaimed apparently from oceans and trash.  I would love a greenhouse!

http://inspirationgreen.org/plastic-bottle-homes.html

Highlights of the Portland Plant List

• The Native Plant Lists provide information about associated habitats, flowering seasons, and whether some of these plants pose additional wildfire risk. Only plants from the Native Plant List may be planted in Environmental Overlay Zones and Pleasant Valley Natural…

Photos of how to build a Reciprocal Frame Roof which can be used for homes, and other structures.

http://www.thatroundhouse.info/reciframes.htm…

Lammas, an eco village based upon Permaculture design principals in SW Wales. Very inspiring and amazing!! Tons of information on the process of setting up the village, permitting, design issues, land issues and how to create a sustainable living from the land. Residents have been able to achieve a 70 to 80% land-based livelihood living in carbon-neutral houses which blend into the landscape.…

Hardiness Zones Map comparing 1990 and 2006

http://www.raintreenursery.com/map_usdaHardiness.html

About an hour and a half drive from San Christobal into the rural hills of Chiapas, I visited a permaculture farm called Ha O Mek Ka (translation: Alpha to Omega), in a town called Tzajala . The farm, founded and run by Sylviane, a permaculturist originally from France now married to a native of Chiapas, was started in the 1980s, years before the Zapatista revolution. Because of the time invested, Sylviane's foreign origin no longer casts her as an outsider, and…

At the southern end of Waterfront Park in Corvallis, beyond the skate park, a small shaded grassy area provides bicyclers and pedestrians with a place to rest. The park is oddly shaped, its east and south boundaries created by the confluence of the…

My second blog, Northern Baja and the Mexican Revolution, offered a brief history of the Mexican revolution of 1910, lead by Emiliano Zapata in support of agrarian reform and indigenous rights. Journeying to the southern-most state of Mexico, Chiapas, revealed a side of Mexico where the Zapatista movement is still very much alive.…

As a teenager, I read Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath, which sparked my interest in my own family’s experience with the Dust Bowl. I heard from my parents that my grandfather came to California during the Great Depression, but I never heard any details about the experience directly from him. I caught my grandfather one evening after Thanksgiving dinner and asked him about…