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As the Global Financial Crisis continues to be felt, why not use this summer to build your skills and become more self reliant?
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With the impacts of global warming, peak oil, water scarcity, unfair trade, war and and natural disasters affecting millions globally there is an increasing demand for trained permaculturists to be able to give assistance in areas of need.
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Peter Shenstone, Director, Strategic Planning for Planet Ark discusses his vision for the future:"One of the key problems and probably the biggest at root is that we are disconnected from nature. We have drifted off into the mental realm and we are livi...
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Mountaintop Removal, Eastern Tennessee
“We abuse the land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we begin to use it with love and respect.”— ALDO LEOPOLD, A Sand County Almanac ...
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Author Fritjof Capra once wrote that humans working for change act as the immune system of the planet. As our planet becomes increasingly sicker, two extraordinary and inspiring Australian sisters are pulling out all stops and becoming part of the immun...
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I’ve had the most success this year with yellow tomatoes .... they’re so well camouflaged by the nasturtium flowers that even I have trouble finding them. Meanwhile someone spotted my bowerbirds on The Biggest Loser.
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Click on the above image to view Mel on Catalyst - allow time for the video to download
Very few men or women have the strength of character to endure the harsh climate of Antartica - one season would be hard enough, but imagine doing it for extended p...
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I nearly gave up on tomatoes this year. After snow in November and a cold wet start to Summer, it seemed deluded to even think of planting out all the seedlings I'd nurtured from my saved Tigerella seed.
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When we moved to humid Katoomba from dry Melbourne, I was surprised that certain furniture and clothing quickly gathered mould and that mustiness seemed more common. I am a researcher and writer so my books are prized possessions. Also Frans deals in bo...
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This week even more homes in the Blue Mountains began having their solar panels installed - much to the delight of homeowners who are watching their electricity meters run backwards! With over 125 homeowners applying to be part of the Community Program,...
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Graeme Roth, of Blackheath, describes how he got hooked on bees and joined the Nepean Beekeepers' Association ... more to come soon on how he got me hooked too ....
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Jessie Girard of Katoomba asked several times to do a PDC with adults in September 2008. Her mum agreed and her school principal was exacting about whether Jessie would learn something of value because she would have to miss six Mondays of school.
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