Dance and entertainment creates a building material. Live acoustic music fuels the barefoot mud stomping dance which creates a spectacle, connects people to earth and creates an unsurpassed building material. … Read more
Curso Certificado Diseño Permacultur
- Date: 15 – 24 March 2017
- Language:
- Spanish
- Location: Ubicación Sede: Centro Ecoturístico del Lago www.centroecoturisticodellago.com Carretera Huasca - San Miguel Regla Km 2, San Miguel Regla, Huasca, Hgo. Ubicación: https://goo.gl/maps/fTr7T, Mexico
PERMACULTURA es un sistema integral basado en varias ciencias que se enfoca en diseñar entornos autosustentables y crear procesos regenerativos, ambientales y sociales. ¡Forma parte del proyecto de restauración planetaria más grande en la historia de la humanidad! APROVECHA LA PROMOCIÓN Ven a vivir la experiencia, a aprender una de las disciplinas más ricas, completas y propositivas que está creando e impulsando movimientos de regeneración ambiental y social en todas las escalas y en todos … Read more
Deep Ecology and Mindful Gardening
- Date: 19 February – 5 March 2017
- Language:
- English
- Location: Thailand
Deepen our connection with nature through our head, heart, hands and spirit. Join us for this two weeks contemplative learning where we will learn together What is Deep Ecology as a philosophy, as a way to see and interpret life, as an approach to deepen our connection with nature and as a way of living. This two weeks program is designed to have balance of the learning through different channel of our being: Head: Theoretical learning, critical thinking, debate, discussion, deep … Read more
Gaia Ashram Teacher Internship
- Date: 4 June – 1 October 2017
- Language:
- English
- Location: Thailand
Are you a Permaculturalist? Ecovillage Designer? Deep Ecologist? Builder? Gardener? Natural product maker? Healer? Herbalist? Nutritionist? Shaman? Dancer? Artist? Yogi & Yogini? Are you looking for a community to live to practice your knowledge and skills, a space to share your knowledge and skills with others, a place to use your knowledge and skills to create positive impact on earth? Then, you might be interested in this program! What is Gaia Ashram Teacher Internship … Read more
Food Forests Sustainable agriculture in the form of forestry
There are successful experiences around the world in designing agricultural systems as an imitation of natural eco-systems. The idea is simple yet elegant: by implementing ecological principles in agriculture, we can design a system that functions sustainably like a natural eco-system, and at the same time yields products that are useful for humans, like an agricultural system. Some main characteristics of a food forests are: * High level and a variety of production of food, fiber, animal … Read more
Passive Solar Greenhouse Produce More Food Locally With Less Energy
Groundswell Community Network in British Columbia, Canada have constructed a passive solar greenhouse that greatly extends the growing season for a wide range of crops and reduces energy consumption to a minimum. The north side of the building is insulated and built with a high thermal mass to store heat and the glazed structure is placed on the south side. Surplus heat collected during the day is feed into a heat store beneath the floor. There are also photo-voltaic and solar thermal panels … Read more
Foraging Wild Edible Plants There is great food under our noses...
Traditionally, in every place around the globe, people knew the local wild edible plants and their various uses. This knowledge was derived from traditions, which were formed in a constant process of trial and error, and were passed on meticulously from generation to generation. We can choose to re-learn this tradition, get to know and forage our local wild edible plants! Foraging ads diversity to our diet, is highly nutritional and accessible and is a source for food which is 100% local. … Read more
Fog Nets Harvesting Pure Water from Fog
In the arid hills around Lima people forced onto dry marginal land are using basic fine nylon nets stretched between wooden poles to collect water. As fog and mists blow through the mesh condensation occurs and the water droplets run down the mesh to be collected in a holding tank. This simple technique enables people to grow crops and helps them transform their lives. … Read more
How to Build A Camping Stove This is a short video that will show you how to build a camping stove only using a can, a knife and some rubbing alcohol.
It is a very easy process where one simply cuts a metal can into two pieces and then using a few dents and some rubbing alcohol a camping stove can be built. Watch the video for a clearer explanation on how to do this. … Read more
Just Eat It A Food Waste Story
Film directors Jen Rustemeyer and Grant Baldwin have turned their eye to food waste from farm to fridge and have produced a documentary 'Just Eat It' to highlight the issue and demonstrate that what is currently dumped can provide perfectly nutritious food. They stop buying groceries and survive exclusively on discarded food, challenging the myths behind corporate food production and marketing. Living off rescued goods they demonstrate that this is one environmental problem that can be easily … Read more
