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• Kirstie Stramler wrote a new blog post: Soil Food Web in Bay Area   10 months, 2 weeks ago · View

  
  

  As the first printing of the Permaculture Designer’s manual was going out, a revolution in soil science was emerging. Unfortunately, that revolution was destined to be swept under the rug.

  Until now! Dr. Elaine Ingham is coming to the Bay! Elaine is being hosted by Sweet Soil in San Rafael to teach a 5-day Soil Food Web intensive [...]

• Kirstie Stramler wrote a new blog post: LA Arboretum Permaculture Design Course Filling Up!   1 year, 7 months ago · View

  The upcoming Los Angeles Arboretum Permaculture Design Course will be the first ever taught there.   Flyer Credit:  Caitlin Bergman Course dates are 8 Saturdays, Oct 2 – Nov20, and & 1 Sunday, Nov 21.   The first 8 days of the course will be held in the facilities and on the grounds of the Los Angeles Arboretum, and [...]

• Kirstie Stramler wrote a new blog post: California Greywater Update from Greywater Action Co-Founder Laura Allen   1 year, 9 months ago · View

  Laura Allen, Co-founder of Greywater Action, at a packed Greywater Info Session for the Community of Petaluma, mid-July 2010. Photo Credit:  Ron and Laura Paul of Greywater Marin. Progress in California Regulation and in Inspection Procedures Laura Allen, on progress made in California Greywater regulation, on recent Greywater Action strategies and successes, and expectations for the future of [...]

• Kirstie Stramler wrote a new blog post: NEW VIDEOS: Gavin Raders at Pathways to Sustainable Self Governance Workshop   1 year, 9 months ago · View

  New videos uploaded from  Pathways to Sustainable Self Governance , the Detroit USSF2010 workshop organized by Permaculture TV .   Excerpt from workshop description:
  

  This workshop outlines a vision for a democratic, worker-owned, advanced industrial ecology society. We seek pathways to provide the burgeoning food education/justice movement with the tools to become economically sustainable, and to link the emerging green industrial [...]

• Kirstie Stramler wrote a new blog post: 9e10 Significant Digits to Regenerate Earth’s Ecosystem   1 year, 10 months ago · View

  Consider any single human individual on the planet.  That gives you the  numerator:  1. Now consider the estimated sum of all human individuals on the planet.  That gives you the  denominator:  9 billion.  For clarity, ease of computation, and to avoid writing all of the 9 zeroes in the number 9 billion, use calculator shorthand  scientific notation for [...]