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Transition Bondi goes on an adventure to the NSW far south coast & visits John Champagne @ Brogo Permaculture Garden . John shows us how he has implemented permaculture principles to create an abundant food garden in a temperate region. Michele Margolis (Editor of the Permaculture Diary & Calendar), shows Transition Bondi how amazingly abundant an urban permaculture garden [...]

Join Darren Doherty as he goes over Carbon Farming and Keyline Design. Darren shares how to create a landscape that receives water,sequesters carbon and supports livestock and plants. Find out more by visiting http://www.EarthActionMentor.org

Become a Seedsaver. Seeds change at each season when you save them. Because Traditional varieties have generally a wide genetic base they tend to change to some extend they adapt more readily to local conditions then corporately bred seed that have been bred to be uniform. Shot at the Pompidou Centre art gallery. Michel and Jude [...]

Shake Shake The Mango Tree: Sesame Street

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Visit http://www.crfg.org/chapters/golden_gate/scionex.htm, http://cornucopiafoodforest.wordpress.com, http://richmondgrows.org and http://jasonferrera.com

WHEN: Saturday, January 21, 2012
12 noon to 3:00 PM

WHERE: Laney College Student Center Bldg
900 Fallon Street
Oakland, CA
(1 block from Lake Merritt BART station)

Visit http://www.crfg.org/chapters/golden_gate/scionex.htm to learn more about the Scion Exchange. This video show how to collect scion wood for exchange.

Andrew Faust spoke at the Sustainability Forum in an atrium at OWS days after Zucotti Park was evicted.

Andrew Faust Permaculture Designer: HomeBiome.com
Costa Boutsikaris Filmmaker: TerraVisus.com

Bryon Waibel runs what he believes is the world’s only urban beekeeping store. It’s called Her Majesty’s Secret Beekeeper and Waibel, who uses the handle 006, does seem to believe that he/ the store/ urban beekeepers are serving a cause.

“It would not surprise me at all if the future of the honeybee itself is in urban [...]

Featuring Helen Atthowe, BioDesign Farm, Stevensville, MT. Weed ‘Em and Reap Part 2 was produced by Oregon State University, for more information go to http://www.weedemandreap.org

Linda Hogan and Terry Daniels of hOur World talk about Time Banks in a presentation for PODER in San Francisco October 11, 2011. Time Banks are a way to get and receive services without total dependence on cash. Their roots reach deep into our history and saved many during the Depression of the 1930′s. Time [...]

The Eastern Agricultural Complex are a group of crops that were domesticated in Eastern North American before the arrival of corn, beans, and squash from Mexico. In 2011 Jonathan and I grew out a bunch of them to learn more about this fascinating but largely neglected group of native crops. Source: Perennial Solutions

Press Conference from 2011 AGU Fall Meeting – Tue. 11 a.m. PST Even if we are able to limit global warming to two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial times, Earth could likely see drastic and rapid climate change this century , new research by NASA’s Jim Hansen suggests. Paleoclimate data paints a different picture than models about the [...]

“utopia requires its residents to behave like robots”, Nicholas Carr

Video produced by MATUSA (Manus Tumbuna Save association), to raise awareness on how Manus Islanders in Papua New Guinea are beeing affected by sea level rising and climate change. Filmed by Ngenge Sasa, Lou Island, PNG.

Warning that “American democracy in endangered,” Sen. Bernie Sanders on Thursday proposed a constitutional amendment to overturn a Supreme Court ruling that allowed unrestricted and secret campaign spending by corporations on U.S. elections. The first constitutional amendment ever proposed by Sanders during his two decades in Congress would reverse the narrow 5-to-4 ruling in Citizens United [...]

Cooperation Makes it Happen – Sesame Street

Biggest Wednesday : Condition Black

Never in the history of surfing has the ocean roared as hard and as full-on as Wednesday the 28th January 1998. All the elements came together to create some of the biggest rideable surf in living history… Footage of 30 to 50ft waves being ridden.

The Permaculture Credit Union pools the financial resources of people who believe in the ethics of Permaculture – care of the earth, care of people, and reinvestment of surplus for the betterment of both. We apply those resources to earth-friendly and socially responsible loans and investments. The history of financial institutions is one of focus [...]