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An herb garden off the front stoop
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In permaculture, you plant what you use most often closest to the house, things like your herbs.In this video, Patty Silva-Hicks shows us her herb garden located right off her front porch and within steps from the backdoor of her niece and nephew (who live next door) where it ...
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2 months, 3 weeks ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
Permaculture: ecodesign and a return of the bees
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Permaculture is "about creating sustainable human habitats by following nature's patterns." For homeowners Mark Feichtmeir and Karen Boness, the permaculture philosophy guided nearly every design decision in their home and garden in Kenwood, California.In this video, Mark shows us how the concept helped dictate everything from where on ...
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1 year, 3 months ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
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Permaculture: a home that supplies water
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Permaculture is about working with nature toward more individual self-sufficiency, whether it's food, energy or water. Rainwater harvesting involves capturing water during storms for use later in the year. While he's not yet "off the water grid", Mark Feichtmeir of Kenwood Permaculture captures enough rain for nearly half ...
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1 year, 3 months ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
Permaculture: homegrown vegetables, home-pressed olive oil
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Shopping at farmers markets and buying organic are just baby steps in the sustainable food movement. To cut food miles to zero, avoid pesticides and help restore ecosystems, many are turning to permaculture. Originally conceived of as "permanent agriculture", permaculture involves making your yard edible with native plants interspersed with ...
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1 year, 3 months ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
When permaculture moves indoors
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It's best known as a way to landscape in harmony with nature, but permaculture (permanent + agriculture) is also being used as a design concept for sustainable homes. In this video, Mark Feichtmeir of Kenwood Permaculture takes us inside his low-VOC home and shows us his PISE (pneumatically impacted stabilized ...
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1 year, 3 months ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
Sustainable Fairfax: a model backyard
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In a small town outside of San Francisco, residents are working to improve their community's footprint on the environment. The town was one of the first to sign climate change legislation, as well as to pass pesticide and plastic bag bans. The group Sustainable Fairfax is taking those efforts ...
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1 year, 3 months ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
Permaculture house: passive solar as AC
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Permaculture is a basis for design that mimics "the patterns and relationships found in nature". When applied to home temperature control, this means using passive solar for heating and night-flushing for cooling. In this video, permaculture homeowner Mark Feichtmeir shows us how he keeps his home between 68 and 78 ...
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1 year, 3 months ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
The future of green architecture
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Throughout history, homes were built to take advantage of sun, wind and water. The 20th Century: it was assumed that cheap oil would bring light, heat and artificial air. The 21st Century?
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1 year, 3 months ago by: faircompanies faircompanies comments
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A garden-house proposal for the future: Green Box
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A garden-house proposal for the future: Green BoxGreen Box is, according to Spanish architect Luis de Garrido, one of the first "modular garden-house that aims to be totally prefabricated, reusable, transportable, has an infinite life cycle, is bioclimatic, has zero energy consumption, and does not generate waste."Thanks to its ...
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1 year, 4 months ago by: nicolas.boullosa staff comments
To witness Obama's green dream:
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A year in Detroit with goats in a $1 home?My husband is ready to move to Detroit... to witness how hope and change, the Obama way, transform this phantom city. Or that was roughly how he put it the other day in an email where he excitedly described the ...
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1 year, 5 months ago by: kirstendirksen staff 1 comments
