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Permaculture Action Day is a one-day event that brings together folks from a particular bioregion, neighborhood, school, or cultural audience to create ecological common spaces together – places that help to facilitate the movement towards sustainable living between people and planet. These days both put the hands of its attendees to work ...
The Permaculture Research Institute Australia won the Humanitarian Water & Food Award for 2010 for their initiative "Greening the Desert". [12] The Permaculture Research Institute and founder Geoff Lawton, based in Australia, were the 2015 winners of the Energy Globe Award. [13] The Permaculture Research Institute recognised with UNCCD ...
Permaculture emphasizes patterns of landscape, function, and species assemblies. It determines where these elements should be placed so they can provide maximum benefit to the local environment. Permaculture maximizes synergy of the final design. The focus of permaculture, therefore, is not on individual elements, but rather on the ...
The Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage was founded in 1997 and is located in a rural landscape of northeastern Missouri. This community prides itself on its organic permaculture gardens, natural buildings, alternative energy solutions, and self-governance.
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Defenders of permaculture reply that researchers have concluded it to be a “sustainable alternative to conventional agriculture,” that it “strongly” enhances carbon stocks, soil quality, and biodiversity, making it “an effective tool to promote sustainable agriculture, ensure sustainable production patterns, combat climate change and ...
The Mavis Institute Co-Op is a non-profit year round educational farm specializing in permaculture education based in the grounds of Mavis Manor. The institute focuses on education via Outreach , but is also a working 33 acre farm.
The Class of 1945 Library (1972) is the largest secondary-school library in the world, [2] with a shelf capacity of 250,000 volumes. [98] In 2007, a public vote ranked Louis Kahn 's Brutalist design #80 on the 2007 list of America's Favorite Architecture . [ 99 ]