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Holistic Management: Integrative Desision Making Framework
on Aug 28, 2009 in advanced permaculture design decision holistic management Carbon Farming Integrative Decision Making FrameworkOften times designers, thinkers, engineers, planers, and other people engaged in disciplines that value thorough, well thought out plans for any kind of enterprise or endeavor, succumb to a type of paralysis. Cyc...

on Aug 18, 2009 in TEHI bioregional congress Booyacacao E.O. Wilson biodiversity Total Ecological Health Index.Total Ecological Health index is a way of quantifying the health of an ecosystem, or entire bioregion. Scientific methods like soil testing, air quality testing, water quality testing, species diversity index, human foo...

Greenhorn and Carbon Farming
on Aug 7, 2009 in Greenhorn Carbon Farming Radio Greenhorn Radio interviews Carbon Farming Course convener Ethan RolandOn today's episode of Greenhorn Radio, Severine von Tscharner Fleming interviewed Ethan Roland (a primary organizer of the Carbon Farming Course, and proprietor of Appleseed Permac...

Banking away the waves
on Jul 10, 2009 in Financial Permaculture Banking gaia university Surfer, activist and Gaia University Associate in Green Business Kyle Thierman shows the connections between the world of international finance and pollution, climate change and poverty.Rock on bro...

Carbon Rich Farming Worldwatch
on Jul 2, 2009 in worldwatch cfctn carbon negative Carbon Farming Worldwatch institute, a well known think tank focusing on hard science, meticulous research and solution oriented analysis is pointing towards decentralized, carbon farming oriented agricultural solutions. The systems called for in the 09 Land Use R...

Transition Hohenwald Unleashing
on Jun 6, 2009 in transition hohenwald green Sitting in the Emporium Cafe listening to a local blues band the buzz of optimistic conversation is filling the Cafe. WE are all gathered to celebrate the unleashing of the 25th Transition Town in USA. Hohenwald is unique, being one of the only tra...

Quilt of the Bioregional Congress
on Jun 5, 2009 in quilt bioregional congress The Farm The Turtle Island QuiltStarted by two women on the organizing committee of the 1st North American Bioregional Congress that took place in the Ozark Bioregion in 1984. The women, sent fabric out to bioreigons across the continent asking for each reg...

Ecosystem Investing and Green Ventures
on May 22, 2009 in slideshare Chocolate appleseed permaculture Booyacacao green venture Financial Permaculture finance nemawashi Yesterday, Ethan Roland of Appleseed Permaculture and I presented at the 2009 Green Ventures Conference at Farleigh Dickinson University. Our presentation sparked a lively discussion centering around the entrepreneurial imperative of regenerative bus...

Dubai Could be going green
on May 14, 2009 in dubai green cities From the Solari FeedFor a couple years now I have dreamed of seeing Dubai take the steps needed to create an oasis in the desert, harvesting sun and water and creating a verdant metropolis ...It looks like, perhaps, the Shieks have been hearing the s...