Permaculture Green Practices

Updates:

Permaculture Plant Database

http://permacultureplantdata.com/

The Natural Capital™ Plant Database is a repository of temperate climate plant information for ecological design...

As of January, 2016, the data includes contributions from 2822 users from 70 countries

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Permaculture and Sustainability

Permaculture Principles / Pathways / Intro

Open Permaculture / Open Permaculture Magazine

PermaDesign / Harvest the Rain - Nate Downey

Perma fundamentals - via Facebook

Permaculture explained - Facebook vid

Regenerative Leadership Institute

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http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Watershed_Restoration_Practices

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Bill Mollison quotes --- Permaculture quotes

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Permaculture for Our Times

2015

"As California confronts historic drought, TreePeople community initiatives in LA push for water savings programs"

http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-drought-trees-20150612-story.html#page=1 -- http://www.scpr.org/news/2015/06/12/52345/urban-trees-dying-in-drought-what-you-need-to-know/ -- http://www.scpr.org/programs/take-two/2015/06/12/43259/tree-care-extra-tips-to-keep-your-trees-green/

This interview with astute words of advice from our GreenPolicy friend, Andy Lipkis, is worth listening to... Moving Los Angeles Toward Water Independence Andy draws from his permaculture, water savings ideas to propose a water savings plan and rain harvesting is a key water saving tactic.

Take a look at some of Andy's recommendations to share models that work, enabling Southern California to use Australian green best practices for water savings and resilience in the face of historic drought and recent mandatory water cuts throughout California.

Australians have been confronting historic drought conditions and TreePeople's team are pointing out ways the Aussie "Land of Oz" has become among world leaders in water saving and smart water usage practices... Water conservation lessons from AU...

Sharing Green Best Practices

Of course, permaculture practices have roots in Aussie land in the person of Bill Mollison.

Climate change impacts, whether Australia or southwest US, are real and the water crisis brought on by drought in California continues to impact greatly. Look at what Altadena is doing in California as another model to capture and save water.

Their Foothill MWD water department collaborated with Hey!Tanks LA and TreePeople to develop a cistern rebate program. Kudos. Going the right direction in the foothills/headwaters of what used to be the LA River and the streams that in the olden days would replenish the LA basin aquifer and resupply (perma-supply in a cycle) the water being drawn out by LA's water wells (which are a considerable percentage of the Los Angeles water supply.)

There are ideas in the works to revitalize the LA River watershed but right now let's talk Cisterns.

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Rain barrels to catch roof-runoff can be very handy tool in helping maintain hardy landscaping.

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Speaking of water saving approaches and sustainability initiatives, there's a program in LA to replace the turf of water-hungry lawns with water-conserving perma-practice 'lawns', i.e., nextgen earth-scaping... http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-lawn-rebate-explainer-20150416-story.html

The DWP program to switch is up to $3.75 a square foot that the LA Dept. of Water & Power will give homeowners to rip out their turf, that old-fashioned look, and replace it with hardy, drought-tolerant plants.

The US EPA is increasingly focusing on water conservation and water saving.

As California confronts its historic drought, the water savings ideas of permaculture practice become more and more important."Water's valuable in the Golden State!"

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Take a look at Nate Downey's recent PermaDesign book -- Harvest the Rain. Nate is one of the vital voices advancing permaculture practices in the US. Also, check out Brad Lancaster's very popular Rain Harvesting book. Friends and Bioneers -- Nate Downey, Brad Lancaster, Andy Lipkis... permaculture-visionaries at work!

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Global greening is happening, permaculture practices are a future to follow...

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Practice permaculture in our times:

Water saving, rain harvesting, water storage systems, conservation and smart water usage makes great sense -- the time has come to be water smart

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References

Permaculture: A Designers Manual

Harvest the Rain: Landscapes for a Changing World

David Holmgren on permaculture, books at Amazon

Sepp Holzer's Permaculture: A Practical Guide to Small-Scale, Integrative Farming and Gardening

"Restoration Agriculture" Video

Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture

The Market Gardener

Permaculture: Build Your Edible and Sustainable Garden

The Resilient Farm and Homestead

Rainwater Harvesting - Brad Lancaster

The Permaculture Student

Regrarians About

Regrarians e-Handbook, Climate

Methodologies

Since the early 1980’s when it was first developed by Permaculture Co-originator Bill Mollison, hundreds of thousands of people worldwide have taken this training, though the Regrarians version is widely regarded as being one of the best going around for its no-nonsense & practical approach. Our 15 day residential or ‘weekend a month’ experience has attendees involved in a wide range of practicums, presentations & self-learning experiences. The Regrarians PDC is putting ‘Design’ back into Permaculture, and has attendees complete a minimum of 6 design exercises in order to iron out common mistakes and provide open feedback, including that of one the world’s acknowledged Permaculture masters and their guest trainers. Located on real project sites this PDC has a track record of changing people’s lives in a positive, practical and pragmatic way.

Resources

Regenerative Permaculture / UK

Permaculture Guild / US

Permaculture Guild Ecovillage Project / on Facebook

The Community-Scale Permaculture Farm: The D Acres Model for Creating and Managing an Ecologically Designed Educational Center

Tips on Making Compost

Permaculture Research Institute / Geoff & Nadia Lawton

Permaculture News / Permaculture Research Institute - Twitter

Regenerative Agriculture - FB

School Gardens

Don't treat soil like 'dirt': The soil is home to a large proportion of the world's biodiversity

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October 17 at 1:56pm

Steven Schmidt

A roofwater runoff perma-app -- http://permadesign.com/calculator/

I've never seen the term 'perma-app' before, I just made it up ;- and it would be great to have an easily accessible and useable database of perma-related apps