inner city

After London: A Vegetal Adventure

Vegetal Wall near Kings Cross, LondonToday was a victory for rambling. This morning I found myself on a bus to London without having had much chance to think about what I was going to London for. I had a vague notion that I would visit FARM:shop and perhaps visit Hackney City Farm.

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Introduction to Permaculture - Oxford, UK - July 2011

Introduction to Permaculture - Oxford, UK - July 2011If you’re going to be around Oxford in July I’m going

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The Urban Forest Gardens of Lisbon

Lisboa (Lisbon) Street Art Last week, on my way to a seminar with Sepp Holzer (more on that soon), I had the happy opportunity to spend some time in Lisbon, Portugal. On several occasions during my wanderings around this beautiful city I stumbled upon a little oasis amongst the meandering streets and tumble-down buildings.

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Glass Bottle Garden

SIP LettuceThanks to Inside Urban Green I came upon the idea of using glass bottles to make sub irrigated planters.

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Household Ecology Database

Science Daily has just published an interesting write-up on research conducted into household ecosystems. This is input-output analysis on a serious scale. I hope more of this work is done for other cities. In the meantime, the data from this study ought to be really useful for urban ecological design.

A couple of quotes from the article:

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History of Cuban Permacultura - Roberto Pérez Rivero

Nicholas Roberts of permaculture.tv has uploaded some very interesting videos of Roberto Pérez Rivero talking about the history of Permaculture in Cuba:

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