A Free Online Permaculture Course....eventually

And if you support this indiegogo campaign, you'll get your free course sooner rather than later. I know, you're thinking "If I make a donation, it won't be free". You are right. But if you make a $100 donation and get 100 of your friends to do the same thing, you will have paid 1/20th the price of a standard permaculture course!!! And everyone after you gets it for free!

-In the meantime (or in addition to) you can get Bob Waldrop's ipermie book for just $2. Bob is a permaculture master and you get your money's worth (almost 400,000 words!)

-65 acres of urban agriculture has been uncovered by researchers in Chicago. Mostly food grown in backyards and vacant lots. Who's up for doing this for all of North America???

-Deconstruction can be a dirty business. A few companies in Japan have learned how to do it, floor by floor, from the middle down. You could be seeing similar businesses in North America appear in 5-10 years, especially in a city like Toronto, which is currently perched as the king of the condo market.

The Plug-In Farm + No thanks to a green wall

Let's cut to the chase:

As predicted in other places, big time water shortages ahead for much of the United States. That most likely means less lawnsacross the USA, which, I guess, is a good thing. Unless you just bought a new mower. In those drought stricken urban environments, could we see the rise of a Plug-in Farm, which marries the urban environment and animal husbandry.

-NPR covers a great story in Baltlmore, where ex-convicts are participating in the green economy through deconstruction.

-I love it when I stumble upon superior raw data. A crop map for every county in the US is a good start. Now where's the updated one? Am I too greedy???

-Remember that massive green wall that was supposed to go up on the Edith Green-Wendell Wyatt Federal Building in Portland? Well, it's been nixed. Too expensive, too risky, some folks say. Which is a shame, in a sense. Although I'm a huge fan of living architecture, to be honest, I can think of better ways to spend that cash. If you really want to have a green wall, why not make it a food producing one? Or spend that money on roofs, lots of green roofs.

-Lastly, whenever possible I try to post permaculture resources in other languages, here are a few in French and Arabic.