Forum: The big picture

It looks like a backbench revolt lead by Bill Heffernan and Gary Nairn has talked John Howard into killing off the sale of the Snowy Mountains...

Click - read. Lots in this pommy site. http://www.permaculture.co.uk/erc/book_contents.htm *click* floot

At the recent Melbourne Uni PDC Bill Mollison said "It's time to set up a permaculture NGO and employ ourselves." We can avoid the problems of...

A downloadable searchable Bible with multi versions etc. Great for Christians and well-read Heathens, fairly easy to use and brilliant if you...

I see many sites in America selling themselves as Certified Permacuture Training facilites. Just who is certified in America? My understanding that...

Sorry, I am not a good writer at the best of times and this may be a bit hard to follow. I asked our local council here if I could plant a...

Today's LA Times has a short article about Tribewanted, a project to recruit 5,000 people from around the world who want to live on an island with...

"These fields in New Mexico seem to be slowly eroding away into barren wasteland. At 30,000 feet one can more easily see geographic transitions like...

The clouds are called Mammatus clouds. They do not precede a tornado, or foretell a storm, but are formed when the air is already saturated with...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wq_Bj-av ... 0Institute Ad sponsored by Exxon. So go on, keep using fossil fuels the way you have been. You know...

I'm sure I ran across the site here. It described some people who are in Africa, and created a simple arrangement for housing and food for people...

If you have ever 'lost' a page that was a valid link. 1. Try to get the listing using google and then hit the 'cache' button - works when server...

Is anyone else following the madness that is the NAIS (National Animal Identification System) in the US? Google it. It is pretty scary. I'm...

Question: What mechanical equipment is cheaply available nearly everywhere on the planet? Answer: Automobile Parts Directive: Thus design renewable...

Found this while surfing..... Congress is pushing a law that would abandon the Internet's First Amendment -- a principle called Network...

...first I've seen like this...fantastic!...try the idiot proof 'sync start'...'the secret wish' (Trance) is very cool I tink....this is the sort of...

I'm reading an interesting book that may or may not be easy to get a hold of whereever you are. It is "the Tiger and the Pangolin; Nature, Culture...

Here is a link to an article I found at the Aussie BD site. I dont believe they will mind me borrowing a bit and posting the link. Here is a...

...and growing (a spin off from 'Plants for a Future') http://www.permaculture.info/

Hi all, My hubby and i are really interested in becoming certified organic. We have 50 acres (with only 2 acres cleared) and we are really only...