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The Windship Has Landed
On February 23, 2014 more than 70 people from around the world and the Philippines converged in Batug to build the first Windship the world has ever seen. A Windship is an Earthship-inspired typhoon bunker built using recycled materials employing a closed loop waste...
Regenerative Rehabilitation – A Fresh Flavor of Relief
The Earth Village Project is focused on regenerative rehabilitation; we’ve taken the word relief out of our vocabulary. There are no beneficiaries; we work collaboratively with the community, learning together. It comes back to the age-old adage of “If you give a man...
Sustainable Rehabilitation in the land of Waray
Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan) was off the scale. A category six storm that devastated the Philippines, it was the strongest storm to wreak havoc on land in the history of humanity. I have been working with the Earth Village Project since January in the Barangay (village)...
Photos
This saiba tree is five years old and it’s enormous, at least five stories. Last week it was barren and had no leaves, this week it’s lush with green. It all started from one little seed, that’s magic. (at Project Bona Fide)
Such an amazing and unique experience. It’s not everyday a local cook invites you and your friends into her home to learn the art of making Nicaraguan chocolate. I’m continually astounded by the caliber and strength of women here. One day I was...
Learning to make real chocolate from a Nicaraguan boss woman.. who wants some? (at Project Bona Fide)
Learning
The Power of Positive and Bush Flower Essences
The morning was glistening and it was the first day I was spending with Eli in Australia. He had just come come back to Australia after a four month trip through the USA connecting with the mycology and self-sufficiency networks. He was still in the process of getting...
Permaculture Design Course Day 10 : Strategies for an Alternative Global Nation
The final day of our course. We spent much of the day working diligently on our group permaculture design projects. Our design felt very intuitive and it really emerged from the nature of the landscape. We focused on getting the mainframe design of all the components...
Permaculture Design Course Day 9 : Aquaculture
We started the morning with a visit to our proposed sites for the design project portion of the permaculture course. Instead of there being a fictitious scenario, we are designing a number of different sites around Zaytuna Farm that tie into the future vision of the...
buy positively
This is what we have become, isn’t it gross?
Out of the Blue: The Terramar Project: Become a Citizen and Protector of the High Seas (via GOOD.is)
http://unitedbyblue.tumblr.com/post/28912856983/the-terramar-project-become-a-citizen-and-protector-ofOut of the Blue: The Terramar Project: Become a Citizen and Protector of the High Seas (via GOOD.is)No country “owns" the wide open oceans, they are regarded as common space. This is why they’re treated so poorly, it is a classic tragedy of the commons....
This is a project I’d love to support and tell everyone about. We can all make the world better. positive-press-daily: Oregon Tech renewable energy engineering students bring electricity to Tanzanian villages On August 19, Oregon Institute of...
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