Vermiculture Composting Toilet Plans and How to Compost at Home

Incorporating vermiculture bins into our composting toilet plans is one way we see of building a compost bin into our human waste disposal plan. Doing this will take composting with worms indoors with a new eco friendly toilet we believe anyone will be able to duplicate. In our opinion, there are more and more people […]

Gaiacraft Permaculture

Gaiacraft is a group of dedicated individuals whose purpose is to bring natural permaculture and sustainablility back into the sphere of common knowledge.  Formed in 2002, they have been teaching workshops, courses and full certification classes, bringing our world closer to its original symbiotic relationship with nature. They recently introduced a comprehensive introductory workbook, called the Gaiacraft Permaculture Workbook, […]

Permaculture Principles at Work

Permaculture is a design science based on 3 simple ethics: care for the earth, care for people, and share the surplus. Erik Ohlsen from Permaculture Artisans teaches how to permaculture classes through Earth Activist Training (EAT). The goal of permaculture is to create sustainable systems that provide for human needs while regenerating the land around […]

Permaculture: Saving Humanity and the Earth

Toby Hemenway is a teacher, consultant and lecturer on permaculture and ecological design. Toby is also a professor at Portland State University, a Scholar-in-Residence at Pacific University, and a biologist consultant for the Biomimicry Guild. In this lecture Toby explains how Agriculture has not actually helped mankind but instead has hindered our progress as well […]

Urban Permaculture for Communities: Re-patterning the Grid

Visionary and eco-architect Mark Lakeman is founder of City Repair, Communitecture Architects, and the Planet Repair Institute. Mark goes against the traditional architecture teachings that humanity and nature are separate. Instead he brings these two concepts together, expressing them in beautiful artform. Modeling the plazas of Mexico and South America, Mark is teaching people the foundations of community […]

"In order to change an existing paradigm you do not struggle to try and change the problematic model.

You create a new model and make the old one obsolete. That, in essence, is the higher service to which we are all being called."
~ Buckminster Fuller ~