Permaculture in Thailand!

Howdy All! I'm blogging live from the Panya Project in Chiang Mai, Thailand -- an emerging permaculture paradise bursting at the seams with fresh bananas, passionfruit, garden greens, and joyful permaculture students of all ages!

Here I am with Ping Sodantha, the kinetic and bi-lingual 3-year old daughter of our head chef Kae.
For more of our adventures, check out www.panaypermaculture.blogspot.com -- I've just uploaded photos of the class building our compost pile.

Permaculture in Croatia

Check this out! From the International Permaculture Listserv...

Dear friends,


yesterday the national Croatian television showed a documentary about

permaculture and Fukuoka, where also the place where i live now was

included. We started a new ecovillage initiative with 3 grown ups and 2 kids

in an abandoned village named Furuli in Istria, Croatia. The video can be

seen on http://www.facebook.com/ext/share.php?sid=53795486100&h=NJHmv as the

first part, and the second part on
http://www.facebook.com/ext/share.php?sid=51353174895&h=8QMky. we have also

a web page www.sensemanufacture.com, where Armano's artistic work is

presented. He use natural materials and waste for his work. The ecovillage

concept is to combine art, permaculture and spirituality, which we already

live here, as a natural and easy sustainable lifestyle. There is a lot of

work which is going on, we want to broaden the garden, secure water supply,

and bring more people here to join. Any volonteering, advice and other

support is warmly welcome.


I wish you all the best for the New Year, just keep on going and never

stop...



Marijana

Re-Generation US

Yeehaw! More AppleSeed Permaculture students rocking out in the world. The Common Sense Regeneration Project, is emerging from Eden Vardy, who took the Permaculture Design Course with me in Thailand (same course as Hugo, blogged below!) and is now an associate at Gaia University.

naTerra - AppleSeed Permaculture students in action!

Check out my student Hugo's new project naTerra -- Permaculture land & community development in East Timor and beyond!




The organizations tagline:
"The best way to predict the future is to invent it"

Hugo took the 2007 Panya Project Permaculture Design Certification course with me, Christian Shearer, and friends. I'm teaching another one there in January...

Intro to Permaculture

Thanks to KrisCan for putting this video together! View more interviews here: http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=kriscanshow&view=videos

Rudolf Steiner - The World Economy

A discussion with Seth Jordan from ThinkOutward has alerted me to Rudolf Steiner's lectures on the 'World Economy'. Seth thinks there may be some solid connections between this text and Financial Permaculture -- head on over and check it out!

Rudolf Steiner was an incredible visionary -- the founder of Anthroposophy, Biodynamic Agriculture, Waldorf education, and more.

Here are the Steiner Archives: http://www.rsarchive.org/index.php
The home of the Biodynamic Farming & Gardening Association: http://www.biodynamics.com/
Wikipedia on Anthroposophy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthroposophy

WOW. LocallyGrown.net ROCKS.

Seriously. This is one of the most awesome presentations I've seen yet at the Financial Permaculture Course.

In a Nutshell: Eric Waldrop of www.locallygrown.net has solved the major challenges of Traditional Farmer's Market's, Community Supported Agriculture (CSAs), & Buying Clubs with an easy-to-use piece of internet software. (No nerds required! - Did I saw "wow?")

The virtual farmer's market he runs in Athens, Georgia has 60 growers, 1500 customers, and does over $10,000 of sales every week. By Eric's reckoning, that makes it the largest Farmer's Market in Georgia and the One of the largest in the Southeast USA. (Did I say "wow?")

I almost can't believe the ease and grace with which Eric has used the permaculture principle "the problem is the solution" to transform the challenges of small-scale ecological farming into stunningly simple solutions.

The Food & Agriculture business design group is in complete awe. I'm not even sure if we need investment capital to get this business started! Eric has made this so easy that half the participants (myself included!) are running home to start up their own local virtual farmers markets.

Watch a video explaining locallygrown.net: Click Here

One word descriptions of Eric's presentation by Financial Permaculture Course participants:
Awesome, fantastic, connective, wow, congratulations, nouveau, hopeful, excited, hunky dory, impatient to do, inspired, valuable, do it, possibilities, resourceful, cool, great, brilliant, cutting edge!!!

WOW.