Allying with Nature to Regenerate our Living Planet…
Here is just a beginning list of titles, there is a whole universe of films out there on the subject, many of them well worth watching. This one was put together on February 24, 2024 by Michael Pilarski, of the Global Earth Repair Foundation The
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By Michael Pilarski I have been studying and writing about planetary regeneration since 1974. I have read the work of thousands of authors over the years, watched hundreds of YouTube videos, and am now researching the best movies for our Climate Solutions Film Festival. In
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Michael Pilarski talks about his decades of experience with farming, earth repair, and the permaculture movement.
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By Michael Pilarski, March 27, 2022Friends of the Trees Society, Global Earth Repair Foundation The current trend is for the world to have less paradises and more disasters. Here is a vision of the future where we reverse the trend and build more paradises and
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Recently we’ve been in contact with Marius Ziganira, who runs the regenerative agriculture program at the Nakivale Refugee Camp in Uganda, Africa. We’re very pleased to support them in their work, in addition we have made this video full of ecological restoration suggestions that will
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Let’s crowd-source this! May 11, 2022. – Version 1 – Send info to Michael Pilarski, friendsofthetrees@yahoo.com This directory idea came out of a conversation between Brock Pollock of Replant the Forest Festivals and Michael Pilarski of Global Earth Repair Foundation. We would like to see
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Kambashu Institute – Windhoek, Khomas, Namibia & Germany Ina Wilkie set out to address food insecurity in Namibia’s biggest informal settlement. Here, on the outskirts of the capital city of Windhoek, women find themselves unemployed and vulnerable, yet empowered to create a secure life for
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Join us for this hybrid global event: online with in-person hubs wherever two or more would like to gather! The demand is growing, practitioners more numerous, mass movements more possible. There are many restoration initiatives that exist, though most are not aware of each other,
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Savory Institute of Holistic Management – Zimbabwe, Africa Allan Savory is a Zimbabwean scientist, livestock farmer, and president and co-founder of the Savory Institute. He originated Holistic management, a systems thinking approach to managing resources. Savory had studied the relationships between animals and the land
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“Stream Restoration Wizard” – New Mexico, USA Bill Zeedyk is a “River Re-creator,” and the Principal author of “Let the Water Do the Work: Induced Meandering.” His video: “Bill Zeedyk and induced meandering in Altar Valley, Arizona (Part 1)” introduces us to his concept of “Induced Meandering,” the process of
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P.A. Yeomans (1905 – 1984) was an Australian inventor known for the Keyline System for the development of land and increasing the fertility of that land. Keyline design accounts for the natural formation of a given landform and maximizes the water storage and fertility. The
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Elemental Ecosystems – USA Protégé of revolutionary Austrian farmer Sepp Holzer, Zach Weiss is the first-ever person to earn the coveted “Holzer Practitioner Certification” directly from Sepp – through a rigorous two-year apprenticeship working on projects in North America and Europe. Zach created Elemental Ecosystems
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PIBS Institute of Biodiversity and Sustainability – Palestine Mazin Qumsiyeh is a scientist, author and activist, and is the founder and director of the Palestine Museum of Natural History (PMNH) and the Palestine Institute for Biodiversity and Sustainability (PIBS) at Bethlehem University where he teaches. He
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Perma Atlas Foundation – Amsterdam, Netherlands and Morocco, Africa A notable permaculturalist and educator currently working on an Earth Repair project in Anguelz, Morocco, Latifa Oumlil is the founder of the Perma Atlas Foundation which has significantly aided in the “re-greening” of the Atlas Mountains.
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Cold Desert Afforestation – India Anand Dhawaj Negi, 1947-2021, popularly known as AD, was a retired bureaucrat turned “Forest man of Kinnaur” who left an evergreen legacy and miraculous story in the cold desert of India by developing a lush forest spread over 100 hectares
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Permaculturalist and Singer-Songwriter – East Timor, Indonesia Eugenio Lemos is an environmental activist and musician. He is the founder (2001) of the first national organization dedicated to permaculture in East Timor, Permatil, which is leading the effort to publish the Tropical Permaculture Guidebook. Permatil’s motto
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Desert Harvesters – Tuscon, Arizona USA Brad Lancaster has taught, designed, and consulted on regenerative-design systems of permaculture and integrated water-harvesting systems in seven countries since 1993. He created and lives on a thriving solar-powered 1/8th-acre (0.05-ha) urban oasis in downtown Tucson, Arizona, which harvests
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The Natural Farmer – India John Kaisner is a much-loved international teacher, designer and practitioner of Permaculture. But it wasn’t always this way. He spent the first 20 years of his career in architecture, where he designed and completed projects in Paris, New York, Los
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Permaculture, RetroSuburbia – Australia David is the other original “co-founder of Permaculture” and also co-author (with Bill Mollison) of the book, “Permaculture One,” published in 1978, which inspired the entire movement. Bill and David lived together for a period of three years, collaborating on their
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Syntropic Agriculture – Switzerland Ernst Gotsch is a Swiss farmer and researcher working mostly in Brazil. He has originated a system of climate and biodiversity friendly sustainable farming techniques known as syntropic agriculture or dynamic/successional agroforestry. The practice of Syntropic Agriculture focuses highly on regeneration
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Atlan Community, White Salmon, WA with Michael “Skeeter” Pilarski and Marisha Auerbach Currently, the world’s biodiversity is in decline due to resource exploitation and global consumption patterns. Bioregional stability comes from ecosystem health. Healthy ecosystems provide clean air, clean water, ecological services, habitat and food
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Robert Adrian de Jauralde Hart (1913-2000) was an English pioneer of forest gardening in temperate zones. He created a model forest garden from a 0.12 acre (500 m²) orchard on his farm. Hart began with a smallholding called Highwood Hill farm at Wenlock Edge. His
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Permaculture Institute – Australia Bill Mollison (1928-2016) was an Australian researcher, author, scientist, teacher and biologist. He was a co-founder of what we now commonly refer to as “Permaculture.” He also founded the original Permaculture Institute, established in 1979, to teach the practical design of
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Friends of the Trees Society, Global Earth Repair Foundation – Pacific Northwest, USA Our founder, Michael Pilarski, has been making waves in the international ecosystem restoration and regenerative agriculture for decades. Michael is a regenerative farmer by trade, teaching hundreds through his example garden at
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Polyface Farm – Virginia, USA Joel Salatin calls himself a “Christian Libertarian environmentalist capitalist lunatic farmer.” Others who like him call him the most famous farmer in the world, the High Priest of the Pasture, and the most eclectic thinker from Virginia since Thomas Jefferson.
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Communal Village Regeneration Project – Zimbabwe, Africa For the last 20 years, villagers in this area have taken their lives and futures into their own hands with the permaculture-informed restoration of watersheds, farmland and culture. Where once the people of the Chikukwa villages suffered hunger,
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The Green Wall of Africa – Burkina Faso, Africa Yacouba Sawadago is famed for being “The Man who Stopped the Desert”, as for the relentless work he has done to coax a forest out of desert-like soil in the country. In Burkina Faso, he deployed
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Biodynamic Agriculture – New Zealand, India Peter Proctor (1928-2018) was one of the most respected and influential figures in contemporary Biodynamics. He was born in 1928 in New Zealand. His passions took him to India, where he found a much more receptive, fertile ground, as
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Ecosystem Restoration Camps – America, China, International John D. Liu is is an American ecologist and filmmaker and one of the world’s most eloquent spokesperson for global earth repair. This Chinese-American filmmaker travels widely and works with people and institutions in several countries. John has
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John Jeavons is a leader in the field of Biointensive agriculture. He developed the small-scale, high-yielding, resource-conserving “GROW BIOINTENSIVE Sustainable Mini-Farming” method—an approach that allows small farmers to increase yields, build fertile soil up to 60x faster than nature, and use 66% less water per
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Sarvodaya Institute – Los Angeles, CA, USA Rishi Kumar is a small-scale farmer, land-artist, writer, and educator. Since 2010, he has been working in the field of urban gardening and farming in Los Angeles (Sarvodaya Farms), where he has helped create and establish hundreds of
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Regenerative Resources – USA Neal Spackman is a Terraformer, an internationally recognized pioneer of hyper-arid agro-forestries. Neal is the director of the Al Baydha Project in Makkah, Saudi Arabia, where he and local Bedouin tribesmen designed and built an agroforestry system to convert deserts into
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Formidable Vegetable Sound System – Australia, International Charlie McGee is the most famous permaculture singer in the world as a ukulele-strumming ecological troubadour. He independently founded the band, Formidable Vegetable Sound System, which is sowing the garden of our minds with the seeds of change
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Michael Evenari (1904-1989) was an Israeli botanist originally from Germany. Evanari figured out the secrets of the ancient Nabatean runoff agriculture systems in the Negev Desert. One of the best examples of ancient, sophisticated water harvesting systems and how he recreated aspects of it today.
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J. Russell Smith (1874-1996) was an American geographer and is considered the father of the field of agroforestry. In 1929, he released his book Tree Crops: A Permanent Agriculture, one of the best reference books on agroforestry and forest farming, and noted as a key
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Goran N’Diaye of Senegal is a pioneer and master of permaculture demonstrated by growing a lush oasis in the desert. He is the Director of the Kaydara agro-ecological farm located in Sine Saloum of Senegal. His story begins with finding water 4 meters below the
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Charles and Perrine Hervé-Gruyer are a “power couple” that decided to become low impact farmers in 2006 with their Bec Hellouin Permaculture Farm. The couple was untainted by knowledge of conventional western practices and took on the principles of permaculture as well as varied sources
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Zephaniah Phiri Maseko (1927-2015) was a Sustainable Farmer and Water Conservationist. For over 40 years Zephaniah Phiri Maseko lived, farmed, and raised a family in one of the most arid and resource-poor lands in southern Africa, Zimbabwe’s Zvishavane District. Through his own ingenuity and despite
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Mark Shepard is the CEO of Forest Agriculture Enterprises, founder of Restoration Agriculture Development (RAD), and award-winning author Mark has also been a farmer member of the Organic Valley cooperative, the worlds largest Organic Farmer’s marketing co-op, since 1995. RAD is a full-service environmental consulting,
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Sepp Holzer is a farmer, an author, and an international consultant for natural agriculture. After an upbringing in a traditional Catholic rural family in Austria, he took over his parents’ mountain farm business in 1962 and became well-known for his use of ecological farming, or
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Darren J. Doherty is a 5th generation Bendigo region land manager, developer, author & trainer and has been involved in the design & development of over 3000 projects across 6 continents in more than 50 countries, ranging from 1 million hectare cattle stations in Australia’s
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Rosemary Morrow trained in agricultural science and rural sociology and after spending time in Africa, she realized there needed to be a better alternative to conventional agricultural practices. She found this in the ethics and integrated applied science of permaculture, and has been teaching permaculture
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Geoff Lawton is a world renowned Permaculture consultant, designer and teacher. Lawton was British born and now resides in Australia. He first took his Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) Course in 1983 with Bill Mollison the founder of Permaculture. Geoff has undertaken thousands of jobs teaching,
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Andre Leu is the International Director of Regeneration International, which promotes food, farming and land use systems that regenerate and stabilize climate systems, the health of the planet and people, communities, culture and local economies, democracy and peace. Regeneration International works with numerous agricultural systems
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Leah Penniman has over 20 years of experience as a soil steward and food sovereignty activist, and with farmers internationally in Ghana, Haiti, and Mexico. Li co-founded Soul Fire Farm in 2010 with the mission to reclaim our inherent right to belong to the earth
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David Bainbridge is a Research Ecologist focusing on dryland degradation and desertification, which now affects almost a billion people around the world, as his passion remains in how to understand, repair, and restore damaged ecosystems. He is an expert in the ecology of desert plants,
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In 1978, David Holmgren collaborated with Bill Mollison on a vision of ethics and principles to guide how humans interact with the Earth and each other; these visions were written down in their now-famous book Permaculture One. David is still thankfully very much in the
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Author, educator and activist Mazin B. Qumsiyeh formerly worked at Duke University and Yale in the medical field. He returned to Palestine in 2008, where he established the Palestine Museum of Natural History (PMNH). Today it has 8 employees and Mazin and his wife, Jessie,
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In October I was invited to give a zoom lecture on water harvesting techniques to the first permaculture design course held in Somalia. I agreed and learned a lot from the experience. I learned that the former Somalia has a number of autonomous zones in
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As an educator of Holistic Land Management, Precious Phiri specializes in reversing major environmental issues by teaching, training, establishing and mobilizing communities throughout the world. Especially in Zimbabwe, she is renowned for her work in building restorative farming programs, reversing desertification by restoring watersheds and
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The Global Drylands Library contains hundreds of books on ecological restoration and sustainable agriculture in the world’s arid and semi-arid lands. There is an on-line bibliography at https://globalearthrepairfoundation.o… The library has been collected by Michael Pilarski over the last 40 years and is being added
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Andrew Millison, of Oregon State University, has been providing permaculture knowledge to hundreds if not thousands of students over the years, through online classes and his YouTube channel. His work is inspiring in how he demonstrates the use of readily-available free-of-cost technology to map, plan
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As an “Ecosystem Ambassador,” John D. Liu has been dedicated to documenting and aiding the restoration of ecosystems, globally, for decades. He got his start in Ecology when he was documenting the monumental ecosystem improvements in the Loess Plateau in China in the mid-1990’s. What
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Mazin Qumsiyeh Founder/Director of the Palestine Institute of Biodiversity and Sustainability,Bethlehem University A Zoom Presentation January 23, 2022, Sunday, 10:00 – 11:30 AM, Pacific Time The Global Earth Repair Foundation is pleased to host a presentation by Mazin Qumsiyeh of the Palestine Institute of Biodiversity
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WOW!! Here are two great videos about repairing the earth. 10 inspiring, success stories of re-greening the planet and 9 ways to do it. I have known Zach for ten years or so and have watched him build a successful permaculture career and become an
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Founder and President of Elemental Ecosystems, Zachary Weiss, and his team focus on raising awareness of natural water systems where they intersect with individuals and greatly varied landscapes. They are active worldwide, in the States of Oregon, Montana, Vermont, and Tennessee, amongst others, and internationally
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The Global Drylands Library (GDF) is an on-line bibliography of books on drylands focusing on sustainable use and ecological restoration. LibraryThing is the on-line platform. As of December 1, 2021 there are 206 books cataloged and a growing pile of new books to be added.
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Walter Jehne is a former CSIRO Climate Scientist and Microbiologist and the founder of Healthy Soils Australia. He specializes in the inter-relationships of soil microbiology and the process by which biomatter is converted to new healthy soil. Walter is internationally renowned for his work bringing
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With Michael Pilarski, Penny Livingston & guest teachers! October 4 – 13th, 2021 Skalitude Retreat CenterMethow Valley, Eastern Washington REGISTRATION IS CLOSED. THE COURSE IS FULL.Send us an an email to be added to our waiting list.Sales.friendsofthetrees(at)gmail.comIf you are interested in joining this course next
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Join us for a fun and informative in-person workshop on small-scale commercial herb production using regenerative agriculture and permaculture methods! When we are meeting: ~ April 24th, Saturday ~ June 12th, Saturday ~ August 7th, Saturday ~ October 2nd, Saturday — 10:00 am to 5:00
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There are several more installments to this series yet to come, but here we have the announcement of our intention to create a full set of instructional material. Thanks to John D. Liu and Michael Pilarski for this awesome collaboration; it will form the basis
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In August, 2020 I participated in an Ecosystem Restoration Camps webinar which centered on Camp Habiba, in the town of Nuweiba, located on the coast of Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula. Camp Habiba aims to introduce regenerative agricultural techniques into local communities, stop erosion and desertification, and
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Michael goes through tips and tricks out of his years of permaculture teaching experience – woody debris, hugulkultur, rain catchment, water harvesting, infiltration, etc. There are so many ways we can begin the restoration process beginning with our own spaces! This will create a better
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Lachlan McKenzie joined us via Skype Video for a presentation at the Global Earth Repair Conference; his work for peace and regenerative food security around the world has been incredible. Timor-Leste has a great wealth of regenerative agriculture knowledge for the rest of the world,
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Hey, check out more webinar recordings with our in-house plant guru, Skeeter! Enjoy:
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There is no doubt we are going through uncertain times, nonetheless there are many things we can do to secure our food supply and care for the Earth at the same time. What does permaculture have to offer us right now? Here are some pertinent
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Hosted by Finnriver InCider Space Zoom! Join us live on Zoom for the following webinars- “Medicinal Trees & Shrubs” April 29, Wednesday 3:00pm – 4:00pm PDT. “Pacific Northwest Native Medicinal Plants” May 6, Wednesday 1:00pm – 2:00pm PDT. “Medicinal Plants in Permaculture Systems” May 13,
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March 16, 2020 Local food production is more important than ever! Grow your own! The Global Earth Repair office is temporary closing our public office hours on Wednesday & Saturday until further notice. The office will be open by appointment only. We plan to continue
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Introduction to Biochar Production & Use Time: March 7, Saturday1-4pmLocation:Global Earth Repair Office10644 Rhody Drive, Port Hadlock, WA Attendees will be presented with an overview of biochar history, production and uses, including local examples (Jefferson and Clallam counties). Biochar is produced in simple micro-gasifier stoves,
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Michael Pilarski – Feb. 2, 2020 I first learned about sand dams from Bill Mollison in 1986 at his first Drylands Permaculture Design Course. It is gratifying to see it catching on in a bigger way in Africa in the 2000s. These sand dams are
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By Michael Pilarski, Friends of the Trees Society, and Global Earth Repair Foundation. Febuary 6, 2020. [This paper originated as an outline for January 28, 2020 presentation by Michael Pilarski in Port Hadlock WA. We were honored to have the participation of Paul Gautschi, world-famous
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Business-Organization: SouthWoods Ecosystems Website: http://Southwoodsecosystems.com https://www.facebook.com/southwoodsecosystems/ Social Media: https://www.facebook.com/daniel.halsey.5 Daniel Halsey 09/2018 Curriculum Vitae Daniel has a Bachelor of Science degree in Temperate Climate Polyculture Design and a Masters of Professional Studies in Horticulture from the University of Minnesota. He enjoys the rigors of developing
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By Michael Pilarski, Friends of the Trees Society, 2009 So what is permaculture? What makes it different from: organic gardening? organic farming? sustainable agriculture? ecological agriculture? bio-dynamic farming? regeneration farming? forest gardening? Holistic Resource Management HRM? ecosystem restoration? sustainability? or natural building? Permaculture is unique,
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Auroville’s website has a large section of information on their green activities.
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Protégé of revolutionary Austrian farmer Sepp Holzer, Zach is the first person to earn Holzer Practitioner certification directly from Sepp – through a rigorous two-year apprenticeship. Blending a unique combination of systems thinking, empathy, and awareness, Zach created Elemental Ecosystems to provide an action-oriented process
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Rhonda Baird works for the health of the Earth and all her peoples. She spends some of her time teaching permaculture design, doing design work, and editing “Permaculture Design” magazine. She has helped to organize many groups over the past two decades around social issues
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Peter Bane is a native Illinoisan who grew up in the university city of Champaign-Urbana. A frequent speaker and conference presenter, he is the author of The Permaculture Handbook: Garden Farming for Town and Country, and published Permaculture Activist magazine from 1990-2015. He contributed to
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Penny Livingston-Stark is internationally recognized as a prominent permaculture teacher, designer, and speaker. She holds a MS in Eco-Social Regeneration and a Diploma in Permaculture Design. Penny has been studying the Hermetic Tradition of alchemy and herbal medicine making in Europe and the United States
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We have been environmentalists our entire adult lives. Even though Norm is trained as a pesticide toting entomologist and ecologist (MS and PhD), our transition to permaculture, environmental sustainability and organic gardening began many years ago when we created Northstar Nurseries, Inc. When we retired
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Mike Maki is an environmental activist and entrepreneur in agriculture and forestry with forty plus years of experience in Earth repair. He is a co-founder at Agroforestry Associates, a founding member of the Tilth Association, and the CEO of Viviendo Soil Solutions. Tilth is the
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Michael Pilarski, farmer, wild-crafter and educator, has worked with over 1,000 species of plants. He is the founder of Friends of the Trees Society (1978) and the author of books on agriculture, agroforestry, forestry and ethnobotany. He has lived in the Northwest since 1972 and
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Maya Elson is a teacher, naturalist, mycologist, organizer and lover of the wild. As the Executive Director of CoRenewal and Amazon Mycorenewal Project, she is dedicated to enacting effective and just solutions to environmental and social crises. As one of the founding members of the
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Business-Organization: City of Austin, Wildland Conservation Division For over 30 years, Jim has combined his love of teaching, biology, and environmental stewardship to help protect the Black-capped Vireo and endangered Golden-cheeked Warbler in Central Texas. He taught 5th grade science and environmental education in Dripping
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Jillian is an experienced practitioner of regenerative systems, who co-creates transformative learning experiences in Permaculture and Ecovillage design. The founder and Executive Director of the Sustainable Living Network in Toronto, she has facilitated whole systems design in over 35 countries internationally. As well as traditional
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Business-Organization: Central Rocky Mountain Permaculture Institute A forager and permaculturist with roots in rural Nebraska, Jerome Osentowski lives in a passive solar home he built at 7200 feet above Colorado’s Roaring Fork Valley. Director and founder of Central Rocky Mountain Permaculture Institute and a permaculture
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Business-Organization: Permaculture Now!, Permaculture Design International Jenny Pell works overseas as a full-time permaculture designer while based out of Maui. Her works both large and small span the Pacific NW, Central America, and the Hawaiian Islands. Her portfolio includes leading the project on the Beacon Food
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Business-Organization: All Points Land Design Javan Kerby Bernakevitch is Principal Consultant at All Points Land Design. This firm help clients catch and store water, build soil carbon and biological diversity while establishing anti-fragile enterprises that increase quality of life while decreasing cost of living. Working
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Business-Organization: Suburban Permaculture Jan Spencer has lived in Eugene for 25 years. His interests are a convergence of care for the natural world, economics, permaculture, urban land use and positive human potential. His PDC is from Austin, Texas. Jan has been transforming his suburban property
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Organizations: Abundant Earth Foundation, Weaver Network, Permaculture Magazine Hannah has studied permaculture and other regenerative practices for much of her life. Her passion to inspire others to do all they can on behalf of the planet has led to a career in environmental journalism and
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Business-Organization: Sunfield Farm Ezra started farming almost a decade ago in South America. There he was inculcated with peasant wisdom. Afterwords, coming back to North America, Biodynamics spoke very clearly his burning questions and feelings about modernity. He is currently the Farm Manager at Sunfield
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Business-Organization: TERRA David Yarrow has been a healer, teacher, food & farm activist, and earth advocate for 40 years, building sustainable regional food systems in the Northeast, teaching sustainable soil care, guiding people to health through natural food, conscious cooking and intelligent body care. In
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Business-Organization: Regeneration International, Seeds of Freedom Network of the Americas, International Network of Educational Orchards Claudia Flisfisch Cortés, network developer, is originally from Chile, currently living in Mexico. She is a small-scale organic farming educator, a founding member of the Seeds of Freedom Network of
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Business-Organization: Save Our Soil Christian has backgrounds in biomimicry, green buildings, sustainable development, disasters, telecomputing, construction, cooperatives, intentional communities and ecovillages. Having worked in both the public and private sectors, he’s had multiple professions including farmer, entrepreneur, jeweler, gardener, landscape contractor, construction tradesman, machinist, public
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Business-Organization: inspiration farm As a co-steward of Inspiration Farm for the past 25 + years, Brian has a wide breadth of practical knowledge on how to partner with natural systems to bring forth stability and abundance. Being interested in gardening and appropriate technology since I
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Business-Organization: Pixie Honey Co, & Skalitude LLC Benjamin Pixie is a plant romancer (herbalist), revolutionary bee centered beekeeper, & alchemist. He uses poetry as a radical tool of human feeding of non-human beings. He is currently running the Skalitude wilderness retreat center, a founder of
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Andrew Millison is legendary for his works in permaculture, and his video library on YouTube is extensive. You may have seen him in top-rating permaculture videos put out there by the University of Oregon, where he interacts often with the AV geeks and makes something
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Alexa’s work is a synergistic blend of her studies in consciousness with emphasis on the functioning of collective consciousness and the evolution of consciousness, and permaculture. Her work lends itself to larger scale social permaculture and social movements. Southern Oregon Usa Alexa’s Workshop: The Bio-cultural
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Business-Organization: Eldenbridge Institute Alan graduated from Auburn University in Electrical Engineering with a focus on computer architecture and neural networks. He currently has almost 30 years of experience as a systems engineer and systems architect working in digital telecommunications and large-scale computer systems. As he
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Business-Organization: Resilience Permaculture Design, LLC A fourth generation Oregon native, Abel is well acquainted with the forests and fields of the Pacific Northwest where he has been a farmer and restoration forester for many years. He is the co-owner of Resilience Permaculture Design, a whole
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Dear Attendee of the Global Earth Repair Conference, Thank you so much for your participation in last month’s Global Earth Repair Conference! What an amazing gathering and sharing of the knowledge that will help heal the planet. Now, let’s keep the momentum going and get
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How many of you readers know where the country of Timor is? Timor is a country in the Indonesian Archipelago which won a war of independence from Indonesia in 2002. After the war the country was in ruins and much of its population killed. Shortly thereafter, a
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Article by Michael Pilarski On August 7, I attended an hour and half webinar by Ben Falk put on by the Ecosystem Restoration Camps Foundation’s Deep Dive Webinar series. Ben Falk is a permaculturist, perhaps best known for his work growing rice in paddies in
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On August 5, I had a fruitful phone conversation with Dan Halsey, a permaculture designer, and principal of SouthWoods Ecosystems in Minneapolis. Dan is on the board of Permaculture Resources Institute, USA and initiator of United Designers, an international consortium of permaculture designers. Halsey has
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I hope you enjoy this first edition of the new Permaculture Times Newsletter published by Andrew Millison of Oregon State University. Andrew was part of the Global Earth Repair Conference, as were two of the featured presenters in the newsletter, Zach Weiss and Rajendra Singh.
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