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As I get ready to leave for a two-week permaculture design intensive, I thought I’d try to provide answers to at least one of the questions I get about it…”What’s Permaculture?”
I like one definition offered by Toby Hemmingway, author of Gaia’s Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture:
Permaculture is notoriously hard to define in a sound-bite. [...]

Posts I’ve made on other sites:

Tour de Coop on Critter Geek — this morning’s activity: a tour of local chicken coops!
Links from around the web on Citizen Science Projects — a collection of recent posts on the topic of citizen science.
Photos from Mother’s Day in Ohio on AuntT.com — a collection of the best of [...]

There’s a few things I’ve acquired over the last year related to our new paddling hobby and our Baja kayak vacation…these are too good to keep quiet about!
REI Zip Travel Tote ($24.50)

This clever tote folds into itself to form a neat, light package that you can toss in your suitcase or carry-on. Then when [...]

Intentional Communities Web Site (ecovillages, community, communes, cohousing, coops, sustainable living…)
Includes directory, blog
(tags: intentional community)

The Farm
(tags: intentional community)

In California, a Zen Gardener – New York Times
Article about Wendy Johnson of Green Gulch Farm, and her terrific new book.
(tags: books buddhism garden smartfolks authors)

Forestfarm: Corylus avellana Contorta CONTORTED FILBERT
Where to buy a corkscrew hazelnut, once I have a really good place to put it.
(tags: plants garden corkscrew hazelnut)

It’s not until I’m lying near the summit of Mt. Wittenberg, flat on my belly and watching the dragonflies across the clearing, that I realize that I’ve dozed on her flanks other times in the past, and always when I needed solace and solitude. I ended up here on both of my solo [...]

Two Good Things on Stubbleblog
Excellent ideas from Tony!
(tags: positive+reinforcement)

Maker Faire – Do-It-Yourself – Make Magazine – New York Times
Nice article on Maker Faire.
(tags: make makerfaire)

The Shamu Lady Is Back! – TIME
Trainer who uses same techniques as Karen Pryor has written a controversial book, “What Shamu Taught Me About Life, Love and Marriage.”
(tags: training positive reinforcement books)

Via the Makezine:Blog, here’s a short video feature on Mikey Sklar and his inventions:

I really admire what Mikey and Wendy are doing at Green Acres.

Fermi’s Paradox and the End of Cheap Oil – O’Reilly Radar
(tags: peakoil future et)

A Crude Awakening / The Oil Crash
(tags: peakoil movie toview)

wattzon.org
(tags: energy peakoil)