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Updated 7 August 2014

Here we are collecting a range of resources for Permaculture students and practitioners, made available over the past 6 years of offering the Permaculture Design Certificate Course (the ‘PDC’) yearly at Cloughjordan Ecovillage.

New!  The 2014 Permaculture Design Certificate Course Handbook by Graham Bell 

The Weather in Cloughjordan (Weather Underground)

New! The 2014 Permaculture Design Certificate Course Timetable (V1.2)

Cloughjordan Wood-fired Bakery (get your breakie bread fresh!)

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Straw houses are baling out council building plans

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By Cath Harris | Reprinted from guardian.co.uk,

The-shell-of-a-straw-hous-003Building houses from straw is proving an attractive proposition to some councils and residents, thanks to their energy efficiency

Sharon Watkins wasn’t the first to be offered one of two new council houses in an isolated village in Lincolnshire. “Other people refused and I could have said no because I don’t drive and it’s in the middle of nowhere,” she recalls.

Some photos of straw building >>

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Island-Wide Permaculture Gathering

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2014-gatheringA new island-wide Permaculture Gathering will take place in at a beautiful site at the base of the Sugar Loaf Mountain in Co. Wicklow from the 12-14th August 2011. Our goal is to organize a weekend camp of anywhere from 80-200 people in a private location to support the growing number of Permaculturists in Ireland by…

UPDATE, 19 Feb 2014:  This event is now a yearly event.  Join! 

Interesting

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Obama could kill fossil fuels overnight with a nuclear dash for thorium

Peak Oil is History

Biochar article from Climate Progress – a respectable US Climate Science site  – about different biochar experiments around the world. It estimates potential for carbon capture at around 12%, but focuses on potential for soil enhancement and also notes different qualities depending on materials used.

Albert Bates recommends…

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A quote:

A nation foundering in a crippled vessel in the horse latitudes of collective purpose on a sea of red ink looks to its captain – who puffs a few platitudes into the tattered sails and retreats belowdecks to pace and stew. This is a society truly lost at sea, where even the friendly dolphins are turning belly-up and the dying seabirds stare accusingly under their cloaks of crude oil.    -James Howard Kunstler

Graham Strouts recommends…

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Graham-headshot-2012BOOKS –  Suggested Reading

GENERAL PERMACULTURE and DESIGN
Permaculture-A Designers’ Manual, Mollison et al. The Original Designers’ manual, huge in scope, emphases on tropics and drylands.

Introduction to Permaculture, Mollison, Reny Mia Slay. Good summary, accessible form of the Manual.

The Earth Care Manual, Patrick Whitefield. First Designers’ manual written for temperate zones Permaculture Activist- US Quarterly Journal.  www.permacultureactivist.net.

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