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<http://www.pdcastsusworldradio.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=510757>Homescale 
Permaculture: How to Create a Backyard Ecosytem
Toby Hemenway, www.patternliteracy.com author of the best selling 
book Gaia's Garden, tells us how to create beautiful and functional 
ecosystems in our own backyards. Hemenway, a Permaculture teacher, 
writer, and lecturer, talks about basic Permaculture principles, 
guilds, and how to build soil fertiility. Interview on Sustainable 
World Radio with host Jill Cloutier

Friday , 9-10am, Sustainable World Radio
KCSB 91.9 FM PST.
also streaming live on www.kcsb.org, interviews posted later on 
www.sustainableworldradio.com

TOBY'S  HEMENWAY BOOK
Gaia Garden: Homescale Permaculture: How to Create a Backyard 
Ecosytem 2nd Edition
revised and expanded second edition
http://www.chelseagreen.com/bookstore/item/gaias_garden_second_edition:paperback
Book Data
ISBN: 9781603580298
Year Added to Catalog: 2008
Book Format: Paperback
Book Art: Color photos & illustrations
Dimensions: 8 x 10
Number of Pages: 320
Book Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
Release Date: April 29, 2009
Web Product ID: 442

"The world didn't come with an operating manual, so it's a good thing 
that some wise people have from time to time written them. Gaia's 
Garden is one of the more important, a book that will be absolutely 
necessary in the world ahead."
-Bill McKibben, author of Deep Economy and Hope, Human and Wild

In these hard economic times, home gardening is a rapidly growing 
phenomenon.  The first edition of Gaia's Garden was the first major 
North American book on home scale permaculture.  In this extensively 
revised and expanded second edition, Toby Hemingway - a writer, 
teacher and expert on permaculture - broadens the reach and depth of 
the permaculture approach for the urban and suburban growers.

Hemingway shows that it is fun and easy to create a "backyard 
ecosystem" by creating communities of plants that can work 
cooperatively and provide a variety of functions, including:

Building and maintaining soil fertility and structure
Catching and conserving water in the landscape
Providing habitat for beneficial insects, birds, and animals
Growing an edible "forest" that yields seasonal fruits, nuts, and other foods
One of the highlights of this new edition is a chapter on urban 
permaculture, designed for people living in urban and suburban areas 
who have very limited growing space. In using basic permaculture 
principles you create a more diverse, productive, natural, and 
beautiful garden that requires less work to maintain.

Gaia's Garden, A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture, is a must-read for 
anyone wanting to work with nature and transform their garden into a 
beautiful and abundant habitat.
Please let us know if you would like a review copy of this important 
new edition, or would like to interview the author. 

Hemmingway's current project is developing urban sustainability 
resources in Portland, Oregon, where he now lives. He teaches 
permaculture, consults and lectures on ecological design throughout 
the country. His writing has appeared in magazines such as Whole 
Earth Review, Natural Home, and Kitchen Gardener.


Toby Hemenway is the author of the first major North American book on
permaculture, Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture. He is a
Scholar in Residence at Pacific University and an adjunct professor at 
Portland
State University. Toby teaches permaculture and consults and lectures on
ecological design throughout the country.
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I agree that cattle are not the problem. Many years ago I worked in documentary films.? I had the chance to see a collection of material shot in Africa in the 1940's.?In one striking shot?the filmmaker had climbed a slight rise in the Serengeti and panned his camera 360 degrees.? The shot revealed that the Serengeti was covered with grazing animals from the foreground to the horizon in all directions.?this was an echo of the richness of life in the?Pleistocene.?You could barely see the ground it was so thick with animals.? In fact the Serengeti was an exquisite ecosystem that sequentially supported unimaginable volumes of grazing animals in a very stable way, along with the predators who fed on them.? That has always convinced me that cows are not the problem.? How we raise cattle certainly is a problem, but if we observe nature then I bet we can design for intense numbers of grazing animals.? In terms of greenhouse gases, those animals are simply part of the natural carbon cycle.? It is the additional stored carbon that we are putting back into the atmosphere that is the problem.? 

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Subject: [permaculture] Elliot Coleman on Meat



Eating Meat Isn't Bad for the Planet, It's Our System of Raising the 
Animals That's Wrong

* By Eliot Coleman <http://www.alternet.org/authors/10926/>, Grist.org 
<http://www.grist.org>.

*"Targeting livestock as a smoke screen in the climate change 
controversy is a very mistaken path to take since it results in hiding 
our inability to deal with the real causes.  When people are fooled into 
ignorantly condemning the straw man of meat eating, who I suspect has 
been set up for them by the fossil fuel industry, I am appalled by how 
easily human beings allow themselves to be deluded by their corporate 
masters."
--

Keith Johnson
"Be fruitful and mulch apply."
Permaculture Activist Magazine
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