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Hello everyone!

Here you have the documentary, called la Huerta de la Esquina / The Corner Veggie Garden, about how urban gardens are helping to solve problems that exist in both cities and citizens; problems related with health, social integration and environmental pollution.

https://vimeo.com/285874286…

The following passages are from five text boxes this writer included with tweets on the Twitter Platform, as outreach and sharing related to the paper “Brainstorming 100% Reduction in GHG Emissions ASAP Campaign” (157 pages; June, 2019)( http://bit.ly/321sn60 ).  [Note:  This paper is a major…

Hello Mother Nature lovers!!

We finally have it!

The time has come to announce that the documentary is ready. Here you have the trailer for the movie.…

Hello!

I see the garden as one of the best ways to cultivate sense of responsibility, community and teamwork, so I was especially excited to be in a garden worked…

There are beautiful, real and inspiring ways available for us to address the challenges we face. We share with so many others a passion for moral, ethical and spiritually-informed leadership to empower us to save our planet --and all living species -- while also building a just, compassionate and sustainable society. This is not only possible, it’s up to all of us together to grow into what’s required in this time. Let’s connect the Salish Sea bioregion with commitment, purpose and…

Hello.

We are in the final stretch of the project, immersed in the task of editing the documentary, which we hope to have it finalized in early…

http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/07/17/536485684/more-than-bread-sourdough-as-a-window-into-the-microbiome

If you still have not been able to, but would like to collaborate with our project, you are still on time as there are 11 days remaining. We have achieved so far € 6,980, so we have exceeded the minimum budget necessary to continue with the production of the documentary. Now we…

The Community Peacebuilding and Cultural Sustainability (CPCS) Initiative (www.cpcsi.org ) provides research and analysis for critical challenge alerts, and research and support for collaborative problem solving and community education initiatives which seek to maximize citizen participation, and accelerate solution-oriented activity.

The…

Hello Village Vancouver people!

June 10 is the deadline to reach € 6,000. At the…

Hello beautiful people!…

Hello.

We are Manuel and Estefanía, the spanish couple who were…

Applications are now available for the 2017 Neighbourhood Small Grants

Bring together a group of neighbours and apply for $50-$500 to work together on small projects that build community and/or sustainability in your neighbourhood!

Submit your applications at www.neighbourhoodsmallgrants.ca

Application deadline is April 4th

Three small grants now open for…

Support our pollinators and songbirds!

Put the rake and pruners down and nobody gets hurt! Your "messy" fall garden is teeming with life.

By Justin Wheeler from Xerces Society (home of bee love) You really need to check the link for the photos :-)

http://www.xerces.org/blog/put-down-those-pruners-pollinators-need-your-garden-garbage/

It should be welcome news for weary…

Locally produced video clips featuring leaders from Transition and Permaculture

https://vimeo.com/gaiacraft

by Jessica Walliser: Twenty-some years ago, fresh out of college with a horticulture degree in-hand, I started teaching adult education classes at a local botanic garden. For many years, I taught a class called Preparing Your Garden for the Winter. I would show slides (remember those?) of how well-kept gardens should look in January. In the images, every plant was cut to the nub, except for the ornamental grasses and butterfly bushes, and the whole garden was snug under a thick layer of…

The map and design for a permaculture design site in Roberts Creek, BC.

http://gaiacraft.com/heart-gardens-campus/

Gaiacraft
Permaculture Principles Design Deck

"Permaculture gives us a toolkit for moving from a culture of fear and scarcity to one of love and abundance" 

- Toby Hemenway

As an offering to the Transition, our visionary permaculture Gaiacraft team has created a Workbook of Permaculture Worksheets. 

Download free printable files 
or purchase hard copy from an on demand printer here :
http://www.gaiacraft.com/gaiacraft-workbook/

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