Organic Garden Design
What’s the difference between organic gardening and permaculture? Permaculture is a multidisciplinary activity that mixes organic gardening with other fields […]
What is Permaculture?
What is it? The production of food and other human needs sustainably, using general principles adapted to specific situations. Why […]
Food Forests
Science increasingly reveals the degree to which forests shape the atmosphere, soil, rainfall, hydrology and climate. We used to think […]
Organic Matter Gardening
Recently I wrote an article about how organic matter is essential to the viability of forests, farms and civilization. Basically, […]
Organic matter can save the humans
You can measure the viability of a society by looking at their soil. When archaeologists study extinct societies such as […]
Installing Insulation
One of the failures of thermal modelling software is that it assumes that the builder can be bothered installing the […]
Designing Houses for Cave Men
This article is about sustainable house design so of course, the logical place to start is by looking for salt […]
Affordable Housing
I’ve discussed this problem with slum dwellers in Thailand, India and Peru and it is true that a house can […]
Passive Solar House Design
Design for climate Passive solar design creates buildings that have comfortable temperatures day and night, year round, without relying on […]
On Site Waste Water
We design wastewater treatment and land application systems for residential use. We can work with conventional technology like septic and […]
Green Building Materials
Buildings have a large impact on our total environmental footprint. To assess this impact, we consider: Depletion of a limited […]
22 Water Conservation Techniques
Nature, our great teacher, manages water by catching rainwater, slowing it down and using plants & soil to absorb water […]