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FT millions cause division
ABC Online
Activists from the Huon Valley Environment Centre have urged all politicians to block the funding allocation. "Forestry Tasmania needs to be abolished," activist Jenny Weber said. "We don't support $110 million going to Forestry Tasmania to wind them ...

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Peace talks resume in Tas forest dispute
ABC Online
Jenny Weber, from the Huon Valley Environment Centre, isn't part of the peace talks, but she's agreed to scale down protest action in order to help the delicate process. JENNY WEBER: We will stop protest actions. The thing is, though, is that we also ...

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Defence in age of equality
Tasmania Mercury
Sgt Bond grew up on an apple and cherry farm at Judbury in the Huon Valley. He attended Judbury Primary School, Huonville High School and Mt Nelson College. "It wasn't something I thought about growing up, sex was not an issue we were always so busy on ...

OregonLive.com
Vancouver ecologist teaches residents to safely harvest food from their yard
OregonLive.com
But Joseph Leyda, a certified ecologist and permaculture designer in Vancouver, wants you to look beyond the nuisance. The best way to deal with a garden full of weeds is to pluck them from the ground -- and put them on your plate.

New hope for deal to end timber row
The Australian
The move was enough to persuade the Forest Industries Association of Tasmania to return to talks, which it had quit over anti-industry campaigns by Markets for Change, Still Wild Still Threatened, the Huon Valley Environment Centre and Code Green.

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Nordic Permaculture Festival Details
Permaculture Magazine
Well, the 2012 Nordic Permaculture Festival takes place between 23-26 August in Ängsbacka, Sweden. There are many ways to participate as well as enjoy the festival, so read on for further details. The team running the event say that this year's ...

Safety fears as thieves steal power
ABC Online
"We've recently identified a number of sites in the Huon Valley where some individual has tampered with our assets on poles," he said. "They're taking components and that's leaving our assets in a potentially unsafe situation.

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Brooks Town News
Bar Harbor Times
By Frank Champa | May 17, 2012 Newforest Institute is proud to host a Permaculture Design Course, taught by Julia & Charles Yelton, international permaculture designers and teachers. This in-depth, comprehensive course takes place over two week-long ...

Forest industry returns to peace talks
ABC Online
He has been encouraged by statements from protest groups outside the talks such as Markets for Change and the Huon Valley Environment Centre. Mr Edwards says that while the groups have not guaranteed they will stop their campaigns targeting overseas ...

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Boulder Weekly
Local farm loses the battle against local government
Boulder Weekly
By Hadley Vandiver After years of fighting Boulder County land use codes and regulations, Zia Parker is selling her farm and moving with her husband to Ecuador in hopes that running a permaculture farm will encounter fewer obstacles in the South ...

Music guild organizes gear sale, exhibits
Staunton News Leader
Also on Saturday, the Augusta County Permaculture Guild will demonstrate common sense ideas for saving money, such as solar cooking, food and clothes drying and heating; instant sheet mulch gardens; delicious fermented foods, breads and beverages; ...

Transition Ukiah:
Ukiah Daily Journal
The Transition Initiative, rooted in the Permaculture movement, has sprouted in more than 400 cities and towns worldwide, with communities creating locally-sourced, sustainable energy and food sources, reducing fossil fuel dependency and creating ...

OnMilwaukee.com
Victory Garden Initiative grows community in Milwaukee
OnMilwaukee.com
By Royal Brevväxling The Victory Garden Initiative (VGI) was founded upon permaculture principles by a group of people in a coffee shop three years ago. Its mission is to build communities of people who grow their own food, thus reintegrating human and ...

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Country clubs share the spoils
TheMercury.com.au
The men's senior foursomes championship was won by Huon Valley's Doug Hudson and Dennis Kelly with a round of 83. The women's senior foursomes championship title went to Colebrook's Joan Gregory and Janet Herczykowski with a round of 90.

83degreesmedia
Tampa Bay Gardeners Unite For International Permaculture Day
83degreesmedia
In support of that belief, she hosted an open-invitation event at her home on May 6, International Permaculture Day. Permaculture -- a term coined by Australians Bill Mollison and David Holmgren in the late 1950s -- is the ecological design system for ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Bright star invigorates
Sydney Morning Herald
Cherubino, 42, who was yet to be born when the Oatley family planted its first vines in the Hunter Valley in 1969, has roots in the great Australian traditional styles of Hardys/Houghton but is a creative, modern winemaker, exploring newer regions and ...

Permaculture Magazine
Permaculture Association in UK launches research programme
Permaculture Magazine
The Permaculture Association is launching a research project to find out how we can do permaculture better, what areas we need to learn more about and how we can do this more effectively worldwide. Want to get involved? Here's how.

South Church in Dobbs Ferry Digs for Good
The Daily Hastings
It's part of a local movement that's about climate change, food justice, permaculture and feeding the hungry. I participated because they have connected the project to Bill McKibben and 350.org, an organization that's “building a global movement to ...

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Permaculture Visionary: "We Don't Need to Wait for Permission" to Transform ...
truthout
I worked as a permaculture teacher and found out about peak oil and wondered what applying permaculture principles to responding to peak oil might look like. I think of it as being like what happens if you put, say, the beats from old James Brown ...

VIDEO: Forest action targets Ta Ann logging ship in Hobart harbour
Green Left Weekly
Huon Valley Environment Centre last night participated in a peaceful action on the Hobart waterfront. Activists used a projector to place images and messages about Ta Ann on the side of a vessel that was in port loading veneer.
Activists face trespass countsTasmania Mercury

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