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Welcome to Wisdom :: Earth

This website is dedicated to the study and development of Permaculture, and application of its principles in the real world. We will also be discussing health and nutrition, natural medicines, sacred geometry (patterns and fractals), spiritual development and beneficial scientific discoveries.

Permaculture designs aim to fulfill the following goals:

resilient, productive and healthy ecosystems
plant and animal diversity and balanced populations
energy efficient and sustainable housing and infrastructure
recycling and effectively utilising our limited resources
co-operation and community building
observing patterns in nature and harmonising with their ebbs and flows
sharing the surplus to secure a positive future for all living things

Through cooperation, rather than competition, resourcing and community building, we can all make a difference in securing the future of our food supply, education, and culture!
Join the on-line community of Permaculture Imagineers and start living the difference. Registration is quick and free.

This is an Open Source project and I welcome all of your inputs, whether its articles, links, videos, photos, plant info, permaculture success stories, community projects, cool discoveries, suggestions on website tools I should develop for the permaculture community, and comments on anything you found of interest.
Please use the Contact Us Form to get in touch.

Feel free to browse the articles, step through the glossary, or use the search engine to find whatever it is that interests you. I will also be adding new articles, site features, and plants to the Permaculture Plant Database on a regular basis.

I am also available for Permaculture Consultations, garden and farm designs, and Permaculture education and training.

You can keep yourself up to date with news and website developments by subscribing to our "FeedMe" RSS Feed.

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Mandlebrot - a sandwich or the universe in a glass?

The miracle of Lemons

Companion Planting with patterns

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Earth Watch

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Our Bees are Dying of unnatural causes

Categories: BiologyPermaculture

Description: Honey Bee populations are declining at rates of up to 70% in areas of the U.S. and Europe. The major reasons for this catastrophic decline in honeybees is the dangerous and unsustainable farming and mining practices prevalent across the U.S., Europe, and Australia. Together they create a deadly concoction of air pollutants that impede brain function in animals and insects, and cause sterility, degradation of the immune system, disorientation and death...

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A bi-product of fraccing (Gas mining), is the process of gassing off of waste water in large ponds, which sends hundreds of known chemical pollutants into the atmosphere. Over a dozen of these are classified as neurotoxins, affecting the brain function of animals and insects. Thousdands of disoriented bees with compromised immune systems leave the hive never to return.
Biocides that are sprayed on a large scale on agricultural farms have a long-term effect on insect populations, killing off all the beneficial organisms as well as the 'pests'. Neonicotinoid pesticides - now the most widely used in the world, harm the honeybees' sensitive nervous, immune and digestive systems causing colony collapse disorder (CCD), vulnerability to viral and fungal infections, disorientation and a slow death.
The introduction of Genetically Modified (GM) crops - "killer potatoes" and GMO Corn being examples, has bred a multitude of super-pests - bacteria, viruses, and parasites resilient to biocides that can easily manage to overwhelm sensitive honeybee immune systems.
With the continuing "fluoridation" of our water supply, industrial farming and mining practices, our air, water and food crops are consistently exposed to neurotoxins and biocides. It's no wonder our immune systems are failing, not to mention the bees!

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Global Warming - how solid is the science?

Categories: Science

Description: Russian scientists are claiming that the "Global Warming" phenomenon is based on faulty science! The globe is currently going through a natural (cyclical) cooling period, and there are no signs of upper atmospheric temperature increases, as the proponents of the global warming phenomena would have us believe. The crazy weather is due to man-made destruction of natural ecosystems and ancient forests, that have upheld a balance for thousands of years. This further raises the question of why the Carbon Tax is being introduced in Australia.
PDF download: The real science and politics behind the Carbon Tax.

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Dr. Christine Jones writes:

A soil carbon improvement of only 0.5% in the top 30 centimetres of 2% of Australia’s estimated 445 million hectares of agricultural land would safely and permanently sequester the entire nation’s annual emissions of carbon dioxide. Sequestering atmospheric carbon in soil as humified organic carbon would also restore natural fertility, increase the efficiency of water-use, markedly improve farm productivity, provide resilience to climatic variation and inject much-needed cash into struggling rural economies.

The process whereby gaseous CO₂ is converted to soil humus has been occurring for millions of years. Indeed, it is the only mechanism by which topsoil can form. When soils lose carbon, they also lose structure, water-holding capacity and nutrient availability.

Understanding soil building is thus fundamentally important to future viability of agriculture. Rebuilding carbon-rich topsoil is also the only practical and beneficial option for productively removing billions of tonnes of excess CO₂ from the atmosphere.

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Microwaves turn food into toxic slush

Categories: ScienceHealth

Description: When cooking your food in a microwave, intense blasts of radiation break open the protective layer of cells, reducing their electrical potential and disrupting energetic flows. These damaged cells break into L-shapes, releasing mycotoxins into the bloodstream when injested. Mycotoxins are poison to our bodies, damaging organs, tissue, and muscle fibres and eventually leading to a chronic state of dis-ease.

- paraphrased from 'Secrets of an Alkaline Body' by Annie Jubb & David Jubb.

Coffee and Chronic Sleep Depravation

Categories: ScienceHealth

Description: The effects of coffee last up to 20 hours in the human body. This means that when you go to sleep, your brain is still 'buzzing' from the effects, keeping your brain locked in Beta brainwave activity (alertness), which is fast-paced and predominantly 'chaotic'. Caffeine further suppresses Theta and Alpha brain waves, causing additional stress and anxiety...

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If we go to sleep while we are in this alert state, we do not get enough deep sleep (stages 3 and 4 of our sleeping cycle produce mainly Delta brainwave activity), and our REM sleep (the dreamstate) is also affected. We wake up un-rested, usually without being able to remember our dreams, and we consume more coffee to wake us up so we can function at work. Drinking coffee on a daily basis soon causes chronic sleep depravation and our vital bodily functions are over-stressed and disrupted, eventually leading to dis-ease. Drinking tea does not have the same effects.

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Coming Soon / In Development

Categories: SciencePermaculture

Description:

In order to help good citizens all over the world quickly access reliable information over the web, and to assist in the design and planning of their lifestyles and residences, enthusiastic Permaculture supporters and website members are welcomed to contribute to the expansion of the Permaculture Plants Database.

This module is now LIVE! You need to be logged in order to use it: Add a Plant!

Scheduler for Garden and Farm maintenance tasks and SMS tips & reminders to help you manage your property with the changing seasons.

Advanced Plant Database Search, allowing you to search and match by climate / hardiness zone, planting time, blooming and fruiting seasons, height and spread of plants, their permacultural uses, nitrogen fixation, and many more options!

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Below is a short introductory video to Permaculture by my Permaculture teacher, Geoff Lawton. (3min 22sec)

Nature by Numbers - patterns, sacred geometry and mathematics are found throughout nature. Short movie by Christobal Vila. (3min 44sec)