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Watch the Full Video for FREE http://bit.ly/1mqJlxQ Clip from the new "Surviving Collapse - Designing your way to Abundance" is a story on how Geoff Lawton discovered permaculture and what he did to prepare for any global crisis. Survival is not just about hoarding food but building stability and abundance into a natural food forest system. Geoff takes you on a fly-over of his property and explains the things you need to be aware of - should an economic or social upheaval destroy your water, food and electricity systems, you need to be able to cope with any disaster. Could you survive? Geoff says its possible. In fact he's doing and teaching it right now around the world. Come along for the ride. See whats possible. Low tech solutions create abundance when partnered with natural systems that are life enhancing. Watch the Full 34 minute Video for FREE http://bit.ly/1mqJlxQ

Alejandro Velez and Nikhil Arora, co-founders of Back to the Roots LLC in Oakland, Calif., have grown a business out of other companies' trash. They manufacture grow-at-home oyster mushroom kits filled with used coffee grounds. WSJ's Lauren Rudser reports. Video originally aired November 13, 2011.

A no till permaculture garden using sheet mulch. Year 3 of establishment. I forgot to show the Sea Kale (perennial), Banana Yucca (perennial) and Siberian Pea Shrub (perennial nitrogen fixer) that work well here in Denver. Garden is watered with a drip system (about $350 to set up- I already had a sprinkler system installed). I used local fresh manure, cardboard, newspaper and free wood chips from XCEL to get the majority of sheet mulch built. I now use "natural fines" mulch from a local landscaping company to add to the top of the sheet mulch in the spring. I also added rock dust this year which I believe is helping with the pests (aphids) that I struggled with last year. I did weed the tree of heaven sprouts and bindweed earlier in the season to keep it under control. Weeds are fine to leave in if you wish, but very easy to pull out of the deep mulch. David Braden from Living Systems helped me do the initial design and drip set up. http://bit.ly/1ilC3yj. I'm also inspi...

Government Gone Rampant - Action Alert: Boone, North Carolina: For decades, Eustace Conway has lived an independent, sustainable life, building shelter for himself on his land, growing his own food, setting up outhouse facilities, composting, and allowing others to learn these methods first-hand so that we may once again have a populous versed in the healthy manner of primitive survival skills. After a preliminary visit from the local Planning & Inspections department, several independent local government agencies together performed a raid on Mr. Conway's property, and now the Watauga County Health Department has ordered a cease & desist on Mr. Conway's educational activities, and the Planning & Inspections Department has cited many "violations" on the property, as well as ordered that Eustace Conway bring his structures up to code, or demolish the structures on his own property. Some of the code citations include using unmarked lumber for his constructio...