Hydrological Consulting in Las Majadillas
Cortijo Las Majadillas, a farm with a regenerative vision 600 hectares.A farmhouse.Hundreds of cork oak trees.60 cows of various breeds.5 horses.2 streams, 1 river, 2 springs.One small reservoir and one larger one.About 1,000 mm of annual rainfall.Several geological faults.Three generations of livestock management.Constant hunting activity.Gully erosion, waterlogged areas, and parched areas.Livestock mortality due to drought.Insufficient […]
The 3 Ethical Principles of Permaculture
Permaculture has certain distinctive features that set it apart from other design disciplines focused on sustainable development (regeneration is inherent to it), and one of them is definitely its ethical framework. The Three Ethics These three principles help us make decisions, design strategies, and choose techniques that are aligned with systems thinking and, therefore, with […]
Hydrological landscape design
WATER IS LIFE The carrying capacity of an ecosystem is the relationship between the availability of available resources and the number of living organisms that can take advantage of them. Although the evaluation of this “Carrying Capacity” is considered “multifactorial”, at the base of every food chain and of every resource availability is… Water. The […]
CDP #ONLINEKNOWLEDGE
Design for Resilience in your own Integral House This is a course to learn how to Design and Implement Regenerative Solutions for Future scenarios. We will lower the ecological footprint of our homes and increase the level of our personal and community resilience. We will reach out to you as you are introduced to Home […]
Typha latifolia, purifier par excellence
What aquatic plants do we use in the aquatic planter (the secondary treatment) of our SIRAR? Today we see Typha Latifolia or broadleaf cattail. Typha latifolia is a perennial herbaceous plant that grows in wetlands and shallow waters. It is native to North and South America, Eurasia and Africa, and has a distinctive cylindrical, sausage-shaped […]
Gifts for World WATER Day
Water comes from the sky, from the ground…or by truck. March 22nd is World WATER Day. This same week, the UN is also meeting in New York to discuss the topic, in order to accelerate the Water Agenda and be able to cover SDG6. In 2022 we have experienced the hottest summer since 1950 according […]
The 12 Points of Leverage
“Eureka!” “Give me a lever and I’ll move the world.” These two phrases must be the most trending topics in the history of physics and mathematics. Archimedes did not have Tik-Tok or Twitter or Instagram but still, or thanks to it, these phrases endure in the collective unconscious of the scientific community. Curiously, this mathematician […]
Applying Permaculture Principles to My Diet
In a previous post, I applied three principles of permaculture to my diet as part of a series of posts on holistic health that I hope to write. Today I want to look at a few more principles. Get a Return Multi-functional and grow your own food “You can’t work on an empty stomach,” says […]
Design for me
Egocentric? Maybe it’s frowned upon. Designing for me, how bad it sounds. Shouldn’t we be designing for Life, for the Regeneration of Bioregions, for Community? And if we say “also”, it indicates our interdependence. It becomes visible that we are part of a larger system, and this in turn of several even larger fractals. We […]
The Culture of White Supremacy
Together with the Translation Circle of the Permaculture CoLab, we have translated this text on the topic of white supremacy. by Tema Okun. dRworks. dRworksBook – Home (dismantlingracism.org) Original version: Okun – white sup culture.doc (whitesupremacyculture.info) This is a list of characteristics of white supremacist culture that appear in our organizations. This culture is powerful […]