Class notes by Amy N. Greywater spectacular at class this week! Finally made it to class early for the first time in a little while. Both my alarm clock and the BART schedule were in sync enough to get me to Berkeley early enough to enjoy some beautiful weather and fresh air. Each time I [...]
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Class notes by Charles D. In the beginning, twelve weeks felt like an eternity. Now that it is all coming to an end, it feels like it’s ending too soon; probably because our class has developed a great collaborative bond. The same collaborative bond we will build as soon as we return to our ow
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Class notes by Charles D. When my teammates and I got together to observe our Center Street project, we simply walked down the street, allowing ourselves to be absorbed in its environment. This is not the first time we walked down this street to go to the farmers market, located two blocks away from
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Class notes by Charles D. Our permaculture course is coming to an end, and I cannot help feeling that the Saturday classes have come and are going at an incredible speed. One thing is clear: I have been learning a lot, and I have been having a great time in the process. Even though I [...]
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Class notes by Charles D. Writing reflection number seven makes me look back into the previous Reflections, and what each of them has to offer in terms of personal experience. I have to say that each of the reflections came with a mixture of excitement and an internal debate on what to say and how [
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Class notes by Trisha C. John Valenzuelos visited our class this week, to talk with us about plants, trees and agroforestry. I have to admit, I’m a bit of a nerd when it comes to botany. I love learning about different plant families, how to identify them, common characteristics, and the wide and
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Class notes by Ron S. Holy crap!! Design presentations. We have so much more work to do. I never thought to include budgets. We will get it done. Joe Kennedy. Natural building and then some. My God! So much information again. I’m going to need a month after this course just to re
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Class notes by Ron S. Kevin Danaher. This guy came on strong and I thought “This is what we need. Someone to go after and force some responsible change.” This guy gave in a few hours more reason for people to change than the entire class. I have more information about what sites
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Class notes by Ron S. Rainwater harvesting and Greywater. What a resource that is mostly wasted. I used to live in southern California and all my norcal friends would complain about how they go to socal and everyone is washing their cars and watering their lawns in summertime while up north everyo
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Class notes by Ron S. We are rapidly heading toward the conclusion of this course. Let’s see..climate. Kind of a broad overview of this with the direction to say pay attention to this. That’s fine. Most people are generally aware of their climate. If you live anywhere in the ba
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