Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Best of the Permaculture Drylands Magazine - Now Online!

Founded by Scott Pittman circa 1986, PDJ was (and remains) the only publication in the world with the specific focus on Drylands Permaculture. Published for 11 years (1986 - 1997) by the Permaculture Drylands Institute, operating out of Arizona and New Mexico, this publication has lots to offer to permaculture students even 10 years after its final issue was delivered.

Permaculture Institute has posted most of articles on its website for free public access.

GARDENING/SOILS/PLANTS:
Bermuda Grass Wars - Replacing the Lawn
Coppicing and Prescott Poplar Coppice
Enriching Soil Through Cover Cropping
First Garden
From Organic Gardening to Do Nothing Gardening
Keyholes for Dryland Gardens
Making Peace with Bermuda
Sheet Mulching Strategy for Healthy Soil
Walnut Hackberry Guilds
PLANTS/GUILDS/DRYLAND ECOLOGY:
Finding the Hidden Garden by Gary Paul Nabhan
Fourwing Saltbush Useful Pioneer
Using Edible Flowers
Garlic Trials
Harvest the Desert Cholla Buds
Jatoba Staff of Life
Multi-purpose Tree Crops for Drylands
Mushrooms in Drylands
Pinyon Juniper Guild Associations
Planting in Extreme Conditions
Plants Under Pressure
Prickly Delight
A Soil Building Project
Recipes
Surrounded by Food
Grow More by Paying Attention to Microclimates
Sonoran Desert Grain Rotation
ECOLOGICAL RESTORATION/ WATER IN THE DRYLANDS
Gabions A Reclamation Tool
Microphytic Crusts - Topsoil of the Desert
Restoring the Sonoran Desert at Barnes Butte Bajada
Revitalizing Barren Ground - A Succession Model
Sand Dune Stabilization
Swaling Tips
Sponge Ladders
Use Imprinting To Reverse Desertification
Forest Managaement in Permaculture
The Bunyip Demystified
Build Sand Tanks for Dryland Water Storage
Collect Rainwater from Roofs
Construct a Dirt Catchment for Harvesting Surface Runoff
Constructing Quick and Inexpensive Water Cisterns for Zone One Use
Deep Pipe Irrigation
Designing with Nature - Systems for Wastewater Treatments
Dynamic Water Storage
http://www.permaculture.org/nm/images/uploads/Harvest_Water_With_Microcatchments_by_Dan_Howell.pdf">Harvest Water With Microcatchments
Harvesting Rain Runoff on Your Property/a>
Harvesting Water
Land Restoration - A Watershed Perspective
Sponge Ladders- A Water Harvesting Method for Establishing Perimeter Shelterbelts on Sloped Sites
The Man Who Farms Water
The Runoff Homestead
The Wildfell Ferrocement Tank
Tucson Stormwater Management - Use It Or Lose It
Use it or Lose it
Use Roof Runoff for a Domestic Water Supply
Water Harvesting Traditions in the Desert Southwest
BUILDING:
Third Skin Building Biology
One Mans Straw Bale Odyssey
Building a House for Bread
Building Bale Walls
Building With Salvaged Materials
Combining Natural Building Materials for Energy Efficiency
ANIMALS:
Chicken Story
Pig Pig
The No Tech Chicken House
Animals in Sustainable Systems
INTERVIEWS WITH BILL MOLLISON:
Environment and Economics
Toward an American Permaculture
Travels With Bill
Travels With Bill II
PRACTICAL PERMACULTURE, DESIGN & PHILOSOPHY
A Truly Permaculture Car
Enough is Enough
Living Design
Discovering Zone Zero
Retrofitting Zone Zero
Implementing a Permaculture Design
On a Desert Hawaiian Paradise
Patterning - A Theory of_Natural Design
Stories from Flowering Tree
The Ecology of Management
Permaculture - A Way of Seeing
Permaculture Design and Sequence
Permaculture Purpose
Permaculture - Two Views
Creating Forests - Criss-crossing Our Cities
Zone Analysis in Urban Permaculture
Energy and Permaculture
Starting Small
Use Microclimates for Frost Protection
INVISIBLE STRUCTURES (ECONOMY, POLITICS, EDUCATION, COMMUNITY & OTHERS)
Money_A_Permaculture_Approach_by_Thomas_H_Greco_Jr.pdf
RECYCLING/CREATIVE REUSE/REDUCTION
Imitating Natures Cycles - Recycling
Need a Home? Dive a Dumpster
Recycle in the Workplace
Newspaper Cylinders for Starting Seedlings
Water Conservation in the Home
SOLAR
Solar Still
Dancing the Solar Arc
Live With Solar Energy
Simple Solar Appliances
Simple Solar Oven