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More than ever, American cities are casting their gazes across the Atlantic for fresh ideas and inspiration when it comes to making bicycling safer, more convenient and more practical for everyday short trips. No place in the world has more experience with bicycle transportation than the Netherlands, where more than a quarter of every trip made is on two wheels.

Working is one thing, sitting is another. We decide we had enough, we accumulated far too much scrap wood, and not nearly enough furniture. So we got to work. Let us know what you think? Have you ever built something out of pallets?

This summer P3 Permaculture Design and Valhalla are collaborating to bring you some practical techniques in permaculture that you can build at home, on your balcony and back yards. These topics are intermediate level so there is details available that we would not cover in an introduction to these topics.

David Letterman gives us his take in fracking. Posted by Grant MacLaren. Perhaps you’ve notice the similarities between Tobacco advertising and that of the Natural Gas Industry. Years ago the tobacco industry vehemently denied any connection between smoking and health issues.

What if every time you searched online you could plant a tree? It’s Possible. Ecosia.org is a search engine that donates 80% of its profits to planting trees with your clicks. Yes you heard correctly – trees will be planted simply because you would use Ecosia as your search engine of choice.

At the fifth and final Tar Sands Healing Walk, indigenous communities on the front-lines of tar sands extraction lead a spiritual march through a landscape of poisonous lakes, dead earth, open-pit mines, and refineries. More thoughts on this in my write-up via VICE: http://www.vice.com/en_ca/read/inside-the-tar-sands-last-healing-walk-519

Click here for the full course by Toby Hemenway: http://organiclifeguru.com/course/food-forest-design-care-for-cites-and-suburbs/ Toby Hemenway shows what food forest design is and how to understand and apply permaculture principles. The full course is available at http://organiclifeguru.com Food forests, or edible forest gardens, are life-filled places that not only provide substantial food for people, but habitat for wildlife, carbon sequestering, biodiversity, natural soil building, beauty and tranquility, and a host of other benefits.

Valhalla is a sustainable farm 15 minutes from downtown montreal, quebec canada; the big question is; should we grow hemp? Let us know by liking this video, we appreciate the support. be sure to like Orvert’s facebook page :D https://www.facebook.com/groupeorvert

Germ’s take on on Lost In The Elements Watch Both; Let us know what you think http://youtu.be/BOQYxaXGQNg

Grow your potatoes to the sky and multiple your yield. Valhalla’s Viv walks Lo and the cock through the process. https://valhallamovement.com

Valhalla visits Emmett Brennan to ask questions about Emmett’s and Costa Boutsikaris’ new film Inhabit. Inhabit is a feature length documentary introducing permaculture. It presents a vast array of projects, concepts, and people, and it translates the diversity of permaculture into something that can be understood by an equally diverse audience.

The Venus Project, Jacque Fresco – Talk in Stockholm, 2010 Official site http://www.thevenusproject.com Videos we recommend: * This shit’s got to go! http://youtu.be/t7PZVYG57UQ * Visiting The Venus Project Part 1 http://youtu.be/In55SZDDxQ4 * Visiting The Venus Project Part 2 http://youtu.be/bTpvfrVAoPM