United Designers project lead and permaculture educator, Rhamis Kent partnered up with SouthWoods to design and build green space at Zaytuna College in Berke...

This was the best possible way to see Alaska's South east coast. A small ship and the small group of 50 on the tour. We saw things close-up.

The next phase of ecological restoration is building new habitat to replace those long gone. Dredging materials from shipping lanes is being collected and mo...

We were invited to participate in an evaluation visit to Haiti by Commonland and the Red Cross of the Netherlands. The Red Cross of the Netherlands was movin...

In July 2018 I traveled to the island of Molokai Hawaii for a site assessment of the newly available land of Molokai Ranch. For sale for the first time in de...

Traveling to Lisbon and then by train to the town of Oliveira de condé we spent 5 days walking the scorched land of Wim Willems near Vila Mea. After four ye...

Just south of the ever encroaching Sahel desert, Kebemer was once a fertile land of small farms. Woodlands covered the the unused land and cooled the soils. ...

Early March in 2017 we gathered at La Junquera-El Servalejo near Topares, Spain. The Altiplano region of Spain is a far off and secluded section of Spain d...

Three days in Lacrosse, Wisconsin discussing design and seeing all my farming and permaculture friends. Probably the best educational conference there is f...

The floods have got me remembering New Jersey a week after hurricane Sandy. Having lived with tornadoes, I had never seen the power of a hurricane afterma...

One of my favorite places. Challenging, resilient, an island of survivors in an ever changing and geographically hostile environment. Hurricanes, Earthquakes...