EUGENE RESILIENT BLOG

Laura Allen shared her favorite way to use greywater: from the laundry machine. You can reuse its greywater without changing your household plumbing, while also using its pump to place the water where you want it. Presenter: The KEPW program Talk Is Cheap recently interviewed an expert on greywater about the many benefits to fish and trees from reusing water from our homes. Here’s KEPW producer Curtis Blankinship: Curtis Blankinship (KEPW): All right, I’m here with Laura A

“I have witnessed my garden become a tool for the education, the transformation of my neighborhood. To change a community, you need to change the composition of the soil. Gardening is the most therapeutic and defiant act you can do, especially in the inner city. I want us all to be ecolutionaries, renegades, gangstas, gangsta gardeners. Get gangsta with your shovel, and let that be your weapon of choice” — Ron Finley, Guerilla Gardening expert, “The Gangsta Gardener   With gr

by Daisy Simmons Wildfire smoke is becoming an increasingly serious public health threat across the western U.S. And it’s getting worse each year as a consequence of climate change. Here, as part of your climate adaptation toolbox, are some tips for coping with wildfire smoke, which may last days and even weeks after a wildfire event. 1. Know the health risks. Wildfire smoke is a complex mix of gases and fine particles produced from burning materials like trees, buildings and

Introduction to Permaculture by Andrew Millison is available for free download and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted. See the introduction excerpt below: "The permaculture perspective has more resonance now than at any other time since the term ‘permaculture’ was coined in 1978. The Paris Climate Agreement of 2016 has the world admitting it needs to turn civilization onto a different road. P