Venkat was a pioneering permaculture farmer in India who passed away in 2011. He was known for his vast knowledge of permaculture principles and plants, which he shared with others through counseling and teaching. Venkat lived simply and found comfort in nature, healing himself with natural remedies and avoiding pain killers. He dedicated his life to developing sustainable systems through permaculture and establishing food sovereignty, leaving behind a legacy of knowledge to continue this important work.
Permaculture dissertation 'A garden for the future'Leen Gorissen
We need to rethink the way in which we produce food. Permaculture designs edible systems in harmony with #nature instead of at the expense of nature. And the beauty of this approach is: everyone can do it!
Applying the principles of permaculture in schoolyard projects reinforces values of resourcefulness, stewardship, and sustainability
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For more information, Please see websites below:
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Organic Edible Schoolyards & Gardening with Children
http://scribd.com/doc/239851214
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Double Food Production from your School Garden with Organic Tech
http://scribd.com/doc/239851079
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Free School Gardening Art Posters
http://scribd.com/doc/239851159`
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Companion Planting Increases Food Production from School Gardens
http://scribd.com/doc/239851159
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Healthy Foods Dramatically Improves Student Academic Success
http://scribd.com/doc/239851348
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City Chickens for your Organic School Garden
http://scribd.com/doc/239850440
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Simple Square Foot Gardening for Schools - Teacher Guide
http://scribd.com/doc/239851110
Why is permaculture a valuable alternative to conventional "factory" farming? Upon answering this question, this presentation highlights examples of a healthy permaculture system. This was used as a 30 minute "Intro to Permaculture" class taught to college engineers.
Scope and Importance
•
Need for Public Awareness
• Depleting Nature of Environmental resources such as Soil, Water, Minerals,
and Forests.
• Global Environmental Crisis related to Population, Water, Sanitation and Land.
• Ecosystem: Concept, Classification, Structure of Ecosystem, overview of Food
chain, Food web and Ecological Pyramid
Permaculture dissertation 'A garden for the future'Leen Gorissen
We need to rethink the way in which we produce food. Permaculture designs edible systems in harmony with #nature instead of at the expense of nature. And the beauty of this approach is: everyone can do it!
Applying the principles of permaculture in schoolyard projects reinforces values of resourcefulness, stewardship, and sustainability
`
For more information, Please see websites below:
`
Organic Edible Schoolyards & Gardening with Children
http://scribd.com/doc/239851214
`
Double Food Production from your School Garden with Organic Tech
http://scribd.com/doc/239851079
`
Free School Gardening Art Posters
http://scribd.com/doc/239851159`
`
Companion Planting Increases Food Production from School Gardens
http://scribd.com/doc/239851159
`
Healthy Foods Dramatically Improves Student Academic Success
http://scribd.com/doc/239851348
`
City Chickens for your Organic School Garden
http://scribd.com/doc/239850440
`
Simple Square Foot Gardening for Schools - Teacher Guide
http://scribd.com/doc/239851110
Why is permaculture a valuable alternative to conventional "factory" farming? Upon answering this question, this presentation highlights examples of a healthy permaculture system. This was used as a 30 minute "Intro to Permaculture" class taught to college engineers.
Scope and Importance
•
Need for Public Awareness
• Depleting Nature of Environmental resources such as Soil, Water, Minerals,
and Forests.
• Global Environmental Crisis related to Population, Water, Sanitation and Land.
• Ecosystem: Concept, Classification, Structure of Ecosystem, overview of Food
chain, Food web and Ecological Pyramid
Summarizes the results of a community-based participatory research study about lead contamination in urban soil.
Urban agriculture is becoming more widespread, but concerns remain about the safety of vegetables grown in urban soil. Lead contamination was found to vary significantly among different locations within a single yard.
Challenges To Women’s Access To Natural ResourcesGilbert Makore
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In this CIFOR-hosted session of the 2014 IUFRO World Congress, experts examined the implications of forest and land tenure reforms in Nicaragua and elsewhere (in Asia, Africa and Latin America) with emphasis on local institutions, governance, livelihoods, and gender dynamics.
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ARMM-DILG Assistant Secretary Pearlsia Ali-Dans presented the status of entrepreneurial development of rural and tribal women during the 11th General Assembly of PFLCW in Dipolog City
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Presented by CIFOR Scientist Amy Duchelle on 14 December 2016 at a side event on Mainstreaming Gender Equality and Social Inclusion at CBD COP13 in Cancun, Mexico.
My name is Jo Gillies and I’m the principal and founder of Archisoul Architects based in Manly.
I have to be frank and say that I’m NO expert on Permaculture but have a basic knowledge in it – enough to combine what I do know about Sacred Geometry and how best you can integrate it into your garden and home. The idea of today’s workshop is to open up your hearts and minds to the endless possibilities of this amazing subject of Sacred Geometry and how it could be applied in your life and interests.
Food Forest Design: Strategies for Green Urban InfrastructureJim O'Donnell
This power point presentation and all photos therein are copyright Jim O'Donnell 2010. This presentation details the possibility of greening our urban environments by using permaculture techniques.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
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After immersing yourself in the blue book and its red counterpart, attending DDD-focused conferences, and applying tactical patterns, you're left with a crucial question: How do I ensure my design is effective? Tactical patterns within Domain-Driven Design (DDD) serve as guiding principles for creating clear and manageable domain models. However, achieving success with these patterns requires additional guidance. Interestingly, we've observed that a set of constraints initially designed for training purposes remarkably aligns with effective pattern implementation, offering a more ‘mechanical’ approach. Let's explore together how Object Calisthenics can elevate the design of your tactical DDD patterns, offering concrete help for those venturing into DDD for the first time!
3. VENKAT – THE IDEOLOGUE, FARMER, HEALER AND COMFORTER
Venkat immortal through his Permaculture pioneering in India
would be there forever holding our hands and comforting us ,in
the knowledge of permaculture & its spread ahead in the country
He was always there to turn to for advice, information, comfort and
love ,carefully masked by his wry smile and kittened brows
A mine of Knowledge & A Nature’s boon
A cynic though who carefully avoided giving advice except about
plants
He always loved growing plants all through his life even when he
worked in hospitals with wounds, injections, and tests going on
for few years during which tended the most beautiful collection of
roses & utility greenery on his balcony
Found ease and comfort with life even before his recent death,
avoided pain killers to get healed only from nature & his nature
works
4. He loved good food and good cooking and was so agile with his
fingers that he could fix almost anything that was broken
He literally lived as if he had taken a vow of poverty and austerity
He loved children and spent many days at vidyaranya waiting for
his favorite grandchild under a tree
While drivers, chowkidars, teachers & children would go to him
for counselling,advice-health, emotional, financial and gardening
matters
He would carefully collect the goat dung under the trees for
manure and clear the grounds of rough stones and glass pieces so
that the children wouldn’t get hurt playing
A pocket full of sweets for the kids who came running to him hurt
[limbs or feelings] was his nature who still now leaves a life full of
love for all of us, and a life time worth of Perma knowledge bounty
for the society
5. PERMACULTURE
Permaculture movement has no central structure but has
a strong sense of shared work towards evolving
sustainable, ethical and viable systems for earth and
people care
It was initially conceived as a frame work for a more
permanent basis for agriculture rather than just the
raising of annual crops
The idea was a beneficial assembly of multi—crop
elements of perennial trees, shrubs, annuals [food crops],
herbs, vegetables, useful weeds , fungi, tuber crops with
integration of animals, aimed towards household and
community self-reliance for food sufficiency
6. However later Permaculture is being percieved much more than
food sufficiency at household level
Self-sufficiency in food becomes meaningless unless people have
access to land, information and financial resources
Central to permaculture is the relationship humans should have
towards natural resources and their wise, ethical and judicious
utilization so that posterity is not saddled with the consequences of
our irresponsible conduct
7. Today permaculture has come to
mean a whole life system
encompassing various strategies for
people to acquire all those
resources, including access to land
needed to evolve self-financing and
self-managed systems to provide
for all their material and non-
material needs, without depleting,
polluting and destroying the
natural resources of the biosphere
PERMACULTURE TODAY
8. PERMACULTURE - GLOBAL
Today permaculture has made a
start all over the world, in some
aspect or other expect in three
countries of the world
Except in Uruguay, Afghanistan, and
one African country
There are permaculture groups,
organizations, and individual
efforts undertaken however small
to heal the earth
World through Perma Knowledge
has become more responsible for
their actions and enabling others to
do likewise
9. “Permaculture is the conscious design and
maintenance of agriculturally productive ecosystems
which have the diversity, stability, and resilience of
natural ecosystems. It is harmonious integration of
landscape and people providing their food, energy,
shelter and other material and non-material needs in
a sustainable way”
“Permaculture design is a system of assembling conceptual,
material and strategic components, in a pattern which
functions to benefit life in all its forms”
Permaculture defined and its uses
10. “The philosophy behind permaculture is one of the working with,
rather than against, nature; of protracted and thoughtful
observation rather than protracted and thoughtless action; of
looking at system in all their functions, rather than asking only one
yield of them; and of allowing systems to demonstrate their own
evolution”
- Bill Mollison
Permaculture, A designer’s manual
Based on this philosophy, the Ethical Basis – the code of conduct
for people – is evolved and founded on
PERMACULTURE PHILOSOPHY
11. CARE OF THE EARTH:
provisions for all life systems
to continue and multiply
CARE OF THE PEOPLE:
provision for people to access
all those resources necessary
for their existence
INVEST SURPLUSES:
for above two:
varied are the needs for earth
care; varied are the needs for
the people care
All have to be attended to and
solved
12. PERMACULTURE DECIDES ON SOME PRIORITY AREAS OF
HUMAN CONDUCT
To Re-structure, and Re-generate the areas of our habitation and
settlements, so that they provide us all our basic needs and fully
supports us
Thus providing ourselves all the necessities from these areas of
habitation, then atleast we humans need not look to encroach all
other ecosystems
It will result in true earth care
13. No amount of ingenuity,
‘science and technology’ of
humans, can ever replace or
substitute any of the natural
and life-sustaining processes
of the plant kingdom
Permaculture aims to operate
these natural processes in our
regenerated agricultural
It is a human intervention,
hence its needed to keep
agriculture as closer to nature
as possible & without
trespassing the laws that
govern nature
14. APPLIED PERMACULTURE
What differentiates and distinguishes Permaculture from
other systems of Agriculture is that ….
It is a CONSCIOUSLY DESIGNED systems approach
Why should we design?
15. The main considerations are…
To conserve our energies in the system [internal]
To cope with energies entering the system [external] like sun,
wind, rain, etc
To suit climate, site , soils, and topography So that the system do
not degrade, deplete, pollute or destroy other natural resources
So that these systems, fuelled by the sun , should produce not only
their own system needs, but also the needs of the people creating
or controlling them
Thus they sustain themselves and those who construct them and
hence become sustainable systems
16. If we are to build such Sustainable systems, we do not have
HUMAN MADE models to learn from and be guided
Human models are sparse and keep us still in the dark
“ SOLUTIONS IN FLOW WITH NATURE ARE THE ONLY WAY
OUT TO LIGHT “
Permaculture is based on the observation of the working of
Natural Ecosystems reinforced by traditional wisdom
The problem that confronts us is…..
17. Careful observation of the Natural Ecosystems still existing, especially the
tropical and temperature forest systems, can enable us to overcome
many of the problems
The feature of these forest systems is that
They have remained highly productive of biomass;
They have existed for millions of years
They are very resilient
They have been self managed systems without humans interference
This could be one place where we can look for all information resources
while designing our areas of settlement and habitation
In addition we can draw on the traditional wisdom of such societies that
have survived without degrading the natural resources on which their
life depends
SOLUTION
18. A look at natural forest systems
The major thing that captures us is these are SELF-MANAGED
The following are some observations;
Many species of plant and animals are always found together.
Mixed crops and mixed farming is the rule, NO MONOCULTURE
Rarely or no bare and exposed soil
Always ground covered either by living plants r dead and fallen
litter
Heavy rainfall is conversed and impounded into various layers of
the soil & after growth requirements are met, the excess of water
is transferred to steams and rivers
There is no soil erosion, apparent by the clear water of the
streams and rivers
The forest manures itself, all the litter fall of leaves, bark and the
accumulation of plant and animal residues get converted by
fungi, bacteria and hordes of micro and macro-organisms, back
into nutrients required for growth
19. There is no generation of any WASTE
All dead and decaying plant and animal residues are
RECYCLED back into the soil
The mineral matter needed for growth is mined by the
deep roots of TREES and through their leaf fall etc. all
added to the soil
A mature tree sheds many times its weight during its
life. Trees shield the ground from the impact of rain
and the hot sun. Trees converse and build and aerate
the soils
There are no mineral deficiencies and great deal of
humus by the living soil
There is always a large fertility reserve in the top
layers through the continuous production of humus
by the living soil
20. The wealth of information resources and the education
we receive from the forest systems
Diversity and polyculture, water and soil
management, integration of animals, no generation
of any wastes, recycling of all animals and plant
residues back into the soils ,abundance of fertility,
long living and self management
All this can be beneficially utilized for re generation
of our agriculture
“Abundance“
21. The Only True Wealth left to mankind is the Forest Wealth & Our Ancient wisdom
THANK YOU