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Third Planet Living Third Planet Living is your guide to sustainable living. Read about environmental issues, and how y Third Planet believes that we all should be thriving.

With drought, with radical climate change, with less time and more responsibilities we can still THRIVE. Third Planet can help you recognize the resources you have all around you and can help you identify ways to improve your sustainability and turn on abundance! Lectures and workshops available on topics such as:

-Water Harvesting and Reclamation
-Permaculture techniques
-Appropriate technology

-Edible landscape and polyculture design

And can be tailored to your personal interests. Ready to THRIVE with Third Planet?
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Amy Chini holds a B.A. in Environmental Studies from Naropa University in Boulder, CO. She has a Permaculture Design Certificate as well as a certificate in Integrated Ecological Design. She lives with her partner, son, dog, cat, and two chickens in City Heights, San Diego. You can reach her at [email protected]

New info for Laundry-To-Landscape services up now!
07/06/2015

New info for Laundry-To-Landscape services up now!

If you're in the San Diego area and would like to book a consultation or workshop, contact us at [email protected] We offer consultations in: Laundry-to-landscape greywater systems (Click...

06/02/2015

I'd love your thoughts about the final Clean Water Rule: Definitions of "Waters of the United States." I'll post some thoughts in the forthcoming days, but would love to see a discussion here.

05/13/2015

Check out today's post on divestment!

For the last many months, a strong grassroots movement has been making headlines in environmental news. All over the world, organizations are divesting from the fossil fuel industry. This movement...

Form follows function. Use what you've got!
05/06/2015

Form follows function. Use what you've got!

You have a vision. What you want your backyard to look like, or your kitchen, your garden bed, etc. etc. You start mentally designing, and suddenly those dollar signs start racking up. All that ...

Don't you just love seeing seemingly insurmountable obstacles leapt right over?
04/29/2015

Don't you just love seeing seemingly insurmountable obstacles leapt right over?

A pair of German women fed up with a packaging 'overdose' and with a passion for 'precycling' founded 'Original Unverpackt' (Originally Unpackaged) in Berlin.

Check out these tips from Lauren Singer on how to obtain a zero-waste lifestyle. And visit her blog trashisfortossers.c...
04/28/2015

Check out these tips from Lauren Singer on how to obtain a zero-waste lifestyle. And visit her blog trashisfortossers.com for even more!

My name is Lauren. I'm a 23-year-old girl living in NYC and I don't make trash. For real. No garbage bin, no landfill. Nada. I know what you are thinking. This girl must be a total hippie. Or a

Here's today's post on Polyculture design! Share if you like it!
04/28/2015

Here's today's post on Polyculture design! Share if you like it!

Polycultures are two or more species of plants growing together. Many of us have heard of the"Three Sisters" polyculture- corn, beans, and squash. In this polyculture, beans 'fix nitrogen' in the ...

Please check out the latest post on Food Justice! As always, share away!(Photo credit: Sandy Huffaker for The New York ...
04/23/2015

Please check out the latest post on Food Justice! As always, share away!

(Photo credit: Sandy Huffaker for The New York Times)

Last year, in my neighborhood of City Heights, our last major grocery store shut its doors. Albertson's took their ball and went home, adding the 80,000 residents of City Heights to the list of fo...

Happy Earth Day everyone! Check out this post on rainwater harvesting and share, share, share!
04/22/2015

Happy Earth Day everyone! Check out this post on rainwater harvesting and share, share, share!

Wanna know something cool? My little house in City Heights sheds about 7,700 gallons of water every year. With such a larger percentage of city water use going out to our landscapes, imagine what ...

Don't have time to cook from scratch, check out this quick tip!
04/21/2015

Don't have time to cook from scratch, check out this quick tip!

Sometimes, it's hard to cook from scratch. Not because we're bad cooks, or because staples are expensive (they save SO much money!) TIME is the culprit. We get home, we're tired, and frankly we don...

Check out this new article on permaculture!
04/20/2015

Check out this new article on permaculture!

Permaculture. You've heard the word, you have a vague idea: something to do with farming or gardening or... Permaculture is a design system. It can be, and perhaps is most often, applied to lands...

Check out the latest water post!
04/18/2015

Check out the latest water post!

If you live in California, you've undoubtedly heard the drums beating DROUGHT! Pictures of dried-up reservoirs, dead rivers, and receding wetlands are scary. News headlines informing us that Cali...

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