Guests can sleep in mud houses and learn about permaculture, sustainable building and geodesic domes on a four-week to four-month English-language "Green Apprenticeship".

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For those of us who have actually worked on a mainframe, the scenario above (with all of its implied colorful language) is probably familiar staring at the blinky green cursor and wondering what, if anything, was happening.

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