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Thinking about Establishing a Home Permaculture Garden in 2022? 6 Key Benefits You Shouldn’t Overlook
Photo by Beth Macdonald on Unsplash Thinking about Establishing a Home Permaculture Garden in 2022? 6 Key Benefits You Shouldn’t Overlook Have you ever wondered why humans have to invest so much time and energy into growing plants that grow all by themselves in nature? Permaculture gardening may be the answer. Permaculture is a style of agriculture that aims to […]
A review of three books: Futuresteading, The Good Life and Costa’s World
A review of three books: Futuresteading, The Good Life and Costa’s World It’s not often I comment on the constant flow of new books about green lifestyle, growing and wellbeing but three recently released titles had me thinking about the issue of communicating the good news to inspire and motivate people to adopt and adapt […]
An environmental sociologist explains how permaculture offers a path to climate justice
Image by Local Food Initiative, flickr. Permaculture practitioners manage their gardens or farms in ways inspired by the sustainability and resilience of healthy natural ecosystems. An environmental sociologist explains how permaculture offers a path to climate justice Big farming is both a victim of climate change and a contributor. Droughts, floods and soil degradation threaten crop yields. […]
Emergency #Permaculture: Are You Prepared?
Emergency #Permaculture: Are You Prepared?
Creating a Preferred Future
Creating a Preferred Future
Pandemic Brooding: Brown Tech in New Clothing
Pandemic Brooding: Brown Tech in New Clothing Parts of this essay have already been published as ‘Pandemic brooding: can the permaculture movement survive the first severe test of the energy descent future?’ In this longer essay, David Holmgren explores the responses to the pandemic in light of his Future Scenarios work. Extract: I think it is important […]
Pandemic Brooding: Can the Permaculture movement survive the first severe test of the energy descent future?
Pandemic Brooding: Can the Permaculture movement survive the first severe test of the energy descent future? As the pandemic rolled into its second year, I became concerned that the psychosocial fallout of the pandemic, and especially the response at the global and local levels, could represent an existential threat to permaculture and kindred movements. At […]
Online vs. Onsite Permaculture Courses: Which is Better?
Online vs. Onsite Permaculture Courses: Which is Better? When deciding which permaculture course to take, the question at the forefront of it is whether to go with an online and onsite (in-person) version. Like so many things in the world (and permaculture design), the answer to this is variable, dependent on individual circumstances, abilities, and […]
Permaculture
Permaculture A design system that offers a radical reimagination of the possible Permaculture is a design system that mimics the patterns of flourishing ecosystems to create ecologically regenerative human societies. First developed by Australians Bill Mollison and David Holmgren in the 1970s, permaculture takes inspiration from Indigenous and ‘traditional’ agrarian practices. Mollison and Holmgren created […]
Permaculture design for Stephan Schrotter at Cairo Montenotte, Italy
The House Permaculture design for Stephan Schrotter at Cairo Montenotte, Italy This article is in three parts. The entire series will take us through a Permaculture Design Project at a property in Italy. Firstly we will look at how the project was observed, then the analysis that was undertaken before starting the design. Holistic Goal […]
Why Permaculture?
Image by author Why Permaculture? It’s been several years since I first stumbled upon permaculture, and several years minus a couple of months since I started doing my best to practice it. Many people have a similar story, and my guess is, like me, they’ve been asked dozens, possibly hundreds, of times what permaculture is. But, it’s […]
Permaculture Alternatives to Waste-to-Energy (W2E)
Permaculture Alternatives to Waste-to-Energy (W2E) Waste-to-energy (W2E), particularly incineration, is being promoted as a good alternative to landfills – it gets rid of all that plastic we use and generate energy, right? In this article I’d like to first outline what’s wrong with W2E and then talk about permaculture alternatives. So What Is Wrong With […]
Permaculture and Money – Part 3
Permaculture and Money – Part 3 The Practice of Being Open In part 1(1) of this series, we explored the relationship between money, psychology and violence, while in part 2(2) we looked at some ways in which the stories we tell as a culture to do with money could be seen as encouraging destructive patterns of behaviour. Looby […]
Permaculture and Money – Part 2
Permaculture and Money – Part 2 Living and Giving Abundance In part 1 of this article series we looked at the curious concept of money and how it can be seen to be contributing to the institutional violence of much of modern society. This part will look at some alternative ways of viewing and interacting with money, […]
