July, 2007 - PacificEdge

A short and incomplete history of permaculture

An article on permaculture's history - from 1972 onwards - supplied to the New Internationalist magazine by Steve Payne and Russ Grayson, 2007...

David Holmgren: design approach to food security

David Holmgren says cities can feed themselves...

The long road in the far north – on the local food speakers trail in northern NSW

MARCH DAYS ARE MILD DAYS in the sleepy northern NSW town of Lismore. And this year they were no different...

Celebrating the conviviality of permaculture

Ian Lillington's approach to permaculture living is hands-on. His 2007 book explains how he went about it and what the permaculture design system means to him and his family...

Being idle – a book for the free spirited

Idling for the free spirited… and those who would like to join them. THIS IS A BOOK for the free of spirit by the man who edits the famous Idler annual. It’s an interesting, easy to real and irreverent book full of unorthodox ideas that are as challenging to conventional lifestyles as they are common […]

Time for a new localism, says Norberg-Hodge

"See education as activism”, says Helena Norberg-Hodge. "Set up social and learning circles. Have groups of 10 to 15 people who like each other’s company discuss issues and do things together...

On Kerouac, Hemingway and a literary friend

First published in 2008. IF YOU HAVE TIME TO HANG AROUND, I’ll tell you a little story about literature and coincidence. It’s not a significant story nor an exciting one, rather a recounting on one of those minor occurrences that sometimes appear in our lives.

Sustainability in Australia – a few ideas

First published: 2007 HE WAS QUITE DEFINITE ABOUT IT: “Saving the world is about saving ourselves. The world does not need us. We need to go native, to stop being a European society in Australia. We need to become an Australian society”.

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