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Social permaculture for a troubled land
What positive things can we take from the experience of others to improve what it is that we do in the world? That is the question that arose when watching a new film about the work of Rosemary Morrow in Afghanistan...
Continue reading...Future scenarios — both scary and hopeful
2. October 2009
With Future Scenarios, David Holmgren refocuses the permaculture design system on the big global issues but suggests a community-based response to addressing them...
Continue reading...Mark Diesendorf — from academia to climate action campaigner
1. September 2009
Mark Diesendorf's journey has led him from academia to social action. His new book is a manual for a citizen's movement...
Continue reading...Print is dead… if not now, then soon
20. August 2009
The idea of curling up in a warm, sunny corner on a cold winter’s day to bask in the screen glow of a Kindle instead of a good, paper book might sound, well... unorthodox...
Continue reading...How renters can reduce energy and water consumption…
14. August 2009
The Alternative Technology Association has produced a useful little book to help renters reduce their energy and water consumption. There's something missing, however...
Continue reading...Getting in early: the 2010 permaculture calendar and diary
27. July 2009
David Arnold and Michele Margolis have been busy preparing next year's Permaculture Calendar and Diary for you...
Continue reading...Rosemary’s retrofit a good home forever
24. July 2009
Always doing something interesting and useful, Rosemary Morrow's new booklet on retrofitting her house for energy and water efficiency, and food production, has already inspired others...
Continue reading...New manual for sustainable living in Sydney
24. July 2009
TerraCircle Inc's Australian project — a community sustainability action guide for local government...
Continue reading...Adrift in a strange land
20. July 2009
JAMES BOYCE’S BOOK, Van Diemens Land, is a tale of how geography and environment can influence culture. The culture in question is that developed by convicts who were landed at the time that the colony was founded in 1803. Until the 1820s, when things changed to become harsher for convicts, they formed the majority of the [...]
Continue reading...Gibson’s Spook Country a rapsody on our world
14. July 2009
I’ve just finished reading William Gibson’s Spook Country, his most recent novel. Having now put it aside, I guess I’m trying to gather some thoughts about it. That remains a largely incomplete project and scenes from the book buzz around my head in a largely disconnected and somewhat random way. Gibson is noted as a writer [...]
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21. July 2010
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