It's a celebration, a learning opportunity, a party, a reflection and a reunion... the time that comes around every two years when Permaculture educators, advocates, practitioners and all of the others incloved in the Permaculture Design System come together... it's a time not to be missed...
Continue reading...21. July 2010
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...25. May 2010
Local currencies are coming back into popularity to judge by a couple issued by Transition initiatives in the UK. Australian social innovators, however, experimented with a local currency well before the British...
Continue reading...26. April 2010
A drive down a windy road in Hobart raises questions about the influence of the permaculture design system and why this is not something greater....
Continue reading...26. April 2010
The Permaculture Institute's abandonment of its permaculture teacher registration offers an interregnum in which to review and modernise the Permaculture Design Certificate...
Continue reading...2. October 2009
The winds of late October failed to blow away those attending a series of events with permaculture co-originator, David Holmgren. David left people with food for thought about our future and how we, as communities, might respond to challenging global trends...
Continue reading...4. September 2009
His history in setting up Northey Street City Farm with a group of enthusiasts, and the introduction of accredited permaculture training to Sydney were the focus of September 2009's TransitionSydney Cafe Conversation with Dick Copeman...
Continue reading...4. September 2009
This article by Robert Rosen, written about 20 years ago, describes early initiatives in the ethical investment industry...
Continue reading...4. September 2009
Written over 15 years ago, Robert Rosen's story demonstrates that it is easily forgotten that the permaculture design system, in its early years, was in part responsible for the establishment of the social or ethical investment industry in Australia...
Continue reading...26. August 2009
In this 1999 article, Fiona Campbell describes the process of designing, constructing and planting her home garden not far from the shores of Botany Bay...
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21. July 2010
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