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HERE IT COMES! Another Australasian Permaculture Convergence!
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...Social permaculture for a troubled land
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...A local currency that was
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...Why so little influence in social decision making?
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...Interregnum a chance to review and modernise permaculture education
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...Food for thought in Sydney — two days with David Holmgren
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...City farm, training focus of Cafe Conversation
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...Ethical Investment Comes of Age ….finally
4. September 2009
This article by Robert Rosen, written about 20 years ago, describes early initiatives in the ethical investment industry...
Continue reading...Earthbank and permaculture – a productive nexus
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...Planning and good design feed an urban family
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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- The Trainer papers... 4
- The Trainer papers... 1
- Why is Food Connect taking off?
- Food Summit hands declaration on food futures to NSW Parliament
- An edible garden for Eastern Suburbs apartment dwellers
- Policy related documents
- Mark Diesendorf — from academia to climate action campaigner
- Something new, something edible this way comes
- Rosemary's retrofit a good home forever
- Lawson residents ready to garden as community
- Yvonne Gluyas: Yes, it WAS 'Barricades"!!! Now I remember that so...
- alfredo zotti: Dr Bob Rich has given some valuable feedback on my...
- alfredo zotti: I would like to add a correction here. My wife mis...
- Merilyn Thomas: Today I was waiting for my son to have an MRI in T...
- Jane Logan: Hi Russ I am doing an assignment for uni (I am st...
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From Plains to Plate…
You can participate in the Future of Food website
The Plains To Plate website was set up as the communications hub for the Plains To Plate Future of Food conference in Adelaide earlier this year and continues as a service linking food system aficionados around Australia.
Why not visit your food friends and join the conversation…
21. July 2010
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