Permaculture 3.0
Ideas and ramblings about the permaculture design system
Can permaculture learn from the Alliance?
April 8, 2013 | Russ Grayson
IS PERMACULTURE TOO DISPERSED a movement to be represented by a single umbrella body? Is there really any interest in setting up a national, representative body to advocate a permaculture perspective?
The idea of a national advocacy organisation for permaculture, … Read More
Clan that spans a nation
April 8, 2013 | Russ GraysonTHERE ARE YEARS OF TURMOIL in the world. Old ideologies vie with each other long after they should have been laid to rest. Left and Right still clash though in a way far subdued to their past, their differences now … Read More
Farewell SAVE… but what is permaculture’s future in sustainability education?
June 27, 2012 | Russ Grayson
YESTERDAY WAS THE FINALE event signifying the ending of the SAVE (Sustainable Action Values Everyone) program.
Ted Trainer’s new book – a rough road map
November 30, 2011 | Russ Grayson 7I haven’t seen a copy of Ted’s new book yet, so the comments that follow are made in ignorance of the context set by it. My comments refer only to the chapters that Ted has circulated to publicise the publication. You will find this at the end of this review.
Blue Mountains meeting brings together far-flung Transition Town teams
September 10, 2011 | Russ GraysonTHE DECIDUOUS TREES at the Mid-Mountains Community Centre were covered with showy white flowers as people gathered in Lawson for the quarterly Sydney region assembly of Transition Town groups. People had previously met at the Customs House at Circular Quay, but when the Blue Mountains team offered their territory people jumped at the chance to get out of the city for cooler surroundings and far horizons.
Sun shines on National permaculture Day 2011 at Hub
May 6, 2011 | Russ Grayson
THEY CAME FROM the local east, a few from the more distant north and a few from the City of Sydney local government area… and even a few from further west. In its first major public event, the Randwick Sustainability Education Hub attracted an estimated 200 people, over the two and a half hours it was open, to National Permaculture Day 2011.
Permaculture—time to scale up?
April 22, 2011 | Russ Grayson
THE INTERESTING and long-running conversation of what permaculture practitioners and educators should focus their efforts on has come up again, this time in a Facebook conversation.
Social permaculture for a troubled land
February 21, 2011 | Russ Grayson 4
I HAD JUST FINISHED watching Gary Caginoff’s video, A Garden at the End of the World, that follows Australian permaculture educator Rosemary Morrow on her assignment in Afghanistan for a Sydney-based NGO, when Fiona came home.
THE PERMACULTURE PAPERS — 1: Introductory notes
October 11, 2010 | Russ Grayson
THE PERMACULTURE PAPERS is a recollection of people, places and events encountered during my time as participant-observer in permaculture design, education and community work.
THE PERMACULTURE PAPERS — 2: The dawn
October 11, 2010 | Russ Grayson
GREY BEARD FRAMING A SUNTANNED FACE topped by a head of thinning, wispy hair, the man rises from his chair and stands at the podium.
