Permaculture design: Asking the right questions
When it comes to permaculture design it is important to ask the right questions. Here we look at a couple situations where that could have been one better…
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APC13: Convergence revisits permaculture courses
APC13 revisits the vexed question of permaculture course structure and content…
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The new economy reborn in Sydney
August 2016 saw the rebirth of an alternative economics in Sydney with the Building the New Economy conference…
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A community that never was
Questions remain unanswered. Experiments are left undone. So it was with Cooplacurripa…
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Workshop introduces renovating the permaculture way
Using permaculture principles as a guide to home renovation was the theme of a community workshop at Randwick Sustainability Hub…
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Permaculture course too expensive? Let’s add up the real costs
Do educators offering permaculture design courses overcharge or do those who say so miss the hidden costs?
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Liberation Permaculture: a response to Nicole Vosper and Graham Burnett
This is a response to an article about what Nicole Vosper and Graham Burnett call 'Liberation Permaculture' in their article on the UK Permaculture magazine website…
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Learning to create our new nature in the city…
AS THE COURSE PARTICIPANTS ARRIVE for the class they open jars containing soil samples from their gardens. These they tip onto small, white plastic panels. Opening a bottle of dark purple reagent, they squeeze a little onto their samples and, using a plastic stick (wood contains acids that would bias the results), they mix it in. […]
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Towards Permaculture 3.0
Is is time, then for a new version of the permaculture design system so that it can continue to offer the solutions we need?
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In the Anthropocene… What role for permaculture?
I STARTED WRITING this paper as a background handout for a group direction-finding session planned for APC12 (the twelfth Australasian Permaculture Convergence)...
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