Ted Trainer’s new book – a rough road map
I 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…
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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…
Future scenarios — both scary and hopeful
With Future Scenarios, David Holmgren refocuses the permaculture design system on the big global issues but suggests a community-based response to addressing them…
Resilient Cities – planners post their visions
A couple weeks ago, I received a phone call from a woman in the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet. She wanted to know if the Department could use a short piece from something I had written in a set of guidelines they were producing. The guidelines, she explained, were for other levels of government Read more »
Permaculture – a movement in need of a history
Permaculture’s early books emerged from a publishing context of magazines and books on alternative living and a social context of footloose youth seeking better ways of living. Despite this, the movement has as yet produced no cogent history of itself…
Guidance from a real earth keeper
First published ABC Organic Gardener 2006. WHAT CAN YOU SAY about a book by someone who wears pearls while gardening and who talks about being a ‘WWEW’ – a Wild Wise Elderly Woman? Nothing that would surprise her, that’s for sure… just good things. Rosemary Morrow is a Blue Mountains, NSW, woman who thinks globally Read more »
Words of advice to environmentalists
Do environmentalists really have to wear a hangdog expression, avoid having a good time and never appear optimistic? Not according to veteran environmental commentator, Jonathan Porritt, when he launched his new book in Sydney…
