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Social permaculture for a troubled land

Wednesday, July 21, 2010

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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...

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Future scenarios — both scary and hopeful

Friday, October 2, 2009

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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...

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Mark Diesendorf — from academia to climate action campaigner

Tuesday, September 1, 2009

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Mark Diesendorf — from academia to climate action campaigner

Mark Diesendorf's journey has led him from academia to social action. His new book is a manual for a citizen's movement...

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Print is dead… if not now, then soon

Thursday, August 20, 2009

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Print is dead… if not now, then soon

The idea of curling up in a warm, sunny corner on a cold winter’s day to bask in the screen glow of a Kindle instead of a good, paper book might sound, well... unorthodox...

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How renters can reduce energy and water consumption…

Friday, August 14, 2009

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How renters can reduce energy and water consumption…

The Alternative Technology Association has produced a useful little book to help renters reduce their energy and water consumption. There's something missing, however...

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Getting in early: the 2010 permaculture calendar and diary

Monday, July 27, 2009

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Getting in early: the 2010 permaculture calendar and diary

David Arnold and Michele Margolis have been busy preparing next year's Permaculture Calendar and Diary for you...

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Resilient Cities – planners post their visions

Saturday, July 11, 2009

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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 [...]

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Old wisdom for modern times

Saturday, July 11, 2009

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Old wisdom for modern times

I remember it as one of those hazy memories from a distant childhood… it was at a football game in Maryborough (I later learned that there was another town by that name somewhere down south, but we Queenslanders knew those southerners like to copy the Sunshine State) and I was collecting discarded soft drink bottles [...]

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Permaculture – a movement in need of a history

Thursday, December 27, 2007

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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...

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Guidance from a real earth keeper

Monday, July 24, 2006

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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 and acts [...]

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