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...Friday, October 2, 2009
With Future Scenarios, David Holmgren refocuses the permaculture design system on the big global issues but suggests a community-based response to addressing them...
Continue reading...Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Mark Diesendorf's journey has led him from academia to social action. His new book is a manual for a citizen's movement...
Continue reading...Thursday, August 20, 2009
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...
Continue reading...Friday, August 14, 2009
The Alternative Technology Association has produced a useful little book to help renters reduce their energy and water consumption. There's something missing, however...
Continue reading...Monday, July 27, 2009
David Arnold and Michele Margolis have been busy preparing next year's Permaculture Calendar and Diary for you...
Continue reading...Saturday, July 11, 2009
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 [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, July 11, 2009
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 [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, December 27, 2007
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...
Continue reading...Monday, July 24, 2006
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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Wednesday, July 21, 2010
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