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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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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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.
Read MorePermaculture'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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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.
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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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