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

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 »

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  Read more »

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…

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 »

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…

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…