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HERE IT COMES! Another Australasian Permaculture Convergence!

Wednesday, July 21, 2010

It's a celebration, a learning opportunity, a party, a reflection and a reunion... the time that comes around every two years when Permaculture educators, advocates, practitioners and all of the others incloved in the Permaculture Design System come together... it's a time not to be missed...

Opening of Sustainability Hub: Costa to talk water

Wednesday, July 21, 2010

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You are invited to the official opening of the Randwick Community Centre Sustainability Hub… TELEVISION GARDENING PROGRAM HOST, Costa from SBS’s Costa’s Garden Odyssey, will join Randwick City Council’s Team Eco, the Mayor of Randwick and guests for the Official Opening of Randwick City Council’s Water Wise Trail and the Sustainability Makeover retrofit of energy/water systems [...]

Social permaculture for a troubled land

Wednesday, July 21, 2010

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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...

A local currency that was

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

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Local currencies are coming back into popularity to judge by a couple issued by Transition initiatives in the UK. Australian social innovators, however, experimented with a local currency well before the British...

Why so little influence in social decision making?

Monday, April 26, 2010

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A drive down a windy road in Hobart raises questions about the influence of the permaculture design system and why this is not something greater....

Interregnum a chance to review and modernise permaculture education

Monday, April 26, 2010

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The Permaculture Institute's abandonment of its permaculture teacher registration offers an interregnum in which to review and modernise the Permaculture Design Certificate...

Talkfest indicates disconnect between community and peak environment organisations

Saturday, March 6, 2010

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March 2010's Climate Action Conference was a worthwhile event that highlighted a bridgeable disconnect between the peak environment organisations, academics and grassroots movements towards sustainability...