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A food policy, an election & the efficacy of networks

NORBERT WIENER would have approved. So would have Marshall McLuhan. It was an example of how digital communications has amplified

Design salon 2: skilling up the local group

IT'S A REAL-WORLD INTRODUCTION to permaculture for those participating in the design of the small garden and the tour trails

Troubled paradise: Byron Bay faces change

This is an article I wrote around 2005 and which was republished in Brisbane's Courier Mail newspaper. It was stimulated

Ideas diffusion – from innovation to adoption

Never doubt that a small group of committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that

Two families, two lives… so similar but so different

HOW DO YOU ACCOUNT for the different way that life turns out for people, even when they share much in

A local currency that was

Local currencies are coming back into popularity to judge by a couple issued by Transition initiatives in the UK. Australian

Great conference, good people… but this is Tasmania after all

A speaking engagement at a conference leads to an edible tour of the island state, the gem of the Southern

Interregnum a chance to review and modernise permaculture education

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

Declaration on food: Sydney Food Fairness Alliance

Two declarations on the future of our food systems have been released in the past six months. This is the

Declaration on Food: Plains To Plate

Two declarations on the future of our food systems have been released in the past six months. This is the Declaration

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