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Your oil wake-up call

If the economic return on oil production is declining, what does it mean for our economies? Guest writer, Dr Ted Trainer, issues a warning…

Building the alt.food food system

Here is the handout that accompanied our Australasian Permaculture Convergence 13 session in building the alternative food system…

Internships in permaculture: federal report raises questions

A recent federal government report on internship arrangements raises the issue on internship arrangements in permaculture. Could possible future legislation affect permaculture establishments offering internships?

Permaculture design: Asking the right questions

When it comes to permaculture design it is important to ask the right questions. Here we look at a couple situations where that could have been one better…

APC13: Convergence revisits permaculture courses

APC13 revisits the vexed question of permaculture course structure and content…

The new economy reborn in Sydney

August 2016 saw the rebirth of an alternative economics in Sydney with the Building the New Economy conference…

On the food frontline: seminar highlights growing challenge of food insecurity

Not knowing where next week's meals are coming from is something fortunately unknown to most if us. But, for a growing number of people its is a real question…

The fair food movement: morally superior and elitist?

Is the fair food movement being inadvertently elitist and morally superior? Does it position its participants above people who do not share its food values? Yes, says Rachel Ankeny, a history professor at the University of Adelaide…

Lloyd Kahn — pioneer, builder, author, inspiration

Something of a latecomer to skateboarding, Lloyd Khan came early to owner-building, resilient living, writing and publishing…

Farewell and thanks Michael Herr: Despatches — an appreciation

He wrote several books and consulted on films, but Michael Herr's best known book is Despatches, a book of his time reporting the war in Vietnam as the seventies drew to an end. His contribution to the New Journalism will be long remmebered…

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