Among the fruit trees, the conviviality of Permaculture Festival 2018

Dark, clouds, a strong, biting wind and Canberra cold couldn’t keep people away from the Permaculture Festival at Canberra City Farm.Read More

The legals: Our duty of care to visitors to permaculture sites

With visits to community gardens, farms and permaculture sites now popular events. perhaps it is time to think about our legal obligations in showing people our permacultures…Read More

ALERT: Time to make sure your organisation complies with the new EU data laws

The EU General Data Protection Regulation comes into effect on 25 May this year. It affects organisations outside the EU that hold personal information about EU citizens. How will the Regulation affect your organisation?Read More

CoLab survey holds a mirror to permaculture practice

What is permaculture worldwide? Who practices it? Where are they? That’s what The Next Big Step: Permaculture, practices, passions and priorities for collaborative working set out to find out…Read More

Participatory event maps Sydney’s sharing economy

Mapping is how we make sense of landscapes. It is also how we make sense of those networks we cannot sea, such as Sydney’s sharing economy.

That is what March’s Map Jam did in creating The Sharing May…Read More

The Catalan Integral Cooperative

IN THIS EBOOK by Sydney limits-to-growth thinker, Dr Ted Trainer, he reports on the Catalan Integral Co-operative in Spain.

” …the Catalan Integral Cooperative provides us with an inspiring demonstration of what can be done and what we need”, he … Read More

Retroburbia: some thoughts

With the release of david Holmgren’s book, Retroburbia, imminent, I sat down and thought about what we might need to recreate australia’s suburbs…Read More

Award recognises permaculture design of council community facility

A Highly Commended in the 2017 Sustainability Awards of the construction and architectural design industry was the latest in a number of awards made to the permaculture Interpretive Garden and Randwick Community Centre and regional park development in Sydney’s Eastern Suburbs…Read More