Teaching the Anthropocene

The challenge: Take a Living Smart class through the story of the Anthropocene. A rough lesson plan…
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Gladwell’s three roles in spreading ideas

Malcolm Granwell, author of The Tipping Point, defines the three roles important to the spread of ideas… Read More

THE STRUCTURE OF PERMACULTURE — understanding the network

Networks are a pattern in nature and they are the pattern that permaculture has assumed in Australia and elsewhere. Networks are how permaculture grew into what it is today and what it will grow into in the future. Strengthening networks strengthens permaculture.Read More

APC14 — impressions of a permaculture convergence

What did participants think of Australasian Permaculture Convergence 14 in Canberra? What are their next steps in permaculture?
That’s what I asked them in this series of video clips made at APC14…Read More

APC14 — informative and convivial

Describing the 14th Australasian Permaculture Convergence as convivial and informative doesn’t do it justice. Neither do photographs, but they are all I can offer…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

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

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