In the Anthropocene… What role for permaculture?
I STARTED WRITING this paper as a background handout for a group direction-finding session planned for APC12 (the twelfth Australasian
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Submission: Victorian Greens Animal Policy Review 2015
Following is a submission to the Victorian Greens Animals policy review as invited by email circulated in February 2015.
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Small and slow solutions: a principle too little, too late?
SMALL AND SLOW SOLUTIONS… permaculture principle or shibboleth? A bit of both, I think. A good idea some of the
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The household economy: time for reimagining?
I KNEW WHAT WAS HAPPENING when she got the big drum out from the back of the cupboard. “I”m going
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The household solution — too small to push change?
I RECEIVED an email from Permaculture Australia recently promoting online videos of Nicole Foss and David Holmgren. So I took
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Time to ensure permaculture internships not exploitative
IF THERE IS A TIME for permaculture people who offer internships on their properties to ensure that their arrangements with
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Internships in permaculture — exploitation or opportunity?
A RECENT POSTING on the Permaculture Australia-New Zealand and Permaculture Victoria Facebooks by Melbourne-based permaculture practitioner, Miriam Bakst, raises an
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A literature of past possibilites
THE BOOKS YOU SEE in the composite illustration accompanying this story link past and present. They link what was a
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Council takes initiative in education for local growing
JENNIFER ALDEN, the Victorian food consultant, gave me the book just a few weeks ago — a little A5-size publication
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A distant voice calls from permaculture’s dawn time
SOMETIMES, the best discoveries are made by accident. I was rummaging through the library of an international development organisation I
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