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THE PERMACULTURE PAPERS — 7: Into the new century

Having survived the challenges of the first decade, it's a new permaculture that is starting to emerge in the second decade of the Twenty First Century...

A city farm, twenty years in the making

It's the fourth attempt to start a city farm in Sydney as the City of Sydney and its consultant holds a series of public consultations to harvest ideas for the proposed city farm...

Design salon 1: new uses for an old house

The first of the design salons with Randwick City Council's sustainability education team engaged with Permaculture Sydney East to redesign the small garden at the home of pioneering Australian silent filmmaker, cameraman and director, Walter Franklyn Barrett...

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 at Barrett House in Sydney's Eastern Suburbs...

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 ever has. ACCORDING TO Dr Robert Gillman – a one-time astrophysicist with NASA turned community worker and, later, publisher of In Context magazine – there is a process by which new ideas move from the […]

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 social innovators, however, experimented with a local currency well before the British...

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 Design Certificate...

In Sydney’s east, another group graduates from sustainable living courses

I led a session on the global challenges that we face at the Living Smart course in Randwick and found participants receptive and interested. The course is now in its pilot phase and provides, uniquely among local government in Sydney, a comprehensive and integrated approach to living sustainably...