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…
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A community that never was
Questions remain unanswered. Experiments are left undone. So it was with Cooplacurripa…
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Permaculture course too expensive? Let’s add up the real costs
Do educators offering permaculture design courses overcharge or do those who say so miss the hidden costs?
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Liberation Permaculture: a response to Nicole Vosper and Graham Burnett
This is a response to an article about what Nicole Vosper and Graham Burnett call 'Liberation Permaculture' in their article on the UK Permaculture magazine website…
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Towards Permaculture 3.0
Is is time, then for a new version of the permaculture design system so that it can continue to offer the solutions we need?
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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 time, but what about other times? Small of slow solutions might work when we’re establishing an ordhard, but in these days of the Great Acceleration it might be too little too late. Let me explain. […]
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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 was working for at the time — that time being the latter half of the 1990s — when I discovered them, a couple journals published by what must have been one of the very first […]
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Booklets a waypoint in permaculture history
SOMETIMES, useful things come at small scale. So it was with the 'Useful' series of booklets produced for those establishing permaculture systems ...
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Ecological restoration: A familiar argument from across the Tasman
A chance find in New Zealand demonstrates that restoration ecology is almost as controversial there as it can be in Australia...
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Drawing lessons from National Tree Day
National Tree Day shows what is needed to attract continues public participation in events...
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