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THE PERMACULTURE PAPERS — 4: The nineties boomtime

A personal history of the permaculture design system...

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THE PERMACULTURE PAPERS — 5: prelude to a new century

A personal history of the permaculture design system...

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THE PERMACULTURE PAPERS — 6: Trouble and triumph in the new century

New century, decade one—it was a time of challenge for permaculture but it was also a time of continued growth...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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The Trainer papers… 1

SEGMENT 1: Ted Trainer's says that the Transition and permaculture movements do too little to change the economic structure of our society....

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The Trainer Papers… 2

SEGMENT 2... my first response to Ted Trainer following his criticism of the Transitions and permaculture movements...

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