Home retrofit production a educational resource
Always doing something interesting and useful, Rosemary Morrow's new booklet on retrofitting her house for energy and water efficiency, and food production, has already inspired others...
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Resilient Cities – planners post their visions
A couple weeks ago, I received a phone call from a woman in the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet. She wanted to know if the Department could use a short piece from something I had written in a set of guidelines they were producing.
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Permaculture Strategy for South African villages
Bill Mollison’s Permaculture — A Designer’s Manual covers the broad sweep of the permaculture design system. So does his Introduction To Permaculture, though at a more basic level. The same goes for Rosemary Morrows books on permaculture, and Ross Marss’. Ian Lillington’s The Holistic Life takes a finer-grain view as he applies permaculture design to […]
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Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond
I HAD A DISTINGUISHED VISITOR staying at my little shack this week, and I’ve had the good fortune to watch the video CD she left me. It’s all about her Blue Mountains house, how she retrofitted it and how she developed her small garden and designed it and her home to make the most of […]
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Garden education in Sydney’s sandy east
The Eastern Suburbs sandy soils are starting to sprout lettuce and leeks, cabbage and capsicum thanks to a local government course in sustainable gardening...
Read MorePermaculture – a movement in need of a history
Permaculture's early books emerged from a publishing context of magazines and books on alternative living and a social context of footloose youth seeking better ways of living. Despite this, the movement has as yet produced no cogent history of itself...
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David Holmgren: design approach to food security
David Holmgren says cities can feed themselves...
Read MoreThe long road in the far north – on the local food speakers trail in northern NSW
MARCH DAYS ARE MILD DAYS in the sleepy northern NSW town of Lismore. And this year they were no different...
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Celebrating the conviviality of permaculture
Ian Lillington's approach to permaculture living is hands-on. His 2007 book explains how he went about it and what the permaculture design system means to him and his family...
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Guidance from a real earth keeper
First published ABC Organic Gardener 2006. WHAT CAN YOU SAY about a book by someone who wears pearls while gardening and who talks about being a ‘WWEW’ – a Wild Wise Elderly Woman? Nothing that would surprise her, that’s for sure… just good things.
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