Stephen emails David: a collaboration
By David Holmgren, Holmgren Design
Hopefully these thoughts and linked writings will help with your own plans to grasp the opportunities of rapid changing context, contribute to minimising the damage in the local and wider world, and find the wisdom to recognise what we cannot change and deal with the resulting grief.
Can changing habits for self-reliance and resilience help society avoid the worst of unfortunate futures?
By David Holmgren, Holmgren Design
Retrosuburbia provides the patterns and models that need to be replicated across our residential heartlands to achieve a scale of impact.
The Class Divide in a Time of Pandemic: a Permaculture Perspective
By David Holmgren, Holmgren Design
So can a permaculture perspective add insight and a model of adaptive change in the context of the current crisis? I believe applying permaculture ethics and design principles to how we live can reduce our vulnerabilities to shocks from whatever quarter...
The Problem is the Solution: how Permaculture-Designed Household Isolation can Lead to RetroSuburbia
By David Holmgren
A home-based lifestyle of self-reliance, minimal and slow travel does not provide protection against getting a virus as infectious as COVID-19, but it provides a base for social distancing and isolation that is stimulating and healthy rather than a place of detention.
Bushfire Resilient Land and Climate Care
By David Holmgren, Holmgren Design
Fire is an intrinsic part of the Australian landscape. It has become more destructive since European colonisation, and over recent decades, we have experienced even greater destruction due to accelerating climate change and changes in land use. Australia could, and should, be leading the world in transitioning to a renewable energy base to reduce the root cause of the crisis.
The Apology: from Baby Boomers to the Handicapped Generations
By David Holmgren, Holgrem Design blog
It is time for us baby boomers to honestly acknowledge what we did and didn’t do with the gifts given to us by our forebears and be clear about our legacy with which we have saddled the next and succeeding generations.
A History from the Future: A Prosperous Way Down
By David Holmgren, Holgrem Design blog
This is an excerpt from David Holmgren’s A History from the Future – a prelude to his upcoming book RetroSuburbia.
Samuel Alexander interviews David Holmgren
By Samuel Alexander, David Holmgren, The Simplicity Collective
Recently I interviewed David Holmgren, co-originator of the permaculture concept, at his property in Hepburn, Victoria.
