Resources for a better future: Permaculture

By Rebecca Ellis, Uneven Earth

Permaculture has transformative potential when practitioners move away from promoting it as a depoliticized set of ecological design practices and principles.

What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 30 Starhawk

By Vicki Robin, Starhawk, Resilience.org

Starhawk is an author, activist, permaculture designer and teacher, founder of Earth Activist Training, and a prominent voice in modern earth-based spirituality and ecofeminism. She answers the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?

Whitewashed Hope

By 10+ indigenous authors, Indigenous World Views

While the practices 'sustainable farming' promote are important, they do not encompass the deep cultural and relational changes needed to realize our collective healing.

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.

How Permaculture can Build Resilience and Meet Basic Needs During a Pandemic

By Marina Martinez, Waging Nonviolence

Permaculture — a fusion of indigenous knowledge with modern science and technology — offers ways for people to meet their essential needs for food, water, sanitation and other non-material needs, with autonomy and harmony with nature.

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.

Q&A with Regi Haslett-Marroquin on The True Cost of Food: The Bill Is Already in the Mail

By Christine Grillo, John Hopkins Center for a Livable Future

Working with the Regenerative Agriculture Alliance in Minnesota, Reginaldo Haslett-Marroquin is the architect and engineer behind the regenerative poultry system, one of many farm operations at the 100-acre farm in Northfield, through the Main Street Project. His approach to regenerative agriculture involves a biodiverse system of symbiotically connected livestock and perennials, with no chemical inputs, building soil, cleaning water and delivering economic benefits to the community.

A Climate of Emergence

By Jasmine Dale, Permaculture Association

Hear the language of the emergency? Is it to galvanise progressive change or engender fear? I’ve been in a few emergencies. I’ve even been in a house on fire. Clear thinking and quick strategic action were required. Fear and panic are highly contagious and are not helpful in an emergency. I’m noticing even committed permies around me are doubting whether our methods and principles are enough to avert catastrophe.

Applying Food Forest Growing to Farms: Beyond Garden Scale

By Jonathan Bates, The Permaculture Research Institute

As these “Farm Gardens” expand and become nodes that merge, I envision entire fields fully planted, feeding the soil, wildlife, farm animals, and us. I look forward to continuing to share this experience with you as the process unfolds.

With New Perennial Grain, a Step Forward for Eco-Friendly Agriculture

By Jim Robbins, Yale Environment 360

A cereal and beers are now being made with a new variety of perennial grain known as Kernza. Proponents say this marks a significant advance for a new agriculture that borrows from the wild prairie and could help ensure sustainable food production in a warming world.

Earth Care, People Care and Fair Share in Education: The Children in Permaculture Manual: Review

By Matt Willer, Permaculture Association

The Children in Permaculture Manual has been written by people who not only see the world through the permaculture lens, but also know exactly how, through thoughtful pedagogy, children can be engaged to see through this lens too.

Permaculture in Taiwan – Permaculture Day Spotlight

By Celia Ashman, Permaculture Association

In September last year, I was very lucky and surprised to find myself in Taiwan for three weeks. I had two weeks free to travel wherever I wanted – so I put the word out for recommendations of permaculture projects, perhaps where I could volunteer and learn about the permaculture movement on another island (Taiwan is a bit bigger than Wales).