Why Permaculture Puts Food First
By Albert Bates, The Great Change
Permaculture is much more. It is a regenerative design science. It teaches you to think ecosystemically: no waste; cyclical; nourishing body and soul; steady state.
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Bringing it All Together in Just. One. Diagram. (Part 2)
By Dan Palmer, Making Permaculture Stronger
Generative transformation is really good stuff. I believe permaculture and generative transformation are meant to be together, just like orchid and wasp, legume and rhizobia, or carbon and nitrogen in the perfect compost. Indeed, I’d argue that generative transformation is in play when any permaculture project really shines.
Bringing it All Together in Just. One. Diagram.
By Dan Palmer, Making Permaculture Stronger
The following diagram is a hyper-condensed summary of over two years, 80 posts and 70,000 words worth of this blog’s assorted ramblings about permaculture design.
RetroSuburbia: the Downshifter’s Guide to a Resilient Future
By Jo Barker, Permaculture Association
RetroSuburbia is an extraordinary and magnificently crafted guide on living abundantly in uncertain times. Part manifesto, part manual, this is the book you and I did not realise we were waiting for!
Harvesting Hope: the Permaculture Movement in India
By Simin Fadaee, Open Democracy
Among a number of movements, civil society organisations and campaigns addressing the agrarian crisis and the effects of industrial agriculture in India, the permaculture movement is fast gaining ground among subsistence farmers and proponents of alternative agriculture.
Grow Your Own Curry at Horton Community Farm
By Liberty Anstead, Permaculture Association
Horton Community Farm is an oasis of green tucked within a side-road off one of bustling Bradford’s busy roads. After a breathless, up-hill walk, entering the green land calms the heart and opens the senses.
Positive, Negative and Neutral Design
By Shane Simonsen, Making Permaculture Stronger
To me the most successful approach lies in using the most weakly positive approaches to enhancing plant growth to maximise the effectiveness of limited resources, then applying negative design to shape the vegetation across the landscape.
At the Intersection of Permaculture and Degrowth
By Lucie Bardos, Degrowth.de
In this article, I would like to propose some ways that an exchange of knowledge and knowledge-sharing strategies between permaculture and degrowth would be beneficial for both movements. This argument is based on the idea that the most interesting and diverse areas of any system are located at the edge, where one system, community, or way of thinking intersects with another.
My Review of David Holmgren’s ‘RetroSuburbia’
By Rob Hopkins, Rob Hopkins blog
David Holmgren’s new book is a fascinating, and intoxicating blast of ‘what if?’ which ought to be put through every suburban letterbox in the world, although given its size I have doubts that it would fit. I am a huge Holmgren fan.
How Could Permaculture Assist International Development Workers? A New Opportunity
By Georgina-Kate Adams, Permaculture Association
Permaculture for Development Workers invites practitioners working at all levels in development to consider incorporating permaculture into their approach and demonstrates how doing so could increase the suitability and sustainability of their programmes – as well as supporting development workers’ personal resilience.