The Decline May Not be Permacultured, Part 1
In which I take a critical look at a permaculture designer’s plan for a tree lawn.
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“Seeing Prisons as One Massive Design Opportunity”
My perspective on the prison system is that it’s inherently violent.
Food, Fairness, and Permaculture Design
Throughout our existence, the human race has been responsible for creating tremendously harmful imbalances impacting both the living and non-living systems of earth.
Responding to the Prison Industrial Complex with Permaculture and Resilience
People are also the environment, we are our own ecological system integrated into the larger systems.
Building Community Through Permaculture
The idea that we can use design to strengthen relationships between parts of the city,,,is essential for the emergence of a sustainable society.
Creating Swales
Swales are simply ditches on contour (contour is a level line across the landscape), with the excavated soil from the ditch being placed downslope to form a berm.
Reconnecting Architects with the Community
The architect should come in a humble way and say: “How can I support the life that is happening here?” This is the only way to be sustainable.
Toward a Future: Permaculture
We use the magic of radio to fly around to garden roof tops in Brooklyn USA, a permaculture fruit farm in Quebec, and small acres restored in Nottingham UK. Buckle up.
Taking the Permaculture Path to Community Resilience
Planners need to know about permaculture and use it as a framework to guide our communities.
Food & agriculture – headlines
•Using Permaculture Design to Prepare for Floods
•Iowa Is Getting Sucked Into Scary Vanishing Gullies
•Africa’s farm revolution – who will benefit?
•Could This Baker Solve the Gluten Mystery?
•Elemental Business: Phosphorus
•Polish farmers ‘grassroots rebellion’
The Ancient Taberna in a Future World
No, the Trajan Market was not at all like today’s ’supermarkets’ — it was a superb market!
Going Deep
"Like our religious traditions, the agriculture we are accustomed to is a 5000-year-old relic that grew surpluses, but also bequeathed enormous and spreading deserts, centralized and hierarchical wealth systems, standing militaries, and a seemingly intractable global ecological crisis."