For those that don’t know, the Transition Towns (or Transition Initiatives) movement is a grass roots regional planning framework for finding positive solutions to peak oil and climate change.  In the last six months it is finally really gaining some attention here in and around Melbourne at the grass roots and local council levels, with [...]

I’m launching a book by the highly respected co-founder of permaculture, David Holmgren, which delves into various possible futures, and ways to prepare for them: Future Scenarios: How Communities Can Adapt to Peak Oil and Climate Change. Saturday 1st August 2009, 11:30am CERES Environmental Park, Lee St, Brunswick

So I’ve been busy launching and working with my friends Dan, Paul and Nathe on our new business: Very Edible Gardens (VEG).  Dan is the founder of permablitz and Paul has designed more properties for blitzes than anyone else, and Nath has been into permaculture since the early 90s.  We’re running courses, doing consultancies and [...]

Eat the Suburbs: Gardening for the End of the Oil Age A film by Tanya Curnow, 2006. EAT THE SUBURBS takes the oil debate from the bowser to the backyard and follows Melbourne’s “permablitzers” as they prepare for the end of the oil age… one garden at a time. Made 2006 but online for the [...]

The more I do face to face work, facilitating courses and permablitzes and working outside, the less time I find to update this blog, and while I regret that, damn do I feel lucky to be surrounded by so much generosity and eagerness to learn and share out there in the unpixelated world.  We recently [...]

I was a guest this week on Channel 31′s Conflict of Interest, hosted by Peter Farris QC and Greg Barns. The topic was “petrol prices and where they are heading”.

Crikey, the popular online politics magazine is running a series on oil futures, and I was the first interviewee.

Co-Founder of Sustainable Design Movement Illuminates our Uncertain Futures FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Date: 26 May 2008 The Australian co-founder of the permaculture concept David Holmgren has today launched a new global scenario planning website, Future Scenarios: www.FutureScenarios.org. Holmgren says his future scenarios will help both policy makers and activists come to terms with the end [...]

The Transition Towns project (now Transition Initiatives) is the embodiment of community driven holistic regional planning.  A new book The Transition Handbook: From oil dependency to local resilience helps community activists make it happen.

My wonderful housemate Kat moved to our new place by bicycle. Here’s a video we put together from the footage.