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 first time now. [...]

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.  [...]

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 of the era of [...]

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.

Last month I posted a house-wanted notice, in which the deal would be that I would help develop a permaculture oasis as my rent. I was overwhelmed with responses, over 15, most of them very tempting.

I’m putting it out there that I want to live in someone’s house for the next year and develop a demonstration permaculture garden so as to live rent free and have something to show for it. Below’s my ad as posted on permablitz.net: