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:
Another bloody brilliant article in today’s edition of The Age newspaper by Katherine Kizilos summing up many of the arguments for urban food production, with an emphasis on water saving.
The following article appeared in today’s edition of The Age, (the day’s 5th most popular article!) outlining the argument for why there should be water restriction exemptions for home food growers in Victoria. It’s a good article, big kudos to Marika and the reporter Denise Gadd, for pointing out such absurdities as the fact […]