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 […]

[I’m publishing this ‘as is’ for comments/corrections. It’s a reference document in progress for how much energy/water/greenhouse gas/landfill might be saved by home food gardening. I’ve been regularly updating the article, the last was to include more embodied water information on 6 December 2007, and new greenhouse emission information added 11 December. -Adam]
How […]

John Anderson is the former leader of the National Party, Deputy Prime Minister and Federal Minister for Primary Industries and Energy. He’s retiring at the coming election to go back to the farm. As Deputy Prime Minister in 2004 he was one of the first significant politicians globally to acknowledge peak oil. He’s […]

This article via The Age:
Slice food bill, avoid drought: grow vegiesLucinda Ormonde, John Elder in The AgeSeptember 23, 2007
RIP out your camellias and plant carrots instead.
That’s the advice of the Australian Vegetable and Potato Growers Association, which says growing your own vegetables could help combat rising food prices and a potential shortage of fresh […]

[ Australia is facing the worst drought in recorded history, and as part of the response the government is targeting home gardeners. Beth Spencer questions if this is really the best place to begin water restrictions. -Adam ]
Dealing with stage 3 water restrictions […]