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 [...]

Lou Smith of Breakdown Press recently email-interviewed Asha Bee about permablitzes & backyard food production for a zine she's helping put together in response to the coming G20 conference in Melbourne…. What are permablitzes all about? How did they begin? A permablitz is basically a permaculture-inspired backyard makeover where people come together to share knowledge [...]

This was a post about upcoming screenings, but I've edited it into a short report back.   The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil is absolutely must-see doco on Cuba's transition into a lower energy society. Richard Heinberg, peak oil guru and recent visitor to these shores, said: "Everyone who is concerned about [...]

Some thoughts on schooling, the PR industry and trying to grow up rapidly for an era of energy descent.  I just watched A Century of the Self – Happiness Machines. It's really one of the best doco's I've seen and that's just the first part of 4.  (You can download the whole series at archive.org) [...]

Megan Quinn sent through an article containing this quote from Karen Berney, a US-based community health consultant: “The goal of Peak Oil education is to bring about change in people’s knowledge, attitudes, and practices,” Berney said. “To do so they must take ownership of the problem, and develop their own solutions.” She added that adults [...]