Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Carrying on from the previous post, here we share an experimental example of permaculture design when conducted explicitly as a process of differentiating a pre-existing whole into parts.
Bill Mollison has left a worldwide movement of remarkable resilience. He has left much useful information and not a few words of guidance and encouragement for those who will miss him most.
Rob Hopkins recently appeared as a guest on the the Permaculture Podcast with Scott Mann. Their conversation spans permaculture, Transition, BREXIT, and what it takes build real community resilience.
It’s time to come back to earth, and to reverse scales from the mind-bogglingly large to the infinitesimally small.
Where does soil come from? In keeping with the big-picture perspective of this series, let’s tackle that question from the god’s-eye perspective. We can zero in on the finer points later.
Resilience is preparedness, and before disaster strikes, we would do well to invest more in the organic movement to build local resilience…
This two-part series is part of a larger inquiry that started when we accepted Alexander’s challenge. Accepting this challenge means giving Alexander’s living process perspective2 serious attention towards any value it might offer permaculture.
Holistic management (HM) is a framework for making deeply sound decisions.
Looming over this book…is the overwhelming fact that we have indeed entered the Anthropocene.
In which I suggest why permaculture designers might be their own worst enemy.
When we deeply understand the system we’re working with—be it a garden, a business, a community, or even a personal relationship—we can spot the places where a small, perfectly located nudge will beget a large response.
This second video in the urban swales series looks at permaculture design with water as the primary consideration.
