Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
How many humans does it take to re-invent agriculture? Just one…you! Or me! So that’s what I’m trying to do. Here are some of the things I’ve learned over the past 12 years.
I think the idea and popularity of permaculture has grown by leaps and bounds over the last couple of years.
Smothered beneath the dunes that blanket 150 miles of the Oregon coast are ancient, dead forests. Yet on these same dunes, the crumbling of delicate mosses and lichens on naked sand builds new soil, launching new forests.
It is now more than ever apparent that the permaculture/ regenerative agriculture/ carbon farming community has the more efficient solutions to sequestering carbon and reversing the negative effects of sea level rise, rising temperatures, and ecosystem exploitation.
This is the second program from International Permaculture Convergence, in London.
Is topsoil a renewable resource or a nonrenewable resource, especially in dry or degraded landscapes?
The link between the global oil supply and biodiversity is not directly causal; rather, the two are elements of a broader and more integrated picture.
All sustainable solutions are unsustainable over the longer term, if they are not also intrinsically regenerative.
How can permaculture help underpin a pattern language for women?
From 15th Annual International Permaculture Convergence in London, September 9th, 2015: "Cool Talk" by Albert Bates from The Farm in Tennessee.
It’s flow, dynamic and well-channeled, that keeps any system running.
It is no secret we live in a house on fire.
