“Seeing Prisons as One Massive Design Opportunity”
My perspective on the prison system is that it’s inherently violent.
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There’s No Single Right Path : Resilience Reflections with Chris Smaje
There’s no single right path and there’s a lot to be learned from people following different, even antithetical, paths to your own.
Resilience and Collapse: Notes from Cyprus
Whatever we do in Cyprus doesn’t really stay in Cyprus. It’s like the effect gets multiplied and spread, from here to the nearby regions, and from there on.
Finding the Land that’s Right for You
At some point almost every permaculturist thinks about getting onto a piece of land.
Scaling This Stuff Up: Resilience Reflections with Rob Hopkins
I see so much remarkable stuff happening in so many places, and meet so many focused, committed people, that I really believe that a new economy, a new culture, is possible, indeed it is already here.
Checking All the Boxes at Singing Frogs Farm
“Though the problems of the world are increasingly complex, the solutions remain embarrassingly simple.”
Food, Fairness, and Permaculture Design
Throughout our existence, the human race has been responsible for creating tremendously harmful imbalances impacting both the living and non-living systems of earth.
Transition in Australia: an open letter to Transitioners
The outcomes of our work are uncertain, but the way we approach Transition in each moment will contribute to the quality and nature of the outcomes.
The Permaculture City: Cities as Complex Systems
The general “messiness” of cities has been irritating urban theorists and planners for centuries, but it wasn’t until recently that urbanists truly understood that it is just that messiness that gives cities their life.
Resilience in the face of Climate Change
Resilience is a common principal of permaculture, says Dave Boehnlein, co-author of the book Practical Permaculture.
“You Fly to the Edge of the Tar Sands, and … No Life”
University of Montana professor George Price on permaculture, race, and how he’s standing up to tar sands extraction.
8 Reasons to turn your lawn into a farm and help change the world
Yardfarmers is a new reality TV/documentary series hybrid for release in Spring 2017 that has the potential to shift how many see their backyards and food.