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… the forum area is where your group can discuss their ideas, experiments and permaculture issues in detail
… share your dreams and experiments with your permaculture mates
… exchange tips and tricks on cool tools to use in your permie project
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Permaculture Australia
Our enterprises:
- the creation and administration of the Accredited Permaculture Training system of nationally-recognised permaculture qualifications
- management of the PermaFund tax-deductable donation and granting initiative
- networking to enable collaboration, learning and to enact the permaculture design system’s ethic of sharing and mutual assistance through—
- establishing and managing the Permaculture-oceania email communications facility
- making available the forums and the online social networking initiative on our website.
- providing organisational memory for the permaculture design system so that we learn from past experience as we move into new times and new challenge.
Permaculture International Ltd is now trading as Permaculture Australia (NSW).
Bill Mollison
Permaculture… the beginning
Bill Mollison and David Holmgren created the Permaculture design system in the late 1970s while living in Hobart, Tasmania. Bill was instrumental in setting up Tagari Publications, which produced books on Permaculture, and established the Permaculture Institute, originally in Tasmania, then at Tyalgum in northern NSW. The Institute returned to Tasmania in the 1990s.
David left Tasmania after completing his studies at the Tasmanian College of Advanced Education, eventually settling at Hepburn, Victoria, where he established a rural smallholding and permaculture education centre, Melliodora. David continues to live at Melliodora and teaches Permaculture design and Permaculture solutions.
David Holmgren
A do-it-yourself approach
Permaculture developed as a do-it-yourself approach to making households into energy efficient, food producing and resource conserving places.
At the same time Permaculture proposes that we move beyond the household… that community involvement is a means to self-help, improved quality of life and sustainability.
If we are to meet our sustainability challenges, then working within the community is mandatory… even households making the most thorough changes cannot achieve the scale of change that contemporary challenges demand.
As a design system and approach to living, Permaculture has inspired people to take action wherever they live. Its creators, Bill Mollison and David Holmgren, say that this is exactly where we need to make a start.
