Perma-Thinking
Guest post: Permaculture and Ethical Investment
Miles began his career in 1968 at Perth Kings Park and Botanical Gardens WA, before completing a PDC in 1983 with Bill Mollison. His roles have included Secretary, Earth Bank Society; Plant nursery manager, Zaytuna Farm; NASAA inspector, Co- housing and MO...
Why permaculture is so hot right now
The drought, catastrophic bushfires and now the global Covid-19 pandemic. It's been a bumpy start to 2020 and it's only July, yikes. Gaps in community and household resilience coincided with a huge spike in folks wanting to know about backyard food production,...
Permaculture Stories – Tonielle Christensen
Member update – Richard Telford
With national housing unaffordability making many young people feel home ownership is out of reach, it is high time for some out-of-the-box thinking. Permaculture Principles and PA Member Richard Telford certainly applied that kind of thinking more than a decade ago...
Blogger interprets permaculture's principles as rules for living
In shifting the principles of permaculture design into the personal psychology space, Land and Ladle blogger, Erin Meyer, offers a new application of the principles first articulated in David Holmgren’s book, ‘Permaculture — principles and pathways beyond sustainability’.
Participatory event maps Sydney’s sharing economy
Food, ideas and enthusiasm flowed as 80 people gathered at Camperdown Commons for a participatory mapping exercise to geolocate Sydney’s sharing economy. What a night.
Food security the real focus of urban farming
You cannot talk about urban farming without talking about food security. That was one of the messages coming from two recent events in Sydney that followed February’s urban agriculture conference in Melbourne.
Feedback on review of import conditions for brassicaceous crop seeds into Aus
A letter written by PA and sent to the Review: On behalf of the 500 members of Permaculture Australia, we would like you to consider offering more time and a wider distribution of this proposal. We are a member-based organisation of individuals and organisations who...
Thinking of leadership
When I sat down to write an article for Open Forum about leadership, all I could think of were permaculture people…