Village Development
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A Permaculture Consultancy in Ethiopia
Two hundred kilometers south of Addis we turn left at a little town called Achamo, and dive off the tarmac…
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Letters from New Zealand – Koanga Sows Seeds of Change
Current evidence indicates that New Zealand may well be "the youngest country on earth". Possible fellow competitors for this claim…
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Resilience Through Simplification: Revisiting Tainter’s Theory of Collapse
Below, Samuel Alexander summarises his new Simplicity Institute Report, which discusses ‘voluntary simplification’ in the context of Joseph Tainter’s theory…
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Village Repair: Permaculture Design Maquettes for Small Towns and Villages
by Delvin Solkinson Download the free, open source printable files for 3 placemaking worksheets here : Placemaking Worksheets (PDF) The…
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Permaculture: A Call for Diversity
Sri Lankan tea plantation worker Photograph © copyright Craig Mackintosh For the past year, I have been circumnavigating the world…
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What Will Rio+20 Bring?
In a few days the international community will be meeting in Rio de Janeiro, to hold the most significant environmental…
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Rio+20: What Ecovillages Offer
It is the start of Rio+20, the UN Conference on Sustainable Development, and the Global Ecovillage Network has a strong…
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PRI Networking, the Value of Collaboration, and the Development of More PRI Education/Demonstration Projects
Do we segregate…? Photos © PRI Most of us are by now wholly cognizant of the fact that the global…
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Geoff Lawton’s Zaytuna Farm Video Tour (Apr/May 2012) – Ten Years of (R)Evolutionary Design
Paradise Dam, April 2012, from the now-climaxing food forest Zaytuna Farm Video Tour, duration 41 minutes Having spent the last…
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John D. Liu’s Green Gold Documentary – How the West (and East, North and South!) Could Be Won
As most of our readers will know, John D. Liu caught a vision years ago, and, thankfully, he ran with…
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Living Freely – Valuing the Marginal and Recycling Energy
Plukrijp Community, Belgium Photos and article by Richard Perkins Wheat We are now a month into our epic global family…
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Letters from New Zealand: Villages for the Future — a Look at Bob Corker and the Kotare Ecovillage
Kotare Village surrounds, west of Wairoa, in the Hawkes Bay region of New Zealand’s North Island All photographs © PRI…
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