Eco-Villages
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My First Week at Thailand’s Newest Permaculture Farm
by Theron Beaudreau In a rural village at the Southwest corner of the Isaan Plateau, just over an hour drive…
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Permaculture in Damaged Lands: Degradation and Restoration in New Mexico
A certain coal-strewn road in Madrid, New Mexico — the remnants of a now defunct railway. Alternately barren and spectacular,…
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John Hardy: My Green School Dream
Join John Hardy on a tour of the Green School, his off-the-grid school in Bali that teaches kids how to…
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Permaculture at The Farm
Former stockbroker Brian Bankston now calls himself the “Keyline Cowboy” after a carbon farming course at The Farm’s Ecovillage Training…
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Kotare Village and Community Development – Your New Zealand Opportunity
To confidently face the many challenges that the future holds for us, we need new models for living lightly on…
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Permaculture Successes in a Zimbabwean Community
by Monika Goforth and Terry Leahy, University of Newcastle, Australia To use permaculture lingo, Chikukwa can be described as a…
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Rob Hopkins: Transition to a World Without Oil
Rob Hopkins, founder of the Transition movement, gives a great TED Talk.
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Sustainable Agriculture and Off-Grid Renewable Energy
Small integrated farms with off-grid renewable energy may be the perfect solution to the food and financial crisis while mitigating…
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Edgevertizing – the Story of the Itinerant Japanese Knife-Sharpener
by Cecilia Macaulay Knife shaperner photo by Cecilia Marginal overheads This itinerant knife sharpener does the rounds every few months…
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A New Permatecture Toolbox! (From Nikos A. Salingaros)
by Øyvind Holmstad The goal of permaculture is to reunite man with nature and man with man through design systems,…
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The Timeless Way of Building
by Øyvind Holmstad This timeless book from Christopher Alexander was released back in the seventies, and it’s just as much…
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Modernism & Disconnection from Life
by Øyvind Holmstad Norway is said to be a social democratic country, which means a 50 – 50 percent mixture…
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