Permaculture is a design system based on ethics and principles which can be used to establish, design, manage and improve all efforts made by individuals, households and communities towards a sustainable future.
This site explores the 'essence of permaculture' in a simple and clear way, expanding on the work of co-originator of the permaculture concept, David Holmgren.
English town's climate lessons
Totnes is a small English town in Devon, already putting it's own measures in place to protect its environmental future.
Residents use bio-fuel from recylced fish and chip oil, growing sustainable food, and even finding their own form of currency.
Emma Hayward from Aljazeera reports.
How to repair the world
Are you worried about climate change? What if we could actually do something really effective right now to halt it? Try planting some trees...
DIRT! the movie
DIRT takes you inside the wonders of the soil. It tells the story of Earth's most valuable and underappreciated source of fertility--from its miraculous beginning to its crippling degradation. www.dirtthemovie.org
The Holistic Life: Sustainability through Permaculture
A fantastic introduction to permaculture by author / activist Ian Lillington, explaining the concept in a clear and concise way. Ian has applied the permaculture priciples in all aspects of his life to help find 'sustainability through permaculture' with plenty of concrete examples of how it's done.
A great gift idea that will inspire your friends and family into action.
Planting trees as living firebreaks
Andrew Thamo of the Small Tree Farm in Western Australia has made available two articles on his website about using fire retardant trees to defend property from fire attack.
The short case study looks a real life situations where retardants have been used to prevent the progress of fire, while there is another article that explores how fire retardant trees work, and some tips on how to manage and use them.
Permaculture.TV is an initiative of permaculture activist Nicholas Roberts of permaculture co-op. It's a media cooperative project that uses web video technology with accompanying information to educate the community about grass-roots solutions to sustainability such as gardens in schools, community gardens, home gardens, healthy eating and lifestyles.
There are all sorts of interesting permaculture related posts and videos like this short clip entitled 'Business and Usual'.
Hunters Point in San Francisco is a inner city area with high crime, poverty and high pollution. Starhawk tells the story of a how Hunters Point Family, a grass-roots, community-based, youth development agency, embraced permaculture to tranform both the environment and attitudes of local people.
Little pumpkin feeds the world
Join little pumpkin in his forest theatre, presenting his very own show "Feed The World". This is an animation video about food .... vegetables and fruit wanting a better "green" environmental life ... the supermarket or the garden ?... or is it a halloween pumpkin with a difference !!! It is a great permaculture animation ... one that makes you feel like digging!!
The PcP site has been a great success, with some very positive feedback. There has also been a lot of interest from non-english speaking people who would like to have access to the site in their local languages.
So, we are looking at a major upgrade of the website to accommodate this interest and offer more permaculture resources in a range of languages.
While some money has been raised from the sale of products from the website, this has not been enough to cover the costs involved in running the operation. It’s a labour of love, and yet it needs $ to continue and to be able to upgrade it’s service.
Help the world become more principled by donating today.
An integrated permaculture icon
While the first permaculture icon design was based on Bill Mollison's 'Designers Manual' cover, and the second design was based on David Holmgren's 'permaculture flower', this lastest design combines them both together.
It is envisaged that the icon be made available to people who have completed the 'Permaculture Design Course' to help identify the skills and understanding that they now possess.
Please take a few seconds to give some feedback on the idea by voting on the questions below. If you would like to make a suggestion contact us.
Below are the original icon concepts that were put forward, inspired by the cover of Permaculture: A Designers' Manual by Bill Mollison
