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Monsanto is starting an advocacy campaign in Australia, calling for greater acceptance of their GMO wares. Aside from all the environmental and personal health issues involved with GMOs, Monsanto is also conveniently ignoring that mother of all wake up calls, peak oil. Without cheap energy, their large scale globalised monocrop systems will collapse. It seems we [...]

Permaculture design and planning has become extremely relevant for all land owners and managers. Correct planning and design can make the difference between a well managed productive property and one that has ongoing soil, water and other management issues to contend with. For those without acreage and only our own backyards, it enables us to [...]

With words taken from a Democracy Now Interview with John Perkins, a self-styled ‘Economic Hitman’, the studioJOHO crew have made a very cool animation to showcase the fantastic services we the wealthy offer two-thirds world countries. Watching this led me to check out other work from these video magicians – excellent stuff to [...]

This video is longish, at almost an hour, but it’s a great candid interview by Alex Bogusky with anti-GMO hero Jeffrey Smith, with lots of shocking information that you need to know about GMOs. If you can, take the time to listen and digest. From YouTube: International best-selling author Jeffrey M Smith (Seeds of Deception, GMO Trilogy, [...]

Photo © copyright Craig Mackintosh The January 2011 internship course is now fully booked with four people waitlisted in case of cancellations (for a course for which everyone has either paid in full or paid a deposit to hold their place). This course is proving to be the most popular of all courses held [...]

From a few days ago: HOLLYWOOD star Daryl Hannah flies into Cairns tomorrow while Virgin founder Sir Richard Branson’s eccentric nephew, Ned RocknRoll hits town today. The environmentally minded duo plan to spend a month in the Far North for a two week permaculture design course and the Australasian Permaculture Convergence. The events will be at Kuranda. Mr RocknRoll, [...]

I just want to congratulate the Lammas team, who after four years of battling local government have finally received approval to turn their ambitions of building a sustainable community in Wales into reality. Well done team. Do us proud! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPhvaBpJV2k Digg this! Share this on Reddit Stumble upon something good? Share it on StumbleUpon Share this on del.icio.us Share this on [...]

Resource alert: At bottom of this blog post is a download option for more than a thousand enterprise budgets. Permaculture designers: It’s time to get serious about profitability. Farmers & Greenhorns: You already know what I’m talking about. I’ve been working on an integrated ecological farm design for the Ashokan Center in the Hudson River Valley [...]

There they go again, making liars out of us, undermining our critique that their industry is contributing to the wholesale destruction of water, soil, air and biodiversity. You know what the farmers have done, don’t you? They’ve only gone and realised that a diverse range of endemic, perennial, drought-proof fodder crops are better [...]

Geoff Lawton and Frank Gapinski I just came back from filming all the links to Geoff Lawton’s Permaculture Soils DVD over the weekend. It’s a wrap – finally – with all principal photography completed and now it’s just a matter of finishing off the edit. Squeezing it all [...]

Permaculture is one of the only ways home for humanity. If one believes in modernism, industrial agriculture and better living through chemistry read no further. However, if you feel something is not right about the way we live, read on. I have come to realize that it is because we have been taught from birth to [...]

Compost Tea – Liquid Gold Increase the productivity of your broad-acre farm or small holding – even your own backyard. Paul Taylor, biological farmer, soil science professional and director of Trust Nature Pty Ltd utilises ‘natural systems technology’ and will show you how to increase the productivity of your soil by adhering [...]

Click for full view Courtesy: Marc Roberts Here’s a nice piece on AGW, markets and food-riots, by Raj Patel in the Guardian, and some further words on the biofuel connection. A fine series on urban food solutions at GRIST. Digg this! Share this on Reddit Stumble upon something good? Share it on StumbleUpon Share this on del.icio.us Share this [...]

Course alert: Jesse Lemieux of PRI Canada will be teaching a two-week Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) course, starting November 21 right here at our own Zaytuna Farm (PRI Australia) – and it’s only AU$1200, or AU$1080 if you pay in full at least 30 days before the course starts. Jesse Lemieux and Bill [...]

Welcome to round eight of our Weekly Linkfest, where we share the good, the bad, the ugly and the just plain interesting from what we’ve seen this week. I would greatly appreciate readers getting involved in this weekly linkfest. Please email editor (at) permaculture.org.au with links (and ideally a summary sentence outlining the key point of [...]

Dear NSW Permaculturalists, For some time now Permies in NSW have been talking about having a regular NSW Permaculture gathering. The discussion has been gathering momentum lately and many of us feel it’s time to organize the first such event. The idea is to hold a state convergence late next year on the August long weekend – [...]

Click for full view Courtesy: Marc Roberts A human powered car. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7aapY_yMnQ Digg this! Share this on Reddit Stumble upon something good? Share it on StumbleUpon Share this on del.icio.us Share this on Facebook Post this to MySpace Add this to Google Bookmarks Post this on Diigo Post on Google Buzz Add this to Mister Wong Share this on Mixx Share this on Technorati Tweet This! Seed this on [...]

So, we wanted to make an egg mobile for egg laying chickens to follow behind our dairy cows and fertilise the pasture while scratching the manure that the cows leave behind. The chickens also leave behind their own manure whilst free ranging across pasture. This technique allows the chickens to supplement their diet and produce [...]

Here’s a photo of a famous Permaculture person. Can you guess who it is? He was photographed with this shovel back in 1956 at the age of two. He is wearing a child restraint belt usually attached to a long cord as was customary in those days to prevent him from running away to [...]

Bill and Geoff teaching in Melbourne, September 2009 Photos © copyright Craig Mackintosh There is enough evidence of global problems, but still not enough models of practical solutions. We can live in disorder and pretend order. We can live in lies and pretend truth. To demonstrate life we act. It is not what [...]