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Buy Nothing Day 2012 is Approaching, Could You Stop Spending for One Day?

Mark Boyle |

Tuesday, 20th November 2012

It's a classic scene from The Simpsons. A flock of marketing executives sit around a large table in a boardroom; sales, they're told, are down in the third fiscal quarter, and they're the people whose raison d'être is to make the graphs head...

10 Ways Permaculture Principles Can Help Your Relationships

Kim Millar |

Sunday, 18th November 2012

Most of us don't 'design' our relationships consciously, we're more likely to stumble and/or bumble along in the hopes that they'll grow in the right direction. They usually catch our attention only when things have gone wrong and we scramble around trying to...

Medlar curd, wine and a recipe for medlar jelly

Maddy Harland |

Tuesday, 13th November 2012

Continuing my ocassional series on my favouirte forest garden trees, the Medlar (Mespilus germanica) has to score highly in my collection because it is a robust tree that needs little attention other than a regular annual...

Using Permaculture Media & Advertising to Incite the Good in People

Jenny Nazak |

Sunday, 4th November 2012

Jerry Mander is right: images from television, and particularly advertising, do dominate our minds to a dangerous degree. But banning or otherwise suppressing this form of expression isn't a...

How to Crowdfund Your Permaculture Project

Georgina-Kate Adams |

Wednesday, 31st October 2012

A friend recently returned to the UK from Portugal. After two years searching, she had finally found her dream plot, but to bring her permaculture project to life, she was forced to work until she could afford to fund it. It's not an uncommon tale, but what other...

Applying Permaculture Principles to Transportation – Save Money, Get Healthy and Be Happy!

Jenny Nazak |

Thursday, 25th October 2012

Personal transportation accounts for a big part of our fossil-fuel consumption. We (everyday people) can make the world a greener place very quickly through our transportation choices. But not everyone can afford to go out and buy one of those cute little electric...

Minimize and Downsize with Tiny Home Living – 10 steps to reducing consumption

Sebastian von Holstein |

Monday, 8th October 2012

When my partner and I moved out of our modern, spacious one bedroom house to go and live in my parent’s cold, rooftop attic room, we had to seriously reconsider the amount of stuff we had accumulated over the years.

Children enjoy a riverside garden in the Phillipines in what was a polluted slum area ©Biomatrix Water Technology

Permaculture beyond ecological design - can it also be used to create more harmonious, low carbon societies?