Spring 2010 (PM 63)
| Monoculture ~ Permaculture |
| The story of how Tim and Maddy Harland created a beautiful edible garden from a bare field |
| Make A 'Bespoke' Wind Turbine |
| A step by step guide to building a wind turbine from a bicycle wheel by Beth Tilston and Wil Harley |
| Tools For Self Reliance |
| Dom Marsh and his girlfriend Nanda cycled into town and found an unexpected treasure trove |
| Little Shop Of Wonders |
| How Ben Law built a community-owned eco-shop in his local village by Maddy Harland |
| Reconnecting With London's Fruiting Heritage |
| Wade Muggleton tells us how the London Orchard Project was set up |
| Ecovillage Living In Russia |
| Fedor Lazutin and Dmitriy Vatolin introduce their beautiful ecovillage in the Kaluga region |
| PM Festival Guide 2010 |
| Solar Enlightenment |
| Why the buy-back price for micro-generated electricity is about to change by Howard Johns |
| Getting (Seed) SatisfactionREAD NOW |
| Avante-gardener, Emma Cooper, shares top tips and trials growing unusual fruit and veg |
| Eclectic Education |
| Does home education encourage creativity and is it under threat of legislation? Jil Haris reports |
| Nettle – King Of My Patch! |
| Gardener and healer, Rachel Corby, explores the many uses of this versatile weed |
| Awakening At The Point Of No Return |
| Aran Stibbe asks whether climate change is irreversible and if so how do we adapt? Will our lives ironically become more precious |
| Bird-Light |
| A poem by Karen Eberhardt Shelton |
| Seven Steps To Creating Collective Intelligence |
| Kosha Anja Joubert presents a method to help us build resilient communities and understand our complex 21st century reality more effectively |
Winter 2009 (PM 62)
| Living without money |
| Mark Boyle tells us how he does it so well that a year’s experiment is being extended indefinitely |
| Is Transition working? |
| Gil Seyfang presents the result of the first UK Transition Movement survey. PM Exclusive |
| The winter allotment |
| Plan some practical allotment projects. Paul Wagland offers some useful tips and ideas |
| Building a zero-carbon country |
| Donnachadh McCarthy meets Bil Dunster and discovers his visionary yet practical plan for genuinely sustainable buildings |
| The joy of juice |
| Wade Muggleton urges us all to get juicing and shares his tips for simple apple cider |
| Sustainable beekeeping |
| Part Two of David Heaf’s popular article on how to make a Warré hive |
| Growing permaculture in Malawi |
| How permaculture has become part of the national curriculum in this central African country |
| Grofun |
| Nadia Hilman introduces a clever and easily replicable initiative for urban food self-reliance |
| Transition to economic resilience |
| Rob Hopkins explores how permacuture principles can be applied to business |
| Afraid of speaking your mind? |
| An effective way of resolving conflicts and building harmonious communites by Rob Dreaming |
| How to prepare for when the power does down |
| A householder’s guide to coping well when the national power supplies overload and fail |
| The recycled urban garden |
| Patrick Whitefield visits a productive low-cost urban garden that thrives even in the shade |
| Solar powered greenhouse |
| How to make a year round fossil-fuel free heating and cooling system for an ordinary greenhouse by Andrew Colins |
Autumn 2009 (PM 61)
| My kitchen garden |
| Emma Cooper describes the summertime flourishings of her prolific urban patch |
| Reconnecting land and people |
| Why is planning so hard to get for genuine low impact development? Mike Hannis visits projects and explores what needs to change |
| Sustainable beekeeping |
| With global honeybee populations plummeting, David Heaf offers a possible solution in the form of the Warré hive |
| Cycling for sustainability |
| Juliet Kemp’s useful tips for ditching the car and converting to pedal power for our daily transport |
| A stitch in time |
| How climate change and peak oil has inspired John-Paul Flintoff to shun the fashion industry and make and mend his own clothes |
| Permaculture principles |
| Maddy Harland takes a fresh look at the principles that underpin permaculture design |
| Creating harmony |
| Michiyo Furuhashi introduces a Japanese ecovillage that is almost entirely self-sufficient and is teaching sustainable agriculture to its neighbours |
| The art of reading the landscape |
| Understanding landscape is not only fun, it is a vital way of understanding sustainability and reconnecting with the Earth. Patrick Whitefield explains why |
| A new woodsman's tale |
| How PM made Ian Varley’s mid-life crisis definitely worth having, enabling him to live his dream and make a living working with wood |
| Champion the lumber horse |
| Mike Abbott describes how to make a modern, efficient shaving horse from mainly scrap materials in just a couple of hours |
| Les porcs in permaculture |
| How to be happy keeping pigs in permaculture. Stuart & Gabrielle Anderson share their experience of raising pigs on their smallholding in France |
| Catch 'n' store water |
| With climate change threatening drought as well as flood, Daniel Halsey explains how to design resilience into your orchard or farm |