Summer 2010 (PM 64)
| Life Beyond Appearances |
| Maddy Harland visits Geoffrey and Sue Hughes' eco-build and woodland enterprise an innovative framework for creating sustainable ways of living; a practical method for developing ecologically harmonious, efficient and productive systems that can be used by anyone, anywhere |
| DIY Pallet Chair |
| How to make a comfortable Airondack chair for free from reclaimed timber with John Adams |
| Community Generation |
| Mark Laiosa visits Samsø, a Danish island entirely powered by renewable energy |
| Commonsense Smallholding |
| Patrick Whitefield visits a permaculture smallholding and finds out how it pays its way |
| Fruitful Forest Gardening |
| Jude Dunn explores an abundant and robust edible landscape created by careful design |
| The Avatar Effect |
| Avatar is our first 'deep ecology' blockbuster film. Chris Johnstone explains why it can be a powerful motivator for positive change |
| Lessons In Self Reliance |
| Elin Lindhagen visits a wonderful example of food security and peace from a community that borders Zimbabwe and Mozambique |
| Outdoor Living |
| Tips from Maddy Harland and friends on living and cooking outside |
| Divine Inspiration |
| Simon Cross explores the self-sufficient tradition of Britain’s monastic orders |
| The Suburban Domestic Duck |
| The joys and practicalities of keeping ducks in a small garden with Cathy Ashley |
| Permaculture Primary |
| Imogen Oxley describes how permaculture design has been successfully applied to a schoo |
| Storing Summer's Bounty |
| Olivia Heal investigates how to store summer harvests using lacto-fermentation at home |
| Tea Trees |
| A family firm plants over one million trees and shows how business can be a force for good, Sam Gibson explains |
| Simple Solar Surveying |
| Stuart Anderson shows us how to maximise plant yields and solar efficiency by identifying the path of the sun |
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 |