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Samsø - the 100% renewable island
Samsø Energy Academiy |
Sunday, 3rd June 2012

The Danish Island of Samsø is world famous for being a CO2-neutral community. Søren Hermansen - The director of The Energy Academy - showed us the alternative energy sources on offer to the islanders. Take this example as a microcosm of possibility and scale it up to national and then international scales.

 

Building a Roundhouse Den
Tony Wrench |
Wednesday, 30th May 2012

Tony Wrench has pioneered low impact roundhouse building with reciprocal frame roofs and cordwood walls. The windows and doors and other fittings are usually 'repurposed'. Here is a short film showing how Tony and friends built a roundhouse den at a course in May 2008.

 

Designing a better world with permaculture – Looby Macnamara
PermacultureMedia |
Thursday, 24th May 2012

Maddy Harland asks permaculture teacher and author, Looby Macnamara, about her vision for a better world and how we can practically make it happen. Looby explains that we have the tools to do this, and that it is indeed within our reach.

 

How to make bio-vital compost – food for free!
Paul Taylor |
Friday, 18th May 2012

Paul Taylor from www.trustnature.com.au explains how to make balanced, fertile aerobic compost in a simple wire container and that can be used on the farm and on community gardens or turned into a bio-innoculant, a compost tea that can fertlize one hectare of land.

 

'A Farm For the Future' - the full length film on peak oil, farming & permaculture
Rebecca Hosking & Tim Green |
Monday, 14th May 2012

In 2009, Rebecca Hosking and Tim Green made an hour long TV programme for BBC2 called 'A Farm For the Future' exploring how peak oil will effect farming and food distribution and why permaculture design, forest gardening and other regenerative agriculture practices could help us to cope with soaring fossil fuel prices that drive current agriculture practices which relies on fertlisers, mechanis

 

Grow your vision! The value of permaculture courses – Aranya speaks to Maddy Harland
John Adams |
Wednesday, 9th May 2012

Maddy Harland interviews Aranya and asks him why people should learn more about permaculture and who his new book Permaculture Design - a step by step guide was written for.

 

Why permaculture design – Aranya speaks to Maddy Harland
permaculture.co.uk |
Thursday, 26th April 2012

Permaculture magazine editor Maddy Harland interviews permaculture teacher and author, Aranya, and asks him what first inspired him about permaculture, why he started teaching people firstly about gardening and then applying permaculture design to a wider perspective and then how he came to write his new book

 

Looby Macnamara on People and Permaculture (Part One)
PermacultureMedia |
Tuesday, 24th April 2012

Maddy Harland asks Looby, permaculture designer and teacher, about the importance of the Peoplecare Ethic in permaculture and what inspired her to write her new book People & Permaculture – caring and designing for ourselves, each other and the planet (signed copies are currently availab