Permaculture the Good, Bad and the ...
Patrick Whitefield grasps the nettle and explains what permaculture design is and when the principles are applied well ... or badly.
Lily Cole's Impossible
Mark Boyle chats with actress, supermodel and environmentalist Lily Cole, who has set up the gift economy site, impossible.com
Notes from a Small Garden – Part 3 – Six Years On
Wade Muggleton explains how he has adapted his limited growing space by carefully balancing what he grows with what he eats.
A Visit to Charles Dowding's No Dig Garden
Maddy and Tim Harland visit market gardener, Charles Dowding's no dig garden and are wowed by the yumminess of it all.
Shedding Light on LEDs
John Adams looks at the lighting revolution that can dramatically reduce your bills as well as being kinder to the planet.
Log Now, Burn Later
Will Rolls suggests we should be thinking about next winter's logs to get the hottest, most energy efficient and money saving burn from our stoves.
Ponds, Pallets and Hugelkultur
Liz Darley describes how she used pallets to make hugelkultur beds around her new pond.
Community Rebuilds
Matching needs to yields is the key to the success of a sustainable housing non-profit organisation based in Utah, in the USA; writes Rebecca Barrett.
Growing Soya Beans
Deano Martin describes a three year experiment, inoculating and growing soya beans in polycultures in the UK.
Locking Up Carbon
Albert Bates explores the most effective way to stabilise the global climate.
Natural Farming
Joan Bailey visits a farm in Japan that is following in the footsteps of Fukuoka.
Five Awesome Transition Ideas
We picked five inspiring, ideas from Rob Hopkins' new book, The Power of Just Doing It.
7 Easy Steps to a Successful Annual Polyculture
Vera Greutink on how to grow more vegetables than you can imagine in just 2 square metres.
DIY Self-watering Container Garden
Mark Ridsdill Smith explains how to make a genuinely self-watering container garden which can double your yields.
Before the Woodland House
In an extract from his book Woodsman, Ben Law describes how he made a yurt to shelter his family, in the years before his Woodland House was built.
Message in a Bottle
Christopher and Sheila Cooke and Ludwig Appeltans explore why permaculture can become the next step in our evolutionary development.
Compact Living
Michael Guerra introduces us to a sustainable design idea ... that of living more compactly
Optimise Your Health
Flo Scott applied permaculture thinking to develop a good quality of life.
The Moneyless Manifesto
Mark Boyle describes how we can free ourselves from that ravenous beast – The Economy.
Scavenger Technology
Cathy Ashley takes us on a tour of her permaculture home – an 'evolving' council house on a quest to become a farm!
Wwoofing Around The World
Rebecca Huntley tries her hand at range of jobs on organic farms and gardens, while travelling on a budget.
Incan Agriculture Revisited
Matthew Seal and Julie Bruton-Seal take an excursion into the ancient Andean agriculture of the Incas.
Permanent Horticulture
Deano Martin experiments with John Jeavons' biointensive growing methods and other aspects of permanent horticulture.
Making a Solar Food Dryer
John Adams describes how he made a solar food dehydrator and how it performed in a less than typical British summer.