| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Ethics in permaculture |
| Maddy Harland writes about how ethics can underpin good design and right action in permaculture |
| Grow-our-own |
| The story of a highly successful community allotment scheme that practically helps people grow and pick their own food |
| Building a simple wood-fired oven and cooking in it |
| Urban forager, Chris Southall, shares his outdoor cooking design – build and eat! |
| National treasure grows organically |
| Stephanie Boucher visits Sissinghurst Castle and discovers how the estate is relocalising its food supply and embracing sustainable principles on the whole estate |
| How to have a green wedding |
| A reader’s guide to having an inexpensive yet chic wedding. Jenny Larby shows us that tying the knot doesn’t have to unravel the planet |
| Foraging for spring greens |
| After a long, cold, dark winter, Steve Andrews shares the pleasure of foraging for simple foods in springtime |
| Planning and planting a container garden |
| Jackie Kemp describes how to grow food in urban spaces, however small |
| Two women, an eco-build and a full-time job |
| How mother and daughter, Jenny and Maggie Pickerill, built an ecohouse together |
| Wild medicine foraging |
| Rachel Corby describes common garden and wild plants that have the power to heal acute ailments and save you money |
| Sharing the journey |
| Worried about rising fuel prices? Maddy Harland checks out a liftshare scheme that could save you £1,000 a year |
| Fire escape gardening |
| PM’s Penny Rose describes her rather vertically challenged urban container garden |
| Ethical, green shoes |
| In PM56 Georgina-Kate Adams investigated green clothes. Here she checks out green shoes and the PM team tests them for you |