Autumn 2008 (PM 57)
| Urban self-reliance |
| Chris Southall describes his family’s journey towards urban eco-living and describes some of his low cost permaculture projects |
| 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 |
| How to make home-made paints |
| Award winning cob builders, Adam & Katy Weismann, share their low cost recipes for natural paints and finishes |
| The greatest danger |
| Deep ecologist and Buddhist scholar, Joanna Macy, urges us to open up to the uncertainty of our times and thereby find our power |
| The world needs your passion |
| Tired of gloomy predictions for our future? Corrina Gordon invites us to follow our heart, the route to an engaged and inspired life |
| Permaculture people |
| Introducing Achim Ecker, who has transformed 14 hectares of a former East German spy base into a peaceful permaculture haven |
| Building sustainability into our DNA |
| Pooran Desai and Daniel Viliesid describe the development of One Brighton, a pioneering eco-apartment scheme |
| Guerilla gardening |
| The gentle art of illicit cultivation! Rachel Puddefoot describes how the guerrilla gardening movement is blooming in London |
| How to get hold of land |
| Giles Simon describes how pioneering urban and rural projects have got hold of land at well below market value |
| Ecovillages move into the mainstream |
| What are ecovillages for and are they moving towards the mainstream? Jonathan Dawson asks if there has been a sea change |