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 |