Winter 2006 (PM 50)

Powerdown and permaculture |
Rob Hopkins asks how permaculture can influence the mainstream and introduces Transition Town Totnes |
War gardening |
How living history is teaching kids to grow food in Essex by Graham Burnett |
PM business |
Maddy Harland , tells the story of Permanent Publications and the permaculture design thinking behind the company |
Raised vegetable gardening |
How to design and make productive raised beds by Patrick Whitefield |
Something for nothing |
Introducing Freecycle, the free community exchange system that really works |
10 strategies for avoiding burnout |
Working hard and feeling the pace? How to stay healthy and effective with Dr Chris Johnstone |
Transition culture |
Fritjof Capra speaks to Rob Hopkins about learning how to live in an uncertain future |
Education in the jungle |
Jennifer Gray visits a Krishnamurti school in Tamil Nadu and explores its green credentials |
Permaculture people |
Introducing Dr Jimmy Altham , permaculturist and former university lecturer in philosophy |
A few acres in the country |
Chris Smaje describes how his family cleverly integrated the advantages of town and country |
The magical soils of El Dorado |
The story of Terra Preta, the highly fertile selfsustaining ‘black earth’ of the Amazon |
Far from woolly thinking |
How one PM article has launched a new social enterprise in rural Somerset |
Extreme salads |
One man’s quest to grow as many edible salad plants as he can near the Arctic Circle in Norway |
Growing positive young adults |
Sami Grover reports on a permaculture project that is changing young lives in down town Durham, North Carolina |