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 |