Winter 2009 (PM 62)

Living without money |
Mark Boyle tells us how he does it so well that a year’s experiment is being extended indefinitely |
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 |
The joy of juice |
Wade Muggleton urges us all to get juicing and shares his tips for simple apple cider |
Sustainable beekeeping |
Part Two of David Heaf’s popular article on how to make a Warré hive |
Growing permaculture in Malawi |
How permaculture has become part of the national curriculum in this central African country |
Grofun |
Nadia Hilman introduces a clever and easily replicable initiative for urban food self-reliance |
Transition to economic resilience |
Rob Hopkins explores how permacuture principles can be applied to business |
Afraid of speaking your mind? |
An effective way of resolving conflicts and building harmonious communites by Rob Dreaming |
How to prepare for when the power does down |
A householder’s guide to coping well when the national power supplies overload and fail |
The recycled urban garden |
Patrick Whitefield visits a productive low-cost urban garden that thrives even in the shade |
Solar powered greenhouse |
How to make a year round fossil-fuel free heating and cooling system for an ordinary greenhouse by Andrew Colins |