ON THE RECOMMENDATION of people in the Evidence-Based Permaculture facebook group I read through Anthony Kelly’s Dealing with Far-Right… — ON THE RECOMMENDATION of people in the Evidence-Based Permaculture facebook group I read through Anthony Kelly’s Dealing with Far-Right Interventions in Left-Wing and Progressive Movements. It is not a long read. I read his paper to see if it could shed any light on recent allegations of such interventions in…

WITH THE DEPARTURE of winter’s rains our soils start to dry and it comes time to think of garden construction. Soils around here reach… — WITH THE DEPARTURE of winter’s rains our soils start to dry and it comes time to think of garden construction. Soils around here reach field capacity in winter. Now, our first bed is built and the seedlings we planted are feeding us. Making the garden To make the beds we reused the wooden…

Further rumination on the political fracture — A FEW WEEKS have passed since David Holmgren and his permaculture banner made their appearance at the Melbourne rally of November 20 against a variety of Covid response issues. …

John Schinnerer — FOR REASONS UNKNOWN John Shinnerer's comment diappeared. I post it following. My response appears below. John Schinnerer Dec 7·1 min read ON NOVEMBER 20, 2021, a controversy erupted in the Australian permaculture network. It would have been interesting to see what would have come of this if two unknown nobodies…

In the interests of clarifying the issue I want to use the design thinking that should be present in permaculture to look at how the issue… — ON NOVEMBER 20, 2021, a controversy erupted in the Australian permaculture network. The controversy continues to unfold as I write. This article should therefore be read as a snapshot of a continuing conversation as it stands in early December. In the interests of clarifying the issue I want to use…

The Trainer Papers were first published in 2010. I am republishing them 21 years after first publication because their perspective may be… — Preamble The Trainer Papers document the late-2009-early-2010 conversations between UNSW lecturer, Ted Trainer, and journalist, Russ Grayson. In The Trainer Papers: 3 documents Ted Trainer’s response to my comments on his critique of the Transition Town and permaculture (and here) movements that appeared in The Trainer Papers 2. The Trainer Papers…

The Trainer Papers were first published in 2010. I am republishing them 21 years after first publication because their perspective may be… — Preamble The Trainer Papers document the late-2009-early-2010 conversations between UNSW lecturer, Ted Trainer, and journalist, Russ Grayson. The Trainer Papers: 3 documents Ted Trainer’s response to my comments on his critique of the Transition Town and permaculture (and here) movements that appeared in The Trainer Papers 2. Ted’s initial critique appears…

The Trainer Papers were first published in 2010. I am republishing them 21 years after first publication because their perspective may be… — Preamble The Trainer Papers document the late-2009 conversations between retired UNSW lecturer, Ted Trainer, and journalist, Russ Grayson. In The Trainer Papers: 2, Russ responds to Ted’s friendly critique of the Transitions Towns movement published in The Trainer Papers: 1.

The Trainer Papers were first published in 2010. I am republishing them 21 years after first publication because their perspective may be… — Preamble The Trainer Papers document the late-2009 conversations between retired UNSW lecturer, Ted Trainer, and journalist, Russ Grayson. The gist of the first of the Trainer Papers is Ted’s friendly critique of the Transition Towns movement which started in the UK then spread to Australia and the USA. When Ted wrote…