Bike removalists
My wonderful housemate Kat moved to our new place by bicycle. Here’s a video we put together from the footage. Kat writes: We put the word out and a crew of fifteen showed up with panniers, trailers,...
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The Transition Handbook
The Transition Towns project (now Transition Initiatives) is the embodiment of community driven holistic regional planning. A new book The Transition Handbook: From oil dependency to local resilience...
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From Gardener to Futurist
Co-Founder of Sustainable Design Movement Illuminates our Uncertain Futures FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Date: 26 May 2008 The Australian co-founder of the permaculture concept David Holmgren has today...
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Crikey! Oil Futures: A series on oil, the future, and you
Crikey, the popular online politics magazine is running a series on oil futures, and I was the first interviewee. The high price of petrol today is causing discomfort among motorists. So much so that...
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I was a guest this week on Channel 31′s Conflict of Interest, hosted by Peter Farris QC and Greg Barns. The topic was “petrol prices and where they are heading”. The format of this show is that Greg...
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Permablitz Update
The more I do face to face work, facilitating courses and permablitzes and working outside, the less time I find to update this blog, and while I regret that, damn do I feel lucky to be surrounded by...
View ArticleEat The Suburbs: the film!
Eat the Suburbs: Gardening for the End of the Oil Age A film by Tanya Curnow, 2006. EAT THE SUBURBS takes the oil debate from the bowser to the backyard and follows Melbourne’s “permablitzers” as they...
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Very Edible Gardens
So I’ve been busy launching and working with my friends Dan, Paul and Nathe on our new business: Very Edible Gardens (VEG). Dan is the founder of permablitz and Paul has designed more properties for...
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Future Scenarios book launch
I’m launching a book by the highly respected co-founder of permaculture, David Holmgren, which delves into various possible futures, and ways to prepare for them: Future Scenarios: How Communities Can...
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Melbourne Transition Initiatives
For those that don’t know, the Transition Towns (or Transition Initiatives) movement is a grass roots regional planning framework for finding positive solutions to peak oil and climate change. In the...
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