Permaculture – A Quiet Revolution

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Happy birthday Hepburn Wind – Windfarm co-operative

Hepburn Wind started from humble beginnings with a simple, but powerful idea — that our community could own and operate its own wind farm for the benefit of the entire community. We are eternally grateful for the efforts the Hepburn Renewable Energy Association (now known as SHARE) who, with the help of many, established Hepburn Wind [...]

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Forest Garden Pattern Language

appleseedpermaculture writes… “…Dave Jacke & Eric Toensmeier created the first draft of a Forest Garden Pattern Language in Edible Forest Gardens Volume II, which Connor Stedman of Turkey Tail Permaculture concept-mapped last year:..” source pdf description

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Free permaculture Ebooks

green-shopping.co.uk writes… “Permaculture is all about one part of a system trying to help another, so this is our attempt to help replicate that, by sharing permaculture knowledge as freely and as widely as we can. In this section you’ll find a selection of completely free eBook downloads on permaculture and wider environmental topics, including [...]

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Basic infrastructure for successful community gardening

communitygarden.org.au writes… “THERE IS A COMMON SET OF DESIGN ELEMENTS that make the experience of community gardening an enjoyable one. It is a set that has become defined through more than 30 years of community gardening in Australia and that can be considered as the basic infrastructure to include in community garden design and construction. [...]

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Sustainable World Radio

“Jill Cloutier is an environmental educator, freelance writer, and videographer. Jill has been producing Sustainable World Radio since 2004. After surviving her early 20’s, as a militant vegan, (“How could you eat that!?), and a “Voice of Doom”, (“Lester Brown says that we have 8 years left.”), Jill realized that it was much more fun [...]

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Free Range Chicken Song

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Some inspirational Permaculture ideas for sustainable living

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The Urban Farming Guys

Neat!

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Bees foraging coverage map

bees.morkland.org writes… “The honeybee in your hive can cover a huge area during foraging. A study from 1997 showed that the mean foraging distance was 1 km from the hive, but your bees will fly up to 4-5 km (2-3 miles) while foraging. This is a simple tool to measure the foraging area of your [...]

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