Voices Of Women In Permaculture

The Most Vulnerable even More Vulnerable Now

COVID-19, time to embrace complexity By Luiza Oliveira As expected, COVID-19 has been spreading exponentially (1). Safety measurements have been oriented by the World Health…

Somos Naturaleza

Interiorizando nuestro ecosistema interior By Rosaura Ruiz Parece una cosa bastante obvia, pero que si la entendemos verdaderamente (no con la mente, sino con las…

Quarantine is my Refining Fire

There’s no time like the present to deal with put-off problems. By Kali Morgan It’s ironic that coronavirus showed its ugly face right at the…

Nature of a Resilient Heart

By Nihan Sevinc Uncertain times call for resilient hearts. Hearts that know how to feel and release. A resilient heart welcomes emotions, like a tree…

The Small Beauties and The Universe of Wonders

By Luiza Oliveira By the Spontaneously Creative Plants and a Human Hello, Little Flower. Hello, “Giant” Person. I didn’t see you here a few days ago.…

What is the Price for Belonging?

By Julia Pereira Dias A lot of our expectations are not our own. Culture shapes what we think about the world, about what people, including…

The Poetic Garden

By the Spontaneously Creative Plants By Luiza Oliveira I come along when winter is no longer around. I thrive where others find too hard to be,…

Why It’s Worth to Surrender to Those Annoying Little Moments in Life

By Julia Pereira Dias We’re told that everything happens for a reason. But really, what good could possibly lie in those everyday irritating instances such…

Shedding Skin

Things We Can Let Go Of In A Crisis. By Priya Logan Sometimes we are like snakes that have outgrown our skins. Sometimes, we need to…

Love in the time of Corona

By Priya Logan One of the most impactful books I have ever read was The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, which is a memoir transcribed…

Green Tara, The Ecofeminist Goddess, Shows Us How To Embody Regenerative Culture

By Dido Dunlop Green Tara is a role model, to become a wise woman, and live in an ecofeminist way. Many of us who are…

6 Steps to Befriend Your Fears and Get a Life

By Julia Pereira Dias I could start the article by suggesting that the corona virus was designed and spread by the toilet paper industry, but…

Having kids in a climate crisis: can you do it? I’m too scared

By Gudrun Cartwright As always, I was fascinated by what happened in Davos this year. If not necessarily encouraged. Donald Trump criticised climate ’prophets of…

Allotted peace

My allotment, a small gateway into the living land, has been of prime importance to my connection to the ground of Permaculture. I have been…

Avoid These Common Mistakes After Your Permaculture Design Certificate Course…

By Karryn Olson Often, after an in-depth permaculture learning experience, folks emerge with the desire to change their living or working situations so that they…

Ecotopia? Other worlds are possible but only through struggle

By Becky Ellis The 2020s are going to be about struggle but if we do it right, it will be collective and (mostly) joyful Everyone who…

5 Ways to Overcome Despair and Have Fun Doing So

By Julia Pereira Dias They say the best way to avoid your own tantrum is to count to ten. It’s never worked for me. This…

Everyone is Fake!

By Julia Pereira Dias Few terms get the heat up as quickly as ‘fake’ these days. Everybody hates the fakes. Except here is the truth:…

Eco activism – why I got myself arrested

By Klaudia van Gool Last month I joined the Extinction Rebellion actions in Bristol and got myself arrested for willingly obstructing a highway. I’m not…

Breaking Down and Building Up

By Gisa Seeholzer Building a community through growing something sustainable can be a challenge. Over the past few months I have learned more and grown…

Matavenero

The time I visited the oldest ecocommunity in Spain By Elena Pollen Long before moving to Spain, or, a few months actually, my partner &…

Writing to get my mojo back

By Gudrun Cartwright Today I need to write. For the last few weeks I have been consumed with work. I have written for that purpose,…

Have We Reached the End of Positive Thinking?

By Julia Pereira Dias So, I hear that positive thinking has fallen from grace. It has “brainwashed [us] into thinking that that confidence will eventually…

Tribute to Polly

By Aline Van Moerbeke A couple of months ago we spoke, not long, but she was there, in flesh and blood, shining and vibrating, alive.…

How to let go: a permaculture mental health strategy

releasing old pain by dealing with grief, caring for your body, making art, and getting dirty

What’s in a Name?

Arbitrary label or a point of connection? By Roshnii Rose What’s in a name? That which we call a rose,By any other name would smell…

Calling Generation X: is it up to us to save the planet?

By Gudrun Cartwright Will Generation X please stand up? It is time for us to own our power and create a world that works for…

A Long Way Home

By Helen iles It’s early morning. The sun is already flooding the woodland scene outside my window, when a robin hops onto the patio table…

What does it mean to be an adult in the 21st Century?

By Gudrun Cartwright What does the term ‘grown up’ bring to mind for you? In a society where growing older is seen as a bad…

Thou Shalt Not Unhamster

By Julia Pereira Dias Not everyone is frustrated about not having followed their dreams. I know a number of wonderful people that live the ‘normal…

How Good is Good Enough?

By Julia Pereira Dias One of my passions is looking at what sticks in our minds like glue and takes away the space we need…

A Little Course in Mental Gardening: Grub up the Guilt

By Julia Pereira Dias When I was about eleven years old, my little brother, then six, slipped me a note to invite me to his…

Book Review: City of Refuge by Starhawk

City of Refuge is Starhawk’s powerful and profound sequel to the Fifth Sacred Thing.

My personal experience with Inner Landscape Design

Necessity is a good motivator.

How to Compost Your Pain

By Dido Dunlop (part of a talk at our New Zealand Permaculture gathering 2015, exploring how we can apply Nature’s ecosystems model to human relationships,…