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Growing Old With Permaculture

How much thought have you given to aging? Using the permaculture design process, consider creating a plan for your elder years.

Women Who Ask, Women Who Listen: Social Permaculture and Laying Stones for Peace

Modern permaculture, built from traditional ecological knowledge has the opportunity to embrace the wisdom of indigenous perspectives, a frame-shift for the entire movement ripe in the present moment, as well as knowledge gleaned from the ever evolving and powerful social justice movement, if we can have to courage to reckon with the past.

Community Building: Social and Spiritual Permaculture for Intentional Communities and Transition Towns

Our ecovillage set up ‘invisible structures’, to build a strong community, to work together well, from practical land care to our deepest vision.

My Permaculture Wealth Building Journey

Permaculture offers a rich toolkit for designing for holistic abundance not only in our landscapes, but our personal finances as well.

How to get started with zone 00 design? My experience with designing my inner landscape

This article is the second of a series about designing for your inner landscape | you can read the first part there: What is zone 00 design and why should you start yours?!

Social Permaculture: Language and its barriers to understanding

We, humans, invented language to name things to understand them by expanding on their meaning, but my proposal is that right now it hinders our understanding of things more than it helps. Particularly language that it’s either too formal or too loose in terms of meaning and understanding.

Colonial Trauma: No, I Won’t Confess, I Will Say It Out Loud!

A poem about wounds created by Patriarchy, Religion, and Capitalism.

Permaculture for Pregnancy

Permaculture can be used as a tool to improve all aspects of our lives. During pregnancy, its easy to become overwhelmed by the bombardment from media and people of what you ‘ should be’ doing, how you should look and what you should buy. Permaculture provides an empowering framework through which to curate pregnancy decisions.

Growing Urban Community Resilience Gardens in Los Angeles

by Devorah Brous I’ve been working with faith-institutions since 2011 to repurpose vacant institutional land into edible gardens and orchards to foster healthy, water-wise environments…

Caring for (More-than-Natal) Kin in Times of Loss

I think of the countless beings displaced by and lost to the flames, of the places and plants and memories mingling in the ash, of all those struggling to breathe.

How to Have Difficult Conversations

How do we have difficult conversations? Any time we expect a conversation to be(come) difficult, it is because we assume that either the other person will reject what we propose or they will be hurt by what we share with them. I want to talk about the latter.

Creative Economy and Fringe Empowerment

How to connect de-urbanism, creative industries, regenerative practices, solidarity economies and social entrepreneurship.

The Art Of Dying Creatively

Dying Creatively: Using permaculture design to improve how we die

We can do better: Resources and Options for Solidarity with Queer people in permaculture.

Resources for the queer people in permaculture

Permaculture communication skills

Permaculture communication skills, speaking with compassion and the need to be understood.

Hierarchies vs Networks

Governments vs people power, hierarchies vs networks and response to crisis.

Permaculture Ethics in Public Education

Using permaculture ethics in public education to engage children in sustainable efforts.

It’s not enough to be an environmentalist. We must be anti-racist environmentalists.

Racism and climate change are linked in many ways. We must be anti-racist environmentalists.

Am I Racist?

The first question I have to ask myself is am I racist?

Celtic Wisdom and Regenerative Culture — After Corona Virus

We can use celtic wisdom and regenerative culture to deepen our connection with the Earth

Building a Better World Out of Uncertainty

Building a better world

Doulas and Permaculture

Doulas and permaculture ethics.

Finding Permaculture in Iran

Despite what Western media commonly reports, there is permaculture in Iran.

Do you want to teach permaculture? Here’s what you need to know.

10 steps to becoming a qualified permaculture teacher, and recommended teacher training programs, from the PWG Faculty.

Why should farmers get subsidies?

Over recent years, there has been a growing resentment about the subsidies farmers receive. But why do farmers get subsidies anyway?

Regenerative Right Livelihood: a pattern for shifting towards life-honoring work

It's difficult to live in a way that doesn't harm the planet. What would a Regenerative Right Livelihood look like?

Small-scale farmers — not lab-based foods — can help save the planet

Over the past few decades there has been a consolidating of power and control in the food system into the hands of a small group of agro-chemical corporations, we need more small-scale farmers to produce healthy organic food.

Human Dormancy

Trees lose their leaves over winter. Perhaps we should do the same and experience human dormancy.

Planting Trees to Feed Future Generations

Permaculture approaches to feeding the world in a changing climate, planting trees to feed future generations.

The Unlikely Relationship Between Fear, Cheese, and Permaculture

What happened when I stopped letting fear get in the way of me fulfilling my dreams, or my relationship between fear and cheese.

Why do we need to hear more from women in permaculture?

How patriarchy makes us blind to healthy sisterhood, and how to reclaim it back with women in permaculture.

Ethical Marketing: Pro-Tips for Your Right Livelihood

Essential tips for online entrepreneurs, especially if you’re relatively new at this and have spent any time at all resisting learning about “marketing” because it’s yucky.`

Toward a permaculture for the people

Care of the Earth. Care of people. Fair surplus sharing. For whom? We need a permaculture for the people.

Are you in Right Relation?

What it means to live in right relation

Why I love teaching permaculture

The benefits of teaching permaculture extend beyond disseminating knowledge to exploring personal edges and enjoying the thrill of living in the moment.