Design Thinking · Permaculture Women Magazine

Teachings of the Thistle

An exploration of an alternative view on a common perennial weed: approaching with curiosity, gratitude and a sense of reciprocity.

Regenerating Our Reality through Circular Economy

Circular economy is not just a big concept for governments and economists, but something real that we can immediately put into practice as individuals.

The role of the farmer in a thriving agro-ecological system

A critical exploration of the concepts of balance and self-sustenance as applied in permaculture and ecological agriculture.

The garden in the mind, your mind on your garden

Education and gradual friendly change is more way effective than division.

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.

Food and water are the baselines of every culture. We will neglect every single thing good about any culture until we understand why people eat and how they eat, and how passed down from generations and generations the “question of food” really is. There is no healing at all until one heals its relationship with food.

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?!

Sowing Ideas

A perspective on how to care for the nature and the biodiversity within and around us.

What Indigenous spiritual knowledge can teach us about regenerative design

Native stories about natural spirits which comprise the reality of things can help us a lot in thinking in regenerative terms.

Applying Graphic Design Principles to Social Permaculture

In working on a specific part of a social design I realized there is no way to design something in which a considered minority is excluded.

“Design for Catastrophe” in Your Livelihood

How to become more resilient by preparing for when the crap hits the fan

The Art Of Dying Creatively

Dying Creatively: Using permaculture design to improve how we die

Integrity dynamics

Integrity dynamics and identity

A Design Cycle Application: GOBRADIMET

Sample design description and activity worksheet for GOBRADIMET.

Approaching menopause as a childfree woman

By Gudrun Cartwright As a woman in my late forties, I am definitely approaching menopause. I feel in that ‘peri’ state. Even though I am…

War, what is it good for?

War, what is it good for? We need more compassion and understanding.

Musings on pandemics, food sovereignty and everyday life

What are the real costs of our current food system? How do we find food sovereignty?

Buddhist Meditation and Regenerative Culture

By Dido Dunlop Our hearts and outer world grow hearty together To restore Mother Nature, and grow tomatoes in our cities, we must redesign our inner…

Hierarchies vs Networks

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

Doulas and Permaculture

Doulas and permaculture ethics.

Finding Permaculture in Iran

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

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…

How to Learn Permaculture for Free

A hands-on guide for the frugal beginner to learn permaculture without spending any money.

What permaculture is and isn’t

Hint: it’s NOT a revolution disguised as gardening.

If You Guild It, They Will Come: How to Grow a Permaculture Food Forest

group plants together for specific reasons, encourage them to spread into permanent, self-managing landscapes

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?

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…

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…

Ecofeminism and Permaculture

Personal and world transformation with ecofeminism and permaculture.

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…

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?

How can our we create regenerative livelihoods?

What would a regenerative livelihood look like to you?

Lasagna Gardening 101

What is Lasagna Gardening? How to build a “lazy garden” in 3 easy steps.

Growing Food and Medicine: The Good, The Bad and The Heartbreak

Some hard truths about growing food and medicine.

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.

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.`