Livelihood

Reasons to Grow Calendula

If you’re brainstorming the coming season’s garden and are looking for a low-maintenance, multi-use, beautiful, and long-blooming flower, look no further, grow calendula!

Emergent Herbalism; plants, people, and culture

The cross-cultural use of herbs and herbal medicine has experienced a significant resurgence in the past several decades. This emergent herbalism has become a popular method of alternative medicine as well as a profitable commercial industry.

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,…

What is Ecofeminism? In a nutshell — how to save the world

What is Ecofeminism? The five elements are one way to explain.

Harvesting Abundance: Another Twist on the Third Permaculture Ethic

Different perspectives on the third permaculture ethic

A survival guide to teenage drama that just gets worse with age

A survival guide to teenage drama to make sure you’re not depleting your renewable resources to the point your internal landscape turns into a barren land (at least as friendships are concerned.)

Permaculture sector analysis: identifying risks and designing solutions

Permaculture sector analysis is about designing the world we want while acknowledging the realities of the world we live in.

Permaculture Design: Outside the Box…and Into Nature

Get unstuck and wild with your own permaculture design

Top Ten Tips for Gardening on a Budget

Don't have much money? Gardening on a budget is possible to do. Here's how.

Waste Not Want Not: Twelve Rs of Recycling

Here are Twelve Rs of recycling to help guide you on your way to cutting down on waste. It may seem a simple goal, but it can be eye opening, and have surprising repercussions in all aspects of your life.

Women in Permaculture: Why should you learn permaculture from women?

By Silvia Di Blasio “I raise up my voice — not so I can shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard…we cannot succeed…

The fight is on. Abortion rights

By Gosia Rokicka On Friday 23rd March 2018 Polish women (and everyone else who supports the cause) will speak out against Polish parliament’s plan to…

Send a Care Bear Stare: Progressives & Permaculture in the Rural Heartland

Finding permaculture in America.

Design anything with the GOBRADIME permaculture design process

An easy, circular permaculture design process for gardens, community projects, creative work, and so much more. By Heather Jo Flores (excerpted and fully revised from my…

How to make the best of an Online Permaculture Design Course

There's extra flexibility and time when you take an online permaculture design course

Revisiting the ecological Imperative as Ethical Livelihoods

If we don’t seriously address the individual, economic and social needs of the people, the ecological imperative will be always left behind.

Let’s Talk People Care: Decolonizing Permaculture

Decolonizing permaculture through people care and examining relationships.

The Art of Hosting within permaculture

What does it mean to host yourself and others in these deep times? And how does that connect with permaculture?What is the Art of Hosting?

What’s a regenerative approach to ending sexual harassment?

Permaculture and a regenerative approach to ending sexual harassment

Earth Based Spirituality and Permaculture — The 5 Elements as a Design Tool

Earth Based Spirituality, using Earth, fire, air, water and spirit to as a tool to design my journey to Andalucía.

Re-Imagining Alternative Economic Systems

Alternative Economic Systems, untangling the tongue-tied transition from capitalism to cooperation.

Transition Economics: Principles of Financial Permaculture

Financial permaculture in action

How to Save Water (and Yourself): ten things you can do

Translation: Essential steps towards the survival of the human species by Heather Jo Flores Here are ten top strategies for saving our water and ourselves. They…

Principles of Presence:

Applying Permaculture Design and Integral Theory to Personal Development By Jennifer English Morgan The image of a woman wearing a golden straw hat with a…

How to collect Feedback, the art of Evaluation and Renegotiation

Clear feedback is vital to any project. In this article I'll show you how to collect feedback.

The Elephant at the Front Door: A Designers Approach to Shadow Work

By Jennifer English Morgan Crash, clatter, smash, tink, tink. A careless boy’s ball shatters the front window pane. A scorned lover flings a picture frame…

How to Organize a Seed Swap

Whether you save your own seeds or just have a bunch of leftover packets from years past, a seed swap is a great way to…

Decolonizing Permaculture: Bridging the gap between privilege and oppression

by Heather Jo Flores As Published in issue #98 of Permaculture Design Magazine, November 2015 First of all, I want to say that I do…

The World Needs an Anti-Harassment Movement: So Does Permaculture.

An anti-harassment movement is needed in permaculture, here's why.

Permaculture on the edge

Building an anti/beyond/despite capitalist movement By Becky Ellis Permaculture is a philosophy and set of practices aimed at creating regenerative human spaces that mimic natural…