The mycelium infuses all landscapes, it holds soils together, it’s extremely tenacious. This holds up to 30,000 times its mass. They’re the grand molecular disassemblers of nature — the soil magicians. They generate the humus soils across the land masses of Earth. We have now discovered that there is a multi-directional transfer of nutrients between [...]
Meet Ben Law and enjoy the process of how he builds his house out of the woodland surrounding him. It is beautiful, impressive, inspiring… [googlevideo]http://video.google.de/videoplay?docid=9008769522888708228&hl=de[/googlevideo] Also I recommend his book: The Woodland Way, A Permaculture Approach to Sustainable Woodland Management
I recently found this article, and i would like to share it. It originally was published on youthradio.org. Palestinians Regard Permaculture As A Necessity, Not A Choice By Nora Barrows-Friedman Back in my hometown of Berkeley, California, the practice of permaculture is associated within a feel-good, hippie-elite framework. It’s a choice, just like buying locally [...]
I just found this very accessible and calm film made for the BBC. It provides a lot of information on our current food system and on possible alternative low energy farming. However, this different approach will require a change of habits we have (like plowing the fields and having our food being based on cereal [...]
I didn’t feature this site, yet. So I will do it now, because I think it is well worth it. (I mentioned it here, already, though.) David Holmgren, the co-originator of the permaculture concept, published a website in may last year, on which he maps out the cultural implications of peak-oil and climate change: www.futurescenarios.org [...]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWnhYIIKY0U[/youtube] More on the context: http://www.rainwaterharvesting.org/ Excellent input/creative solutions to this topic: http://www.harvestingrainwater.com/
Das Energiewende Handbuch ist jetzt seit einiger Zeit beim Zweitausendeins Verlag erschienen. Im Spätsommer letzten Jahres hatte mich der Verlag gebeten, ein Nachwort zu verfassen, da ich am Anfang des Jahres bereits an einem Transition Training in Totnes/England teilgenommen hatte. Ich sollte versuchen, dem Handbuch ein wenig den Weg nach Deutschland zu ebnen und dem [...]
‘We’ve got multiple products coming from different production systems and over the years there has been a tremendous amount of insulation against variations in the market. In that sense I think that permaculture’s got a very valuable lesson for farmers in the 21st century.’ Rod May, one of Australia’s most succesful and prominent organic farmers [...]
Ich komme gerade von der Jahres-Konferenz des Rates für Nachhaltige Entwicklung. Alles in allem geht/ging es dort (noch) sehr wenig um Selbstermächtigung. (Und was die Moderatorin unseres Forums von einer ‘Nachhaltigkeits-Konferenz der TV Sender’ erzählt hat, war ehrlich gesagt auch nicht sehr inspirierend…) Es geht immer wieder um Konsumenten und Konsumverhalten, Hilfe für Projekte, die [...]
October 29th 2008, the Guardian writes: The world is heading for an “ecological credit crunch” far worse than the current financial crisis because humans are over-using the natural resources of the planet, an international study warns today. The Living Planet report calculates that humans are using 30% more resources than the Earth can replenish each [...]
