During my doctoral research I got to know William Buckley pretty well. As I was scouring material on him a friend, Maya Ward , recommended ...

Edible forest gardener and permaculturalist, Dave Jacke , came to Daylesford for a brief talk last Wednesday while touring the country givin...

How permaculture and non-monetary economies are part of the solution to the problem of capitalism. Feature article by Patrick Jones in Aren...

Hepburn Relocalisation Network and Sustainable Hepburn Association ( SHARE ) last night hosted Canadian speaker Nicole Foss . A theorist an...

Daylesford Community Food Gardeners had a big day yesterday of multiple events to do with transition, gardening, music and global ecologica...

I've been at an advanced permaculture course with David Holmgren and today we unpacked, critiqued and revalued his 12 principles. Here...

I photographed this ridiculous wall sculpture at the Department of Primary Industries (DPI) in Melbourne a few weeks ago. I was there for a...

Click for bigger, then click again for better focus. Ecological pioneers: David Holmgren and Michael Reynolds at the Daylesford tip, 2011

There has been a rampant growth of nationalism in Australia over the past few decades, following America's "we are the greatest dem...

According to David Holmgren , co-originator of modern permaculture, history has revelled in humanism while remaining largely ignorant of ene...

I've been reading John Michael Greer 's The Long Descent, and have found it an extremely useful text in understanding political and ...

It's been two years since Meg and I watched one of the darkest films of our lives, The World According to Monsanto. This brilliant and h...

As many of you know we're currently attempting to establish a quarter acre garden as a dynamic food forest. However, it's not only p...

There's so much to speak to today. Here's the local news: Firstly, my friend Josh, who I write about in the special bike issue of Gr...

Below is the title, introductory quote and first two paragraphs of my first substantial work since A Free-dragging Manifesto . It is soon to...