Permaculture Taking Off in Hawaii

SUBHEAD: Reawakening an appreciation for traditional systems and adding in modern permaculture techniques.By Craig Mackintosh on 28 March 2011 in Peraculture RI -(http://permaculture.org.au/2011/03/28/permaculture-taking-off-in-hawaii)Image above: Setting up a permaculture garden on the Big Island. From (http://permaculturehi.wordpress.com/2010/06/10/

Wa`a Moloka`i

SUBHEAD: The Permaculture Research Institute will conduct courses on Molokai to achieve food security through restoration of ahupuaa systems.By Nichole Ross on 9 March 2011 in Permaculture RI - (http://permaculture.org.au/2011/03/09/waa-molokai-island-sized-food-security-through-a-21st-century-living-canoe)Image above: Partial ahupuaa map of Molokai by Juan Wilson for WesPac. From (https://

UN is Getting Into Permaculture

SUBHEAD: Putting more trees on farms is fundamental to the future agricultural development.By Paul Stapleton on 9 February 2011 in EureakAlert! - (http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-02/wac-pto020911.php)Image above: A tropical agroforestry tree nursery. From (http://www.forestnursery.com/).Trees growing on farms will be essential to future development. As the number of trees in forests

Food Security & Food Culture

SUBHEAD: The ‘fast food culture’ of modern society has distanced most of us from a richness of experience.By Matty Lynch on 1 February 2011 in Permaculture Media - (http://permaculture-media-download.blogspot.com/2011/02/food-security-and-food-culture-by-matty.html)Image above: Detail of promotional poster for Morgan Spurlock's movie "Supersize Me". From (http://www.legendarystrength.com/

Post Peak Oil Bee Keeping

SUBHEAD: Bees can be beneficially added to any system, improving pollination of crops and yielding concentrated storable sugar.By David Holmgren on 26 January 2011 in Holmgren Design Services - (http://www.holmgren.com.au/frameset.html?http://www.holmgren.com.au/html/Writings/Writings.html)Image above: Beekeeping on Kauai. From (http://kauaibuzz.blogspot.com/2010/12/

Permaculture as a Venture

SUBHEAD: We're into helping people to become responsible and effective Permaculturists. Grow your food. Pay your own way.By Chuck Burr on 8 November 2010 in SOPI Permaculture - (http://www.sopermaculture.org/SOPI/Blog/Entries/2010/11/8_Mark_Shepard%E2%80%99s_106_Acre_Permaculture_Farm_in_Viola,_Wisconsin.html)Image above: Example of animal and plants in permaculture setting. From (http://

KIUC Wailua Dam Plans

SUBHEAD: Small scale slowing the flow of water is a virtue. Large scale hydroelectric dams on Kauai are abominations.By Juan Wilson on 17 January 2011 - Image above: Damming a rocky stream as example of rain harvesting. From (http://www.harvestingrainwater.com/imagesvideoaudio/image-gallery/assortment-of-water-harvesting-images).According to the philosophy of permaculture, slowing the flow of

Cool food, fuel and climate

SUBHEAD: Permaculture seems to be indispensable for anyone trying to bring about broadscale collapse-proofing.By Albert Bates on 8 January 2011 in The Great Change - (http://peaksurfer.blogspot.com/2011/01/cool-food-cool-fuel-cool-climate.html)Image above:Plenty Belize and Maya Mountain Research Farm workshop on photovoltaic electric-generating systems. From (http://www.plenty.org/pb25_1/

Three Life Saving Books

SUBHEAD: These books will help making a livable future even as the civilization we have known crumbles around us.Image above: Permaculture garden from "Heroes of the Environment"film series (http://www.humanisthall.net/Cal-Nov09-FilmSeries.html). By George Mobus on 21 November 2010 in Question Everything -(http://questioneverything.typepad.com/question_everything/2010/11/

Bill Mollison on Permaculture

SUBHEAD: We must borrow the land and create the future. We can’t afford systems of yesterday. It’s critical we take them out.Image above: Planting an apple guild in Cananda. From (http://forestsinternational.org/2010/05/2010-food-forest-gardening-workshop).Interview by Richard Alan Miller in 1986 in Permaculture -(http://permaculture.org.au/2010/11/11/