June 2008 willow update
New developments in the ongoing willow wars. Both bad and good news stories about efforts to get sane management of streamsides in central Victoria.
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New Future Scenarios website
Future Scenarios (www.futurescenarios.org) explores David Holmgren's futurism and scenario planning work for an era of peak oil and climate change.
“Many futurists are looking at Facebook, robot pets and other i-fads, whereas David has been studying a much bigger picture. He draws on 30 years of permaculture thinking to address the fundamental resource and environmental constraints facing humanity. I think he is the most important futurist in the world right now,” said Adam Grubb founder of Energy Bulletin (www.energybulletin.net with over 400,000 visitors a month.)
New Relocalisation DVD: How Peak Oil can lead to Permaculture
In this DVD David Holmgren explains permaculture as a design system to relocalise or economies and communities in the face of the twin threats of Peak Oil and Climate Change. More...
Permaculture Principles website
A new website that provides easy access to the permaculture ethics and design principles with clean graphics and simple explanations by permaculture graphic design professional Richard Telford
Essence of Permaculture – free eBook
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Advanced Permaculture Principles &
Planning Tools course
with
David Holmgren
for the first time on home territory,
Hepburn Springs
David, Declan Kennedy, Jasha Rohr and other participants in Advanced Principles course Gudhorst, Germany
July 2005
July 10th-13th
CAPE
(Cuba - Australia Permaculture Exchange)
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Roberto Perez works as a permaculture and environmental educator for the Foundation for Nature and Humanity, Cuba’s major environment organization based in Havana. He featured in the award-winning documentary film The Power of Community about how Cubans survived and thrived during the fuel and food crisis of the early 1990’s. He is spending 2 months touring Australia sharing the Cuban experience through public presentations, national and regional conferences. News of the visit is generating a phenomenal response nationally.
David Holmgren and his partner Su Dennett worked closely with Roberto Perez during their teaching and public speaking tour of Latin America last year. They have been involved in organising the local event because they know Roberto is an inspiring and articulate public speaker and that the Cuban experience is one of the few positive examples of how society might creatively adapt the to the now inevitiable severe and imminent impacts of Peak Oil and Climate Change.
Download pdf Flier of the Daylesford Event
See the CAPE Website for National tour info.
The passing of a Permaculture elder
Joe Polaischer was the creator, with partner Trish Allen, of New Zealand permaculture icon, Rainbow Valley Farm. He died on the 14th Febuary 2008 from a brain tumor. Joe was also one of the most experienced and influential teachers of permaculture, not only in New Zealand but also in Europe and Japan.
Joe's death is a great loss to the global permaculture community but his legacy will continue to fuel positive action into the future.
Joe explaining permaculture concepts to tour participants at Rainbow Valley Farm Feb 2004
Read Joe's obituary by David Holmgren and see further photos and links