David Holmgren:
Collected Writings & Presentations 1978 to 2006
New updated and expanded 2nd edition
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Collected Writing (2nd Edition) 1978-2006 Contents
1. Permaculture: Design for Cultivating Ecosystems (1978)
2. Impressions of New Zealand (1979)
3. An Eclectic Approach to the Skills of Reading Landscape and their Application to Permaculture Consultancy (1984)
4. Response to Draft Preliminary Discussion Paper on the Biomass Potential Study of Victoria 1985 (1985)
5. Aboriginal Land Use (1990-92)
6. Submission in Response to a Review of Rural Land Use in Victoria (1991)
7. Historical Precedents for Permaculture (1991)
8. Gardening as Agriculture (1991)
9. Natural Gardening and Intensive Biological Gardening: Strategies for Sustainable Garden Agriculture (1991)
10. Whole Farm and Landscape Planning (1992)
11. Development of the Permaculture Concept (1992)
12. Lawns, Mowing and Mulch in Permaculture (1993)
13. Creating a History of the Australian Search for Sustainable Land Use (1993)
14. The Permaculture Movement and Education: Searching for Ways Forward (1993)
15. Development Aid for the Industrialised North: Turning an Idea on its Head or The Problem is the Solution (1994)
16. Impressions of Israel: A Permaculture Perspective (1994)
17. Wombat Forest Submission (1995)
18. The Landcare Movement - Community Based Design and Action on a Scale to Match the Continent (1995)
19. Hemp as a Wood Paper Pulp Substitute: Environmental Solution or Diversion from Sustainable Forestry? (1996)
20. The Role of Native Vegetation in Back Yard Permaculture (1996)
21. Permaculture and Revegetation: Conflict or Synthesis (1996)
22. Inquiry into Pest Plants in Victoria (1996)
23. Starting a Community: Some Early Lessons from Fryers Forest (1997)
24. Energy and Emergy: Revaluing Our World (1997)
25. Permaculture: Thinking and Acting for Sustainability (1998)
26. Do Media Technologies Scramble Young Minds? (1998)
27. Why Natural Landscapes Catch and Store Water, Nutrients and Carbon (1999)
28. Tribal Conflict: Proven Pattern, Dysfunctional Inheritance (1999)
29. The Counter Culture as Dynamic Margin (2000)
30. The Origins of Permaculture at the Edge (2002)
31. Need for Focus on Regrowth (2002)
32. What is Sustainability? (2003)
33. Do We Need Nature? (2003)
34. Biomass Fuels from Sustainable Land Use: A Permaculture Perspective (2003)
35. Essence of Permaculture (2002/2004)
36. Permaculture in Japan: Foreign Idea or Indigenous Design? (2004)
37. Invasion Biology: Critique of a Pseudoscience - Book Review (2004)
38. Retrofitting the Suburbs for Sustainability (2005) Video Interview(Mac or PC), Presentation (PDF)
39. Firewood: Sustainable and Appropriate Energy Source (2005)
40. Permaculture: Do We Need Principles? (2003/2005)
41. Permaculture: Design Framework for Organic Agriculture in the Energy Descent Era (2005) Presentation (PDF)
42. Permaculture as Relocalisation (2005)
43. Environmental Visionary Challenges Landcare (2006)
44. Sawmills in the Energy Descent Future (2006)
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This collection of magazine articles, conference papers, public lectures, book reviews and presentations provides source material on the origins, influences, applications and evolution of the Permaculture concept from its younger co-originator. Together they provide an historical record of the work of one of Australia's most influential environmental thinkers.
They will be of particular interest to permaculture teachers and practitioners and provide background material referenced in Permaculture:Principles and Pathways Beyond Sustainability, David Holmgren's major work on permaculture ethics and design principles.
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A few of the articles are also downloadable (in screen readable format only) from the Collected Writings First Edition page and the Writings page. In making these articles freely available, the author asks that those seeking to pass them on to others do so by referring others to this website rather than reproducing them. Permission for reproduction in magazines and other publications should be sought from the author.
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Contents
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Articles One through to Forty Four - see full list below
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Photographic Archive
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References
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Catalogue
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Future of Suburbia video interview - approx. 7 minutes
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Retrofitting the Suburbs: Permaculture Design for the Energy Decent Future - Powerpoint
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Presentation as PDF
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Permaculture: Design Framework for Organic Agriculture in the Energy Decent Era -
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Powerpoint Presentation as PDF