Presentations on DVDs

Permaculture: Reclaiming Our Place In Nature
DVD was recorded as part of the Radiance program of talks and workshops over the six days of 03/04 Woodford Folk Festival organised by Sunshine Coast organic entrepreneur Graeme Sait of Nutri-tech Solutions

In this 80 minute presentation David Holmgren gives an empowering and inclusive understanding of permaculture as a multi-faceted design response to environmental and social crisis.

Compatibility: Apple OS9, Windows PC, Most PAL DVD players.

Permaculture Design Principles
DVD was recorded as part of the Radiance program of talks and workshops over the six days of 03/04 Woodford Folk Festival organised by Sunshine Coast organic entrepreneur Graeme Sait of Nutri-tech Solutions

In this 97 minute presentation David Holmgren outlines the permaculture ethics and design principles using the format from his foundation text Permaculture: Principles & Pathways Beyond Sustainability.

Compatibility: Apple OS9, Windows PC, Most PAL DVD players.

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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.

David has given this Powerpoint presentation in various forms and lengths over the last few years around Australia, New Zealand and Latin America on courses and public events with audiences from less than 50 to more than 500.

In part I, David outlines the history of permaculture as a design concept and a global environmental movement in the context of the emerging energy descent brought on by the peaking and decline of global oil supply and the whole spectrum of environmental, economic and social crises.

Relocalisation of our economies and communities is highlighted as the central organising strategy for creative grass roots adaptive response to the energy descent future, both to build resilience and capacity in the face of unprecedented threats, and grasp the creative opportunities from energy descent.

In part II, David uses his photos of examples of the diversity of permaculture design solutions from his own property Melliodora as well as the wider world of permaculture to show the scope and depth of permaculture design in the home, garden, farm, forest, community and ecomomy. The "permaculture flower" is used to bring these diverse examples together. David ends with the imperatives for relocalisation and an inspiring example of how permaculture activism has led to relocalisation.

The DVD includes introductions by Christine Carroll of Permaculture Noosa and Dr Anne Miller of the University of the Sunshine Coast Queensland as well as an extended Q & A session with the audience of over 120 in August 2006.

Compatibility: OSX, OS9, Windows PC, Most PAL DVD players.