Monet’s garden NGV talks

By on June 17, 2013 in Events, News

The National Gallery of Victoria’s exhibition of the French impressionist Claude Monet’s iconic garden at Giverny continues till September 8. The exhibition itself is quite extraordinary but what is outstanding is its “Friday nights at Monet’s garden” program. Every friday evening, the guests are treated with “pop-up” talks, great food, drinks and live music. David Holmgren is [...]

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Spring Creek community forest page is up

By on June 17, 2013 in Ideas, News

Spring Creek Community Forest is the name we give to an informal project by local residents managing a section of public land (part of the Hepburn Regional Park) along Spring Creek between the Hepburn Mineral Springs Reserve and Breakneck Gorge. For over 25 years we have been active in initiating working bees constructing walking paths, [...]

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Think long and hard

By on May 30, 2013 in Ideas

David’s most recent interview with Dario Ruggiero is published on the Long Term Economy website. “We are going to see a serious challenge in the near future: the enormous amount of net energy that was available in the past (thanks to high quality fossil fuels), will no longer be available in the future. How to face this [...]

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Seed freedom and permaculture

By on May 30, 2013 in Ideas

David Holmgren agrees access to seeds is vitally important; “It’s an issue about who controls and owns the energy that fuels humans”. This is part of an interview conducted by Peter Charles Downey for United Natures, International Permaculture Day and Dr. Vandana Shiva’s Seed Freedom movement. The protest footage is from the Melbourne edition of the [...]

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Zen and the art of motor (re)cycling

By on May 23, 2013 in Links, News

It is quite challenging for us techo retarded office types to get through the day without consulting our tech support crew. From “download” problems, to missing photo files, a whole year of lost emails, and the odd misplaced invoice. When we get stuck, who will we call? In case you are wondering, the state of [...]

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Hot in Brazil

By on May 21, 2013 in News

Our Brazilian friend, ​Marcos Ninguém, reports that a special permaculture course run in celebration of 20 years of permaculture in Brazil, was a huge success, with some 170 participants. The celebration gathered together activists from the  pioneer generations such as Peter Webb and Skye (Australians), as well as new generation activists (Marcos himself, his brother Jappa, and Guilherme [...]

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Why I haven’t been flying (much)

By on May 16, 2013 in Ideas, Links

Over three decades I have received many requests to travel across Australia and across the world to speak at a conference,  teach a course or participate in some worthy event related to permaculture. My reluctance to travel long distances for short stays has meant I have had to turned down many of these invitations. In more [...]

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Holmgren to open United Natures at CERES

By on May 16, 2013 in Events

David Holmgren will open the premier screening of Peter Charles Downey’s new full length, full strength documentary film, United Natures at Melbourne’s CERES on June 13.  Along with David, the film features great international cast such as Dr. Vandana Shiva, Starhawk, Father Bob Maguire, Polly Higgins, Dr. Helen Caldicott, John Seed, Cormac Cullinan, Michael Reynolds and many others. Get [...]

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Insects as food

By on May 14, 2013 in Links

Su loves to see the reaction from tour participants as she explains the ingredients in her hot-out-of-the-oven cake served for either morning or afternoon tea; “Wheat, yes it’s commonly graded as chook wheat. Nothing wrong with it, just dusty, a bit of grit and odd insects. Good source of protein.” and thus the insects as romantic food [...]

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Pioneers donate to a worthy cause

By on May 7, 2013 in News

Melliodora Publishing, the publication wing of Holmgren Design, produced the book Permaculture Pioneers in 2011. The editors and authors of the book stipulated that the royalties due to them were to go to Permaculture Australia’s Permafund; we are happy to announce that nearly $3,000 has been sent to Permafund (the Permaculture International Public Fund) to promote and support Permaculture [...]

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International Permaculture Day message

By on May 5, 2013 in Ideas

Following is this year’s international permaculture day message from David Holmgren.

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