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Bushfire Resilient Communities and Landscapes
Available for download is the Hepburn Bushfire Plan, a 52 page discussion paper focused on David’s home community of Daylesford and Hepburn where it is already influencing community and local government action.
Vale Vries Gravestein
As I have been working alone in the garden over these last few days I have been thinking about Vries Gravestein as an elder of the Australian permaculture movement at the same time that the nation is reflecting on the passing of another big man, Gough Whitlam. While comparisons between the two might be trite, in my garden solitude the emotions about the passing of influential elders did blend.
Beyond the family I have met and worked with so many of Vries’ students, most notably John Champagne who has played such a critical role in embedding permaculture in this bio-regional community and in maintaining the bonds of the national permaculture family.
Firewood: Sustainable and appropriate energy source
Full text download for David Holmgren’s essay “Firewood: Sustainable and appropriate energy source”, originally published in Renew Magazine Issue 90, January 2005, published by the Alternative Technology Association.