Collected Writings
An update to David’s comprehensive collection of essays, David Holmgren: collected writings & presentations is coming soon.
The definitive collection of permaculture related magazine articles, conference papers, public lectures, book reviews, presentations and other work by David Holmgren from 1978 up until 2006.
In the meantime, these are the essays mentioned in the Facsimile Edition of Permaculture One:
A Chance Meeting (2010)
Crash on Demand (2013)
The definitive collection of permaculture related magazine articles, conference papers, public lectures, book reviews, presentations and other work by David Holmgren from 1978 up until 2006.
Latest Writings
Vale Richard Heinberg (21.10.1950 – 19.7.2026)
It is with great sadness that I acknowledge the death of a man who has perhaps done more than anyone else to alert the world to the predicament of declining oil and other fossil fuels in the fate of industrial civilisation. Richard Heinberg, aged 75, succumbed to pancreatic cancer two weeks after diagnosis, no doubt
Part Sixteen: Returning to the Roots
In this final chapter of the climate series, David Holmgren asks us to accept uncertainty and be open to divergent approaches.
Part Fifteen: Collapsology, Disaster Capitalism, and Other Rabbit Holes
David believes that society needs radical transformation toward frugality and resilience- and solutions must come from grassroots sources, not governments
