You can listen to the interview David did for the By Design program on Australia’s ABC Radio National
You can listen to the interview David did for the By Design program on Australia’s ABC Radio National
David was recently interviewed on the Partisan Gardens podcast. As they wrote on their website: “In this episode, we discuss the crises we all face, what it means to write from a specific place, the power of speculative fiction for imagining alternative futures, and concrete visions for transforming suburbia. This is a deeply terrestrial proposal, based on practical experiences in Australia, and which will develop via widespread experimentation, playing with patterns, and hacking suburban forms. Holmgren speaks generously as a fellow practitioner and designer, not a policy maker with ready-made solutions applicable globally. We are pleased to offer some of the prompts and visions he shared with us for experimenting in suburbia.”
Are agriculture and biodiversity always at odds? In the late 1970s, a radical environmental movement rejected this dichotomy — rebuking conventional farming in favour of holistic & mutualistic principles, with the dual promise of plentiful food and a vibrant ecosystem.
When Permaculture was first articulated, it emerged from a simple question: why don’t our food systems look more like forests? In the tropics, traditional Indigenous agriculture integrated perennial foods crops so densely that their gardens had often been mistaken for jungle.
Inspired by these techniques, permaculturists adapted forest gardening for the temperate world. But, in their enthusiasm, they too may have been missing the forest for the trees.
David Holmgren was recently interviewed on Podsongs, a podcast where Jack Stafford (and other musicians) interview inspirational people, in service to others, as inspiration for a brand new song.
Traditional agriculture was labour intensive, industrial agriculture is energy intensive, and permaculture-designed systems are information and design intensive.
~ David Holmgren, Permaculture Co-originator
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