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Ideas and Actions

Writings

A collection of posts and downloadable articles by David.

Interviews

Interviews and messages in audio and video format, featuring David.

Presentations

A collection of presentations including powerpoint, video, text and pdf files to download.

2024

Writings

Saving Warners Track: Jackeys Marsh Forest Festival Aftermath 1983

Fresh Ways to Think About our Environment

A table of many stories

Where did all the wombats go?

Koalas: A Conservation Conundrum

Vale Joan Webster OAM

Shades of Green: Finding a middle path through the Forest

Interviews

Zero Input Agriculture podcast

nurture5 podcast with Bhavani

Healing with Confidence podcast

Are we f#ed? How to survive a climate Shit-Show podcast

Dustbowl Diatribes

Radio 2050 – Roots of Permaculture

Presentations

Permaculture Design for Positive Action with Matt Powers

IPC15 Taiwan keynote address

Reading Landscape conversation

Live Free Now Show with John Bush

2023

Writings

Vale Dave Griffiths: Central Victorian pioneer tree planter

Vale Ross Mars: Persistent Permaculture

Dictator Dave’s National Water Plan, and more modest musings

Phil Gall: Permaculture Pioneer

Covid through a permaculture lens

Genetically Engineered Armageddon: a tale of two realities

Is wood smoke the new evil?

Fusion Futures

Interviews

Rune Soup podcast

The Great Simplification Podcast with Nate Hagens

3CR – Local Food Connections

Presentations

Bushfire Resilient Design for Land & Climate Care – in Spanish

“Dan Palmer’s Legacy” by David Holmgren

David Holmgren discusses the evolution of his Future Scenarios thinking

David Holmgren – Permaculture stories celebrating floristic and fungal abundance

The role of permaculture in a Solar Punk future

2022

Writings

Flood Landscapes Revisited October 2022

Remembering Dan Palmer

Interviews

Homeless Romantic Podcast #47: David Holmgren | Godfather of Permaculture

Secrets of the Soil interview

Permaculture in German

Inhabit: Territories interview

Partisan Gardens podcast

David Holmgren on the Regenerative Skills podcast

From pandemic to war through a geo-ecological lens

Heinberg & Holmgren: the Limits to Growth report — 50 years on

Future Ecologies podcast

Presentations

Principios de diseño y herramientas de la Permacultura David Holmgren

David presents at Bendigo Library

The International Society for the Systems Sciences keynote address

Permacultura: Agricultura libre desde el patio trasero hasta la biorregión

Essential Bushfire (Wildfire) Safety Tips Webinar with Joan Webster OAM and David Holmgren

La permacultura per un mondo post-pandemico – Permaculture for a post-pandemic world

2021

Writings

A review of three books: Futuresteading, The Good Life and Costa’s World

Protesting Permaculture: the last five weeks and the last five decades

Autonomy and Solidarity in a Covid mad world

Pandemic Brooding: Brown Tech in New Clothing

Pandemic Brooding: Can the Permaculture movement survive the first severe test of the energy descent future?

The Politics of Permaculture by Terry Leahy

How Everything Can Collapse: A Manual for Our Times

The Problem is the Solution: but solutions can turn back into (the same old) problems

Interviews

David Holmgren on Ideapod

David Holmgren reflects on COP26 with Morag Gamble

Podsongs Interview

The Overview Effect with James Perrin

Presentations

Scaling Up Permaculture

RetroSuburbia Masterclass with David Holmgren

Bushfire (Wildfire) Resilient Landscapes and Communities: Istanbul Permaculture Collective

Aphorisms for Permaculture activists, APC10 Presentation

2020

Writings

That Mulberry Tree

Stephen emails David: a collaboration

RetroSuburbia Roadmap

RetroSuburbia, Energy Descent, Degrowth and TEQs

The Class Divide in a Time of Pandemic: a Permaculture Perspective

The Problem is the Solution: how permaculture-designed household isolation can lead to RetroSuburbia

RetroSuburbia Bushfire Resilience Extract

Bushfire Resilient Land and Climate Care

Interviews

Presentations

2019

Writings

The Apology: from baby boomers to the handicapped generations

Reflections on fire – February 2019

The wind where the willows were

Interviews

Next Economy Now interview

Presentations

2018

Writings

RetroSuburbia Rollout

Degrowth in the Suburbs: A Radical Urban Imaginary

Foreword to Degrowth in the Suburbs: A Radical Urban Imaginary

Permaculture, Collected Writings and Julian Assange

Is David Holmgren on Facebook?

David reviews Heartwood by Rowan Reid

The Melbourne Model

Interviews

Presentations

2017

Writings

Feeding RetroSuburbia

Vale Rod May

Futures framework for RetroSuburbia: limits to growth, energy futures and energy descent scenarios

Interviews

Presentations

2016

Writings

Vale Toby Hemenway

Keith Roby Memorial Lecture

A Short Personal and Global History of Retrofitting the Suburbs

A History from the Future

Interviews

Presentations

2015

Writings

Beyond the WAR on invasive species

Interviews

Tree crops on Earth Matters

Presentations

Permaculture activism in the Brown Tech Future

Great debate, the video

2014

Writings

Vale Vries Gravestein

Permaculture Activism and the Future

Reverence for the bunya bunya

Food for thought, security and sovereignty

Crash on Demand: interviews and a summary

Crash on Demand, the discussion so far

Interviews

Crash on Demand: radio interview (3)

Presentations

2013

Writings

Crash on Demand: Welcome to the Brown Tech Future

Bushfire (Wildfire) from a permaculture perspective

Vale Errol Mutch

Permaculture Pocket Knives

Monet’s Garden at Melliodora

Household economy counts (full text)

Retrofitting the suburbs for Sustainability

Why I haven’t been flying (much)

Interviews

Melliodora videocast: a Permaculture classic by J. Russell Smith

Thoughts on “Permaculture: A Rhymer’s Manual”

The Reverse of Globalisation

Presentations

2012

Writings

A chance meeting

Personal Histories

Interviews

Radio National interview: ‘By Design’

Presentations

Retrofitting the Suburbs for Sustainability (presentation)

2011

Writings

An Energy Descent Action Plan

Weeds or Wild Nature: A Permaculture Perspective

Press Release: Urgent need to recreate flood resilient rivers and floodplains

Bee keeping for the energy descent future

Interviews

Strategies for transition

The upcoming transition away from a fossil – fuel based society: David Holmgren talks strategy

Presentations

Bushfire resilient landscapes and communities

Bushfire resilient landscapes and communities (presentation in Blue Mountains)

National Permaculture Day

2010

Writings

Aphorisms for Permaculture activists, APC10

Money vs Fossil Energy: The battle for control of the world

Interviews

Eroded gully revegetation, Spring Creek Gully

Presentations

Future Scenarios presentation

Eroded gully revegetation, Spring Creek Gully

Bushfire resilient communities and landscapes presentation

2009

Writings

Bushfire Resilient Communities and Landscapes

Interviews

All about Permaculture, interview on Farm Radio – delete – interview no longer exists

Presentations

Vision is not seeing things as they are but how they will be.

~ David Holmgren, Permaculture Co-originator

Upcoming Events

Australia, Daylesford, Victoria

Venie Holmgren Environmental Poetry Prize

Major Prize: $1000

30th August 2026

In-person

Permaculture Tour at Melliodora

September 2026

Sunday

6th September 2026

Open for bookings

In-person

Permaculture Tour at Melliodora

October 2026

Sunday

4th October 2026

Bookings open one month prior to tour date.

Bees and Permaculture – A Natural Fit

Learn to keep bees naturally – without chemicals, without compromise

ONLINE course, with step-by-step guidance

Integrate bees naturally into your system

Live online Q&A support with Adrian Iodice

live online

Permaculture
Design Course

With David Holmgren,
Beck Lowe & Guests

4 Feb - 24 Jun 2027

Photo of screen zoom, with Online Participants

live online

Permaculture

Design Course

With David Holmgren, Beck Lowe & Guests

4 Feb - 24 Jun 2027

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