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Weeds or Wild Nature? Armidale, NSW, June 2025
David Holmgren’s weeds or wild nature presentation and discussion starts with the premise that land design and management informed by permaculture principles tends to treat naturalised newcomer plants as assets that stabilise water and soil, build biomass, fix nutrients, ameliorate microclimate and provide habitat, fodder, fuel and food. While naturalised species may be given
Bushfire resilient communities and landscapes presentation
Climate change and peak oil demand we change our behaviour, organise our households and reshape our communities and landscapes for greater self reliance and resilience. The threat of bushfire provides the immediate context for application of these changes that will be more effective and empowering than top down centralised responses to disaster management. With this presentation David Holmgren shows how the permaculture strategies of self reliance and resilience make our communities and landscapes safer and more productive. Presentation available to watch, discussion paper available for download.
David Holmgren discusses the evolution of his Future Scenarios thinking
In this video, David Holmgren gives an online presentation to 250 first year architecture students at EPFL (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne) where he discusses his scenario thinking and its evolution since he published ‘Future Scenarios’ in 2009. The presentation took place within the Theory and History of the Environment course.
