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Vale Ross Mars: Persistent Permaculture
November 14 2023
Dictator Dave’s National Water Plan, and more modest musings
September 14 2023
Phil Gall: Permaculture Pioneer
May 16 2023
Covid through a permaculture lens
April 18 2023
Is wood smoke the new evil?
March 7 2023
Fusion Futures
January 12 2023
Flood Landscapes Revisited October 2022
October 25 2022
Remembering Dan Palmer
August 11 2022
A review of three books: Futuresteading, The Good Life…
December 7 2021
Protesting Permaculture: the last five weeks and the last…
November 27 2021
Autonomy and Solidarity in a Covid mad world
November 25 2021
Pandemic Brooding: Brown Tech in New Clothing
October 1 2021
Pandemic Brooding: Can the Permaculture movement survive the first…
September 11 2021
The Politics of Permaculture by Terry Leahy
August 22 2021
How Everything Can Collapse: A Manual for Our Times
February 9 2021
The Problem is the Solution: but solutions can turn…
January 24 2021
That Mulberry Tree
November 3 2020
Stephen emails David: a collaboration
October 20 2020
RetroSuburbia Roadmap
September 24 2020
RetroSuburbia, Energy Descent, Degrowth and TEQs
September 8 2020
The Class Divide in a Time of Pandemic: a…
May 12 2020
RetroSuburbia Bushfire Resilience Extract
February 13 2020
Bushfire Resilient Land and Climate Care
February 4 2020
Reflections on fire – February 2019
February 21 2019
The wind where the willows were
January 15 2019
RetroSuburbia Rollout
November 6 2018
Degrowth in the Suburbs: A Radical Urban Imaginary
October 25 2018
Foreword to Degrowth in the Suburbs: A Radical Urban…
October 25 2018
Permaculture, Collected Writings and Julian Assange
August 30 2018
Is David Holmgren on Facebook?
June 21 2018
David reviews Heartwood by Rowan Reid
May 8 2018
The Melbourne Model
April 23 2018
Feeding RetroSuburbia
September 24 2017
Vale Rod May
May 30 2017
Vale Toby Hemenway
December 23 2016
A Short Personal and Global History of Retrofitting the…
November 8 2016
A History from the Future
September 2 2016
Beyond the WAR on invasive species
August 11 2015
Vale Vries Gravestein
October 30 2014
Permaculture Activism and the Future
October 24 2014
Reverence for the bunya bunya
May 19 2014
Food for thought, security and sovereignty
March 29 2014
Crash on Demand: interviews and a summary
February 10 2014
Crash on Demand, the discussion so far
February 6 2014
Crash on Demand: Welcome to the Brown Tech Future
December 12 2013
Bushfire from a permaculture perspective
October 22 2013
Vale Errol Mutch
October 16 2013
Permaculture Pocket Knives
October 2 2013
Monet’s Garden at Melliodora
August 11 2013
Household economy counts (full text)
August 2 2013
Retrofitting the suburbs for Sustainability
June 24 2013
Why I haven’t been flying (much)
May 16 2013
A chance meeting
January 22 2012
Personal Histories
January 15 2012
An Energy Descent Action Plan
October 26 2011
More Writings
Is wood smoke the new evil?
David Holmgren
March 7 2023
You can listen to David reading this piece here: Is wood smoke as bad as George Monbiot claims? In a recent article published in The Guardian, George Monbiot admitted his shame at having installed wood stoves, as part of a home energy efficiency retrofit back in 2008. Beyond his shift from thinking wood heating
Compost toilets and Permaculture design principles
David Holmgren
September 1 2003
This brief piece was written in September 2003 as a contribution to a book (in French) by Christophe Elain, “Un petit coin pour soulager la planète: Toilettes sèches et histoires d’eau”, published 2005 by Goutte de Sable. Full text available for download.
That Mulberry Tree
David Holmgren
November 3 2020
Amongst all the beautiful images of the 2021 Permaculture Principles calendar, is a stunning aerial shot of a mudbrick house and lush green tree amongst the devastation of bushfires on the south coast of NSW.
