After four years in the making, RetroSuburbia is finally out there in the world. Weighing in at 1.8kg and 592 full colour pages, she is an absolute beauty, and the whole team here couldn’t be prouder. In fact, we are excited beyond words.
Here are some photos from Saturday’s book launch at the National Sustainable Living Festival at Birrarung Marr in Melbourne.
Thank you to Peter O’Mara for MCing the event, to Costa for launching it, to Formidable Vegetable Sound System for getting us up and dancing, and to Oliver Holmgren for these beautiful photographs:
For those who missed it or want to re-live this momentous event in permie history, here is the full recording which is divided into 3 parts. Thanks to Greg Noy for the footage:
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The day after the launch, David was busy again, this time on a panel entitled Transforming the Suburbs.
The speakers were:
David Holmgren – Permaculture co-originator
Costa Georgiadis – Gardening Australia, ABC TV
Dominique Hes – Melbourne University
Michael Ableman – Sole Food Street Farms, Canada
Kat Lavers – Permaculture practitioner
The event was MC’d by Nick Ritar from Milkwood Permaculture.
The expert panel creatively explored sustainable actions, key strategies and resilience-based concepts for future suburban responses to localised and global ecological challenges. The audience was provided expert analysis and thought-provoking ideas on how suburbia will be a vital place to survive and thrive in challenging futures. The discussion centred on ideas that positively contribute towards low-energy and carbon positive sustainable home and community living and how we can all make a shift towards creatively adapting to a more sustainable way of living.
The panel was recorded by ABC Big Ideas. You can listen here.
Photos by Oliver Holmgren.
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Don’t have your copy of the book yet? Head on over to www.retrosuburbia.com to order your copy today!
2 thoughts on “RetroSuburbia: out in the world”
As I flip through this tome I feel so deeply excited at how much high-quality information is shared so accessibly. Even my seven-year-old happily flicked through it on the train-ride home from the fantastic launch. May that it fly (or hitch hike, bike ride catch a train as the case may be) far and wide!
And David Holmgren will be a keynote speaker at the 14th Australasian Permaculture Convergence (APC14) to be held in Canberra with tours and courses following across Southern NSW from 15 – 19 April 2018.
More info at https://apc14.permacultureaustralia.org.au/