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Fusion Futures
January 12 2023
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November 3 2020
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September 24 2020
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November 6 2018
The Melbourne Model
April 23 2018
Feeding RetroSuburbia
September 24 2017
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May 30 2017
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December 23 2016
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October 16 2013
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January 22 2012
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January 15 2012

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

In the early years of promoting permaculture to food gardeners, Bill Mollison used to quip, “you don’t have a snail problem, you have a duck deficiency”. Mollison’s penchant for changing the perspective on a known problem, and identifying how it might represent an unacknowledged resource, reflects ecological thinking: identifying empty niches that can be filled to make gardens or any other (eco)system more resilient and productive. Often the perceived problem can be interpreted as a message from nature – nature’s first step in correcting imbalances.

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