Available for download is the Hepburn Bushfire Plan, a 52 page discussion paper focused on David's home community of Daylesford and Hepburn where it is already influencing community and local...
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Topic: Bushfire
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...
Read MoreEroded gully revegetation, Spring Creek Gully
Available to watch in full on Youtube, David Holmgren explains a low cost technique for revegetating eroded gullies without heavy machinery or chemicals. The technique turns thick, fire-prone blackberry cover...
Read MoreBushfire resilient landscapes and communities (presentation in Blue Mountains)
David Holmgren gives a public talk on creating bushfire resilient communities and landscapes, organised by Pat Rayner of Permaculture Blue Mountains. Thanks to Gary Caganoff for the videos, which are...
Read MoreBushfire resilient landscapes and communities
David Holmgren gives a public talk on creating bushfire resilient communities and landscapes, organised by Pat Rayner of Permaculture Blue Mountains. Thanks to Gary Caganoff for the videos, which are...
Read MoreBushfire (Wildfire) from a permaculture perspective
In the wake of the bushfires in 2013, David Holgren discusses bushfire management from a permaculture perspective.
Read MoreReflections on fire – February 2019
From the research for Permaculture One in the 1970s in the house Bill Mollison saved from the great 1967 fires, to the research for the Flywire House project in the...
Read MoreBushfire Resilient Land and Climate Care
Fire is an intrinsic part of the Australian landscape. It has become more destructive since European colonisation, and over recent decades, we have experienced even greater destruction due to accelerating...
Read MoreRetroSuburbia Bushfire Resilience Extract
This is an extract from my book RetroSuburbia: the downshifter's guide to a resilient future, a 550 page richly illustrated manual that has become a best seller since its publication...
Read MoreThat Mulberry Tree
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...
Read MoreBushfire (Wildfire) Resilient Landscapes and Communities: Istanbul Permaculture Collective
In this video David Holmgren presents his paper, Bushfire Resilient Landscapes and Communities, to the Istanbul Permaculture Collective.
Read MoreEssential Bushfire (Wildfire) Safety Tips Webinar with Joan Webster OAM and David Holmgren
On Saturday March 12, Javan K. Bernakevitch hosted an online discussion with Joan Webster OAM and David Holmgren about bushfire preparedness and safety. The discussion was open to the public...
Read MoreVale Joan Webster OAM
How much can one person achieve in a lifetime? Without an army of followers and assistants to help, any contribution or dent in the larger society and environment will surely...
Read MoreSaving Warners Track: Jackeys Marsh Forest Festival Aftermath 1983
Listen to David reading this piece: Heritage restored Warners Track in Tasmania was built by farming pioneers in the 1890s in the Meander locality of northern Tasmania to provide access...
Read MoreThe Los Angeles fires: climate emergency, public policy and community preparedness failures
Are the Los Angeles fires a result of the climate emergency, public policy or community unpreparedness? Possibly all three. From my research over decades, living in one of the most...
Read MorePart Three: Fire, Water, Trees & Houses
David Holmgren talks about the Ash Wednesday fires, home based lifestyles and the second wave of environmentalism
Read MorePart Twelve: Bushfire, Covid and Disaster Capitalism
A lifelong dissident, David Holmgren sees bureaucracy as a huge roadblock to achieving grounded climate solutions.
Read MoreFire in Our Hearts – Report Introduction
This report was confidential feedback I gave to the organisers of a gathering in the Northern Rivers region of NSW that I was paid to contribute to “as an outside...
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2024 Venie Prize winner
Congratulations to Isabella G. Mead for writing the winning poem of the 2024 Venie Holmgren Environmental Poetry Prize, Melt Ice. Here is what judge Tim Loveday had to say about the poem: Melt Ice is a work that speaks back to our colonial inheritance with an acute and painful awareness of how our complicity as

Melbourne Documentary Film Festival Wrap Up
Many thanks to all those who attended the screening of Reading Landscape with David Holmgren at Melbourne’s Cinema Nova as part of the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival. Here are some snaps of the night:

We Need to Protect Prime Farm Land on the Edge of Daylesford
This letter by David Holmgren, first appeared in The Wombat Post. I would like to add my voice to the need to protect the prime farm land on the edge of Daylesford that is currently the focus of proposed rezoning for residential development in East St. The farmland land on volcanic soils to the













