Available for download is David Holmgren's essay "Weeds or wild nature?", originally published in the Permaculture International Journal in 1997, Issue 61. It provides an indication of the ideas which...
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Upper Spring Creek restoration project management report
Available for download is David Holmgren's report "Upper Spring Creek Restoration Project Management Plan", written for the Daylesford Regional Landcare Group (July 2001).
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Biomass fuels from sustainable land use: A Permaculture perspective
Available for download is David Holmgren's essay "Biomass fuels from sustainable land use: A Permaculture perspective", published in the 'Solar Progress' Magazine in November of 2003
Read MorePermaculture co-founder steps into limelight
This interview by ABC radio's Landline program by Tim Lee was first published 28/03/2004. It features Rod May, an organic farmer and the former mayor of Hepburn, Ted Lefroy of...
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Invasion Biology: Critique of a pseudoscience
Available for download is David Holmgren's review of David I. Theodoropoulos' book "Invasion Biology: Critique of A Pseudoscience", which addresses programmatic ideology regarding nativist ecology.
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Firewood: Sustainable and appropriate energy source
Full text download for David Holmgren's essay "Firewood: Sustainable and appropriate energy source", originally published in Renew Magazine Issue 90, January 2005, published by the Alternative Technology Association.
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Garden Agriculture: A revolution in efficient water use
First published as an (edited) opinion piece in Water Volume 32, No. 8 in December 2005, 'Garden Agriculture: A revolution in efficient water use' by David Holmgren discusses food futures...
Read MoreAll about Permaculture, interview on Farm Radio – delete – interview no longer exists
Interview with David Holmgren via the Farm Radio website. Please note: you need to pay to listen to this interview.
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Bushfire Resilient Communities and Landscapes
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...
Read MoreBushfire 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
David Holmgren explaining a low cost technique for revegetation of eroded gullies without heavy machinery or chemicals. The technique turns thick, fire-prone blackberry cover into useful fire-resistant trees on what...
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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...
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Bee keeping for the energy descent future
From a permaculture perspective, bees can be beneficially added to any system, improving pollination of crops, yielding storable sugars, pollen, beeswax, and other minor yields, all without detracting from any...
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Press Release: Urgent need to recreate flood resilient rivers and floodplains
The recent floods in eastern Australia highlight the power of water to destroy. Pioneering Australian ecological designer and co-originator of the permaculture design system, David Holmgren is calling on governments...
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Weeds or Wild Nature: A Permaculture Perspective
Full text of Weeds or Wild Nature: A Permaculture Perspective, presented as part of a series of seminars on "Contentious Perspectives on Weeds" at the 45th Annual General Meeting of...
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...
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An Energy Descent Action Plan
Teamed with the experienced permaculture teacher and author Ian Lillington, David Holmgren put together an Energy Descent Action Planning document for his local shire of Hepburn. The final report was...
Read MoreMelliodora videocast: a Permaculture classic by J. Russell Smith
In its first instalment for the regular Permaculture Classics videocast series from Melliodora, David Holmgren talks about J.Russell Smith's Tree Crops: a permanent agriculture.
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Household economy counts (full text)
Andy Scerri’s critique of Patrick Jones’ articulation of self-reliance, localism, and gift economies (Arena #115) is a familiar argument that has been used over the last thirty years to dismiss...
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2024 Venie Prize winner
MegU August 27 2024
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
MegU August 13 2024
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
MegU July 11 2024
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