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Topic: Permaculture living

Compost toilets and Permaculture design principles

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...

Permaculture 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...

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...

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...

National Permaculture Day

This short video is of the National Permaculture Day celebrations in Daylesford on 30 April, hosted by the Daylesford Community Food Gardeners (DCFG) and the Hepburn Relocalisation Network (HRN), with...

Strategies for transition

Available to watch on vimeo.com is David Holmgren's interview with Luke Miller Callahan for GroAction.

Retrofitting the Suburbs for Sustainability (presentation)

David Holmgren gave a Lunchbox/Soapbox talk at the The Wheeler Centre in February 2012, exploring the profound improvements that the application of permaculture principles and strategies could deliver for the...

Why I haven’t been flying (much)

Over three decades I have received many requests to travel across Australia and across the world to speak at a conference, teach a course or participate in some worthy event...

Retrofitting the suburbs for Sustainability

Here, you can download and read the full text of David Holmgren's Retrofitting the Suburbs.

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...

Monet’s Garden at Melliodora

An invitation to be a "pop up speaker" at the NGV's Monet's Garden Exhibition gave me an opportunity to address this vexed role of aesthetics in permaculture, in a very special...

Permaculture Pocket Knives

In April 2012 I penned an essay, Permaculture Pocket Knives, to explore the issue but it sat unpublished until now. I offer it here as providing an insight into permaculture...

Bushfire (Wildfire) from a permaculture perspective

In the wake of the bushfires in 2013, David Holgren discusses bushfire management from a permaculture perspective.

Reverence for the bunya bunya

David Holmgren has written Reverence for the bunya bunya: A seasonal retrospective from Melliodora, dedicated to the memory of Peter Brew.

Vale Vries Gravestein

As I have been working alone in the garden over these last few days I have been thinking about Vries Gravestein as an elder of the Australian permaculture movement at...

Great debate, the video

David Holmgren's talk for Great Debate at the Sustainable Living Festival in Melbourne, 2015. Holmgren's opening remarks and the full debate are available to watch on Youtube and Vimeo.

A Short Personal and Global History of Retrofitting the Suburbs

My childhood and adolescent years in suburban Bicton (between Fremantle and Perth WA) were set against a backdrop of Swan River estuary beaches, swamps, cliffs and caves. Many summer nights...

Feeding RetroSuburbia

Food and where it comes from is an ongoing theme in RetroSuburbia. This essay extends on the discussions in Chapter 29, Sustainable and sustaining diet, and the further information given...

Reflections 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...

RetroSuburbia 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...

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: