Writings
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 submitted to the council in October 2011.
Available for download is David Holmgren’s essay “Retrofitting the suburbs for sustainability”, which was adapted from a public lecture given at the Aldinga Arts Eco-village in Adelaide in January 2005.
My aim in this essay is to focus on the critical importance of using all our physical, emotional and intellectual resources towards maintaining connections across what could be a widening gulf of frustration and distrust within our movement, reflecting society at large. I want to explore how permaculture ethics and design principles can help us empathetically bridge that gulf without needing to censor our truth or simply avoid the issues.
Permaculture is different everywhere, it’s only really the ethics of care of the earth, care of people, and fair share and the design principles which are the universal parts of permaculture.
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