Plenary Session addressing Students of Sustainability Conference, Flinders University Adelaide 14th July 2003.
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Plenary Session addressing Students of Sustainability Conference, Flinders University Adelaide 14th July 2003.
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Food insecurity also shows up in affluent countries in many surprising ways. In Australia declining backyard food production since the 1960s and the loss of community, reduced the opportunities for barter and social insurance from non-monetary exchange. In the decades since, increasing apartment living and smaller backyards has reduced the capacity for household food production. Download the full text here.

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 in February 2018. The production and availability of this extract as a free and sharable download is part of our response the Australian bushfire crisis of summer 2019/20.

In the global forest of permaculture and kindred networks, a giant has fallen. Dan Palmer is dead. Rather than old growth, he was in his prime at 47 with deep roots and spreading canopy.
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