For those of you with chooks or interested in keeping them, there is a great newsletter that you can subscribe to at the following site. The newsletter comes out once a week and contains some really useful advice.
So even the Unites States Military are recognising the need to become less reliant on Fossil Fuels!
Can’t Stop Laughing
I was just on the Milkwood Permaculture site having a look at an example of some great Geurrilla Gardening verge style, when I came across a video half way down the page. The tears have only just stopped streaming down my face. Watch this if you need a laugh and confirmation that community is alive and well and functioning outside of beauracratic bullshit.
http://milkwood.net/2012/05/31/a-whole-street-of-verge-gardens/
The Simpler Way….
So all this talk of economics, growth and consumption has got me somewhat fired up.
Throughout my internet wanderings i stumbled upon Samuel Alexander who in my mind is a genius of our generation. A Melbourne University academic, he lives simply and happily in a small hut that he built himself using mostly abandoned materials. He is also the founder and executive director of the Life Poets’ Simplicity Collective (www.simplicitycollective.com), a grass-roots political and community association dedicated to the organization and advancement of the ‘voluntary simplicity’ movement in Australia and New Zealand.
His writing is considered, highly academic, yet grounded and published in mainstream journals.
I think i have an intellectual crush……
Find him here: http://simplerway.org/
Campbell
Garbage Warrior
I watched the doco about Earthships and Mike Reynolds last night. What an inspiring guy. For over 35 yrs he’s been perfecting totally stand alone, sustainable housing options. When the shit hits the fan this is the guy we’ll be turning to for help, and thank God (figure of speech, not a guy in the sky who controls all) he didn’t let the system beat him.
It’s a great little doco and can be watched online at:
The Story of Stuff
Here’s a link to watch the ‘Story of Stuff’ doco that Chris showed us most of in class but not all as the wifi wasn’t playing ball that night.
It’s simple but effective and, useful to show people who aren’t thinking about sustainability as yet!
Pest-repellent Plants by Penny Woodward
I was listening to RRR’s Dirty Deeds the other day and Penny Woodward was on speaking about her new book “Pest-repellent Plants”. I subsequently bought a copy and now recommend it.
It’s a small book (with a small price tag), easy to read with good cross referencing between plants and pests. It also has a lot of useful advice at tackling pests in the home, (using the same plants as she recommends for the garden). If you buy it from her site, it arrives by post very quickly.
See the link for more information. Happy Pest Control!
Kath
Financial Permaculture
Further to our class on Economics:
Apparently there is a Financial Permaculture course in America it doesn’t look like it’s been run since 2010 but here’s the link anyway if anyone’s interested.
http://www.financialpermaculture.org/
or try
http://www.financialpermaculture.com/cms/
I haven’t heard of any such courses here in Australia.
File Sharing
There is a widget I can add to the sidebar that enables file sharing via Box.net. If anyone thinks this is useful or has some files to share leave a comment and I’ll set it up. There’s a 1gb limit, so maybe we could rotate files in and out if we end up with large files or too many.
How To Contribute
If you would like to contribute to this site and you’re on the Ceres PDC 2012 mailing list, then you have my email address and can email me to say you want to contribute, and I’ll send you an invite. If you’re not on the mailing list and have come from somewhere else then fill out the contact form below and I’ll send you an invite. Please write a couple of lines about your connection to permaculture in the comments box.
Once you contact me to contribute then I will send you an invite. If you, then set up a username (on the right side of the page) not a blog and then go back to the invite email and accept the invitation then you can sign in and access the dashboard for permaculture people. From there you can post etc. You can’t access the dashboard without an invite so if you set up a username without my invite email you’ll still have to ask me to invite you and then accept the invitation. Boring but true.
As you have probably noticed it’s all about the invite!
There can be the odd glitch, so if you are having difficulties let me know. I’ll try and, update this post with any tech support for these glitches as I figure them out.
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