Energy and Permaculture by David Holmgren

     The sustainability debate has shown a deep confusion about the processes and systems which support life and humanity. The lack of conceptual tools to incorporate previously ignored environmental “givens” into calculations used by economists and...

Another Kind of Energy or ComPost-Modernism

Another Kind of Energy or ComPost-Modernism by Peter Bane Copyright © Nov. 2000, Permaculture Activist magazine. This article originally appeared in The Permaculture Activist, #44      PERMACULTURE HAS ITS GENESIS in the visionary work of J. Russell Smith, J. Sholto...

Who Am I to Farm? by Peter Bane

From issue #82 of The Permaculture Activist (now Permaculture Design Magazine), GROWING STAPLE CROPS • NOVEMBER 2011, excerpted from Peter’s new book: The Permaculture Handbook: Garden Farming for Town and Country. Who Am I to Farm?: The Dream of the Suburbs by...