Fun for all ages with the irrepressible Costa as MC for the inaugural PermaLympics at Djanbung Gardens as part of our 20th anniversary celebrations. Get your team together for the Permablitz marathon making a no-dig garden– teams of four and extra points for team names to challenge the “Manic Mulchers” for the Permablitz championship. You …
Join Costa Georgiadis, Robyn Francis and lots of amazing people at the Djanbung Gardens 20th Anniversary Celebration, June long weekend, 7-9th for a three day program of events and entertainment – be inspired, feel empowered, share the abundance. We invite you to celebrate beauty, abundance, the earth’s capacity to regenerate, and our collective creativity and …
Accredited Permaculture Training Information Day at Djanbung Gardens Nov 16, 10am
The next International Permaculture Convergence and Conference, IPC11, will be hosted by Cuba, Nov-Dec 2013. Network with permaculturists from around the world, but to see permaculture in a country that has had to power-down and live within its ecological footprint.
Bellamar Gardens is one of the exctiting new major permaculture projects in Cuba, located near Matanzas, just a hundred meters from the famous Bellamar Caves. I was invited to consult on the project when I visited Cuba in 2009 when the land had quite recently been secured by FANJ (Foundation for Nature and Humanity), Cuba’s …
Denis Madeleine returned to Sydney after completing the 2 semester Certificate IV in Permaculture, Sustainable Aid and Teacher Training course at Djanbung Gardens last year with a new set of skills and the confidence that he could make a difference. After completing his first paying jobs as a professional permaculture design consultant in Sydney early …
Posted Jul 5, 2012 by Rob Hopkins Some Transition reflections on George Monbiot’s announcement that “we were wrong on peak oil” In a nutshell, I think Monbiot’s piece swallows an over-optimistic take on peak oil… What he does prompt is a rethink in terms of how we present peak oil
Here are two very inspiring stories of mainstream communities thinking outside the box to create collaborative solutions to local sustainability issues in Goulburn and Geelong. The Tale of Goulburn Valley… “Our agenda is food sovereignty, food sustainability. This is what we are creating with this broad community cooperative.”
Due for release June 2012, the last major work from Masanobu Fukuoka, author of international bestseller The One-Straw Revolution. This new book, titled Sowing Seeds in the Desert, is Fukuoka’s last major work, and may just be his most important.
Steve Cran reports from Hong Kong, April 2012 “Hong Kong has a huge amount of energy. If it can be channelled into permaculture the concrete will be covered in gardens and forests.”