Bill Mollison Four-Book 20% Off Special Offer
DVDs/Books — by Bonnie Freibergs May 15, 2012
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Comments (0)Permaculture Film On Demand in Hilton Resorts
DVDs/Books — by Global Resource Alliance May 10, 2012
An inspiring documentary film featuring permaculture in rural Tanzania will be available to watch for free ‘on demand’ in Hilton and Waldorf Astoria Hotels and Resorts all over the world.
“From the Mara Soil,” directed by Steve Schrenzel and produced by Global Resource Alliance, Inc., was one of five films selected by a partnership between the Sundance Institute and Hilton Worldwide to receive the 2012 Hilton Worldwide LightStay Sustainability Award. The LightStay Sustainability Fund and Award recognizes films that heighten sustainability awareness. “From the Mara Soil” was selected from more than 5,000 short film entries for the Sundance Film Festival.
Comments (2)PRI Australia International Permaculture Day Events You Can Attend
DVDs/Books, Presentations/Demonstrations, Social Gatherings — by Craig Mackintosh PRI Editor April 30, 2012
One of several Zaytuna Farm dams
Photo © Craig Mackintosh
People who will be in northern NSW, Australia, on International Permaculture Day (May 6), might want to avail themselves of one, or both, of the following two opportunities — and make a truly International Permaculture Day of it!
Comments (0)Store Specials
DVDs/Books — by Bonnie Freibergs April 20, 2012
Click the advert below to go to our store and take advantage of discounts on these great educational resources:
New Permaculture Resources in Store
DVDs/Books — by Bonnie Freibergs March 26, 2012
Our online store is slowly expanding. Please check out our latest additions. If there is a book title or tool you would like to see listed, please feel free to let us know: education (at) permaculture.org.au
Comments (1)Seeds of Freedom, 2012 (Official Trailer Release)
DVDs/Books, Seeds — by Keveen Gabet February 22, 2012
To see things in the seed, that is genius. – Lao Tzu
I guess Lao Tzu did not factor that there would be two types of geniuses born. Those, like a handful of greedy corporations, who use seeds to control, govern and enslave, and those — like traditional farmers and permaculturists — who nurture the future of humanity through them.
Comments (0)Funding Sought for Permaculture Film – The Chikukwa Project
Aid Projects, Community Projects, DVDs/Books, Demonstration Sites, Education Centres, Village Development — by Monika Goforth February 18, 2012
Gillian Leahy (a documentary maker) and Terry Leahy (permaculture researcher) are making a film about the Chikukwa project in Zimbabwe.
This is a feel good story out of Africa. For the last 20 years an amazing permaculture project has been working in Zimbabwe. Where once the people of the Chikukwa villages suffered hunger, malnutrition and high rates of disease, this community has turned its fortunes around using permaculture farming techniques. Complementing these strategies for food security, they have built their community strength through locally controlled and initiated programs for permaculture training, conflict resolution, women’s empowerment, primary education and HIV management. Now they have a surplus of food and the people in these villages are healthy and proud of their achievements. Their degraded landscape has been turned into a lush paradise. This film shows how this has happened.
Comments (2)Store Update – New Items
DVDs/Books — by Bonnie Freibergs February 8, 2012
As well as the Permaculture International Journal special shown above, we thought you might like to know about new recent additions to our online store:
- Earth User’s Guide to Permaculture 2nd Edition
- Earth User’s Guide to Permaculture: Teachers Notes
- Edible Forest Gardens, Volume One: Vision and Theory
- Edible Forest Gardens, Volume Two: Design and Practice
Please also note that the following book is also on special:
Comments (1)Gaiacraft Workbook: Global Release
Courses/Workshops, DVDs/Books — by Delvin Solkinson February 3, 2012
As an offering to the planetary permaculture movement we have created a workbook of permaculture worksheets. This educational tool kit will help support your learning and teaching practice.
In the spirit of a genuine love for permaculture education and in gratitude to the world community, this new learning tool is intended to help heal and empower our relationship with ourselves, the Earth and each other. The Gaiacraft Permaculture Workbook shares a collection of universal handouts which string together a larger body of teachings from Bill Mollison, Rosemary Morrow, Geoff Lawton, David Holmgren and Toby Hemenway. It’s edited in collaboration by the Gaiacraft team; Delvin Solkinson, Lunaya Shekinah, Jacob Aman, Tamara Griffiths and Ali Ma. This is a unique and practical addition to your understanding and practice of permaculture.
Comments (6)Permaculture – A Beginner’s Guide (free extract)
DVDs/Books — by Craig Mackintosh PRI Editor January 10, 2012
Some years ago Graham Burnett produced Permaculture: A Beginner’s Guide. It’s a nice 76-page introductory look a permaculture — a very readable booklet to get you looking at the world, and your garden, through the permaculture lens. It’s in no way a substantial, technical how-to type manual, but rather a good inspirational dose of permaculture principles with a broad smattering of practical examples of how to apply them. In short, it’s a great tool to get one started on the permaculture pathway.
One personal observation on a possible downside to this otherwise excellent perma-intro is that the illustrations tend to leave one thinking permaculture is only for a sub-culture of people: the hand-drawn illustrations are populated with unshaven punks, sloganned t-shirt anarchists, dreadlock-wearing ethnic minorities and suchlike. Even the cartoon guy demonstrating the composting toilet has to be stark naked. The December 2008 update of this book would have done well to replace these images with ones that didn’t tend to leave one feeling permaculture was just for the fringe elements of society. But it didn’t. Perhaps next time.
Anyway, I thought I’d provide a link to a freely available 24-page extract (3mb PDF) of the book that could be useful for those trying to explain permaculture to friends, family and colleagues.
Comments (14)Permaculture Diary and Calendar
DVDs/Books, For Sale — by Gordon Williams December 20, 2011
The new year will soon be upon us, but there is still time to get your hands on the 2012 Permaculture Diary and Calendar so you can plan and keep track of all your events and activities.
Comments (0)Learn Grow: Edible Plant Information Resources
DVDs/Books, Food Plants - Annual, Food Plants - Perennial, Food Shortages, Health & Disease, Medicinal Plants, Trees — by Craig Mackintosh PRI Editor November 26, 2011
I thought I’d share this excellent, growing resource on edible plants for specific regions.
At time of writing the Learn Grow project has created comprehensive plant list info for the following regions:
In addition, the site has two disks available that should be of direct interest to Australian permaculturists:
Comments (0)Rainwater Harvesting Volumes I & II Christmas Book Special
DVDs/Books — by Bonnie Freibergs
Looking for an enlightening Christmas gift? Brad Lancaster’s highly regarded Rainwater Harvesting series certainly fits neatly into this category. The two books are temporarily discounted to encourage you to share the permaculture word this holiday season.
To receive your order before Christmas please order before the following dates: Australian orders by the 15th of December International orders by the 29th of November.
Comments (2)New book: Equine Permaculture – Regenerative Horse Property Design & Pasture Management
DVDs/Books, Livestock, Rehabilitation, Working Animals — by Mariette van den Berg November 18, 2011
Equine Permaculture: Regenerative Horse Property Design & Pasture Management
A collection of articles, 80 pages
by Mariette van den Berg & Nicholas Huggins
Generally, horse keeping is considered to be a costly hobby or business, especially with current price rises in living expenses and feed costs. On top of that, horse and land owners encounter high input costs or difficulties to maintain pastures and sustain the dietary needs of horses.
Comments (3)Sustainable Living Film Festival, Istanbul, Turkey
Courses/Workshops, DVDs/Books — by PRI Turkey November 5, 2011
What: A sustainable film festival
When: December 2-4, 2011
Where: Istanbul
Systemic change is only possible with the simultaneous transformation of individuals, communities and institutions that constitute the system. A system changes when the critical majority of the components reach a new level of consciousness. This is only possible when the individuals’ perception of the reality that they are in has changed, where they can establish a cause-effect relationship of the system and then see their role in the order of things.
The Sustainable Living Film Festival that we are organizing — in order to contribute to the restructuring of all aspects of life from agriculture to energy, from health to recycling and from education to economy — has a holistic perspective and it aims to;
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