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David Holmgren talks Transition and Strategy

Submitted by Richard on 2 December 2011 - 8:28am | updated 02 Dec 2011 | Blog entry

Co-orginator of the Permaculture concept David Holmgren is one of the few big thinkers that has logically analysed the coming crises without getting bogged down in the doom and gloom.

If you have not come across Holmgren's ideas around Future Scenarios then this interview is well worth a look.

 

 

 

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Koanga Garden Internship Opportunity 2011-12

Submitted by Koanga on 13 September 2011 - 4:36pm | Local news

Koanga is now accepting applications for Summer 2011-12 Garden Interns.

Koanga Seed GardenThe Position: Koanga Garden Intern
Date of Internship: December 1st 2011 – March 30th 2012
Application form: http://www.koanga.org.nz/application-summer-internship-2011-12 » Read more

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Koanga Permaculture Design Course

Submitted by Koanga on 8 March 2011 - 3:26pm | Local news

The Koanga Institute is holding a Permaculture Design Course in April 2011.(April 9-22) » Read more

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Awhi Farm

Submitted by James Samuel on 25 September 2010 - 10:01am | updated 25 Sep 2010 | Blog entry

I took a camper van last week and went first to Opotiki visiting Kazel Cass, then down to Turangi to visit Bryan Innes and Jo Pearsal, conveners and organisers of all the past Eco Show events in NZ. Bryan and Jo took me out to Awhi Farm, the site of an old Ministry of Works depot on the highway in Turangi, where they are helping Lisa establish a permanent Eco Show and a NZ version of a Centre for Appropriate Technology.

I took a lot of video on my android mobile phone, then edited them before posting to YouTube.

The first one is about food, and the second one focuses on the buildings they are putting up.

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Cultivating Ecoliteracy through Permaculture

Submitted by Catrina on 29 October 2009 - 6:09am | Blog entry

This blog can be best viewed at http://permaculturesanctuaries.blogspot.com/

Thank you!

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Urban Food Production at the Expo

Submitted by freefood.org.nz on 11 September 2009 - 4:49pm | Blog entry

It was the Transition Towns presentation on Urban Food Production today at the cathedral. There were three speakers on the subject, all taking different approaches to the problem of what to do about food in the city. » Read more

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Raglan Events

Submitted by James Samuel on 8 September 2009 - 7:17am | updated 08 Sep 2009 | Local news

Permaculture design course Raglan 4-19th September

Earthbag building course Raglan 21Sept- 4th Oct

Tools for Teachers Taupo 12-17th October » Read more

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Gratitude

Submitted by James Samuel on 26 July 2009 - 5:14am | Blog entry

Two days ago I was speaking with a group of people on a Permaculture design course in Chile. Grifen Hope, an inspiring and energetic young man I met briefly at a LETS conference in 2006, has been in Chile for a couple of years now. He has been making good use of technology recently, and setting up Skype video calls for his design students.

When Grifen wrote and told me his students had been speaking with David Holmgren and Geoff Lawton (two people in the Permaculture world that I have huge respect for), I felt honoured that he was inviting me to follow in their footsteps. For an hour I fielded questions about Transition Towns and how it is growing in New Zealand, in which my video image from their side was a dark screen with a single bright spot from a naked lightbulb.

At the end, by way of hosting them in my place, I took the laptop out into the garden and onto the deck of the house we have been living in for the last few months.This was the view which greeted them, and I suspect from Grifen's comments part of what made him a little homesick.

Oneroa Bay Panorama » Read more

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