Organise your own Permaculture Design Course
Manage your own Professional-level Permaculture Design Course or Study Circle[caption id="attachment_2769" align="alignleft" width="203" caption="Typical results of Permaculture Design course"][/caption]If you have (or are a member of) a sustainable or holistic focused group, organization or business, this blog post is for you…An easy…
What is Permaculture Design?
Commentary on Geoff Lawton’s brilliant exposition of a basic, beginner’s guide to ‘What is Permaculture Design’:My definition of Permaculture Design: creating human settlements (gardens, homesteads, communities, cities, bioregions, etc.) that mimic (or are informed by) forms & functions observed in Nature.What I really liked about this…
Four Essentials to Thrive Today And Beyond
Woohoo! I sold my first affiliate product through Empower Network yesterday!!!After only 8 days of posting on Empower Network, I’ve found someone (actually she found me via my blog marketing strategy) who saw the tremendous value in this opportunity to sign up.But the fact, is I really don’t know how to blog (but I am learning more as…
Forest Gardens: The Future of Real Food- pt. 2
Making a forest garden is definitely for people who like to experiment in Nature.If you like straight rows and garden produce that everybody knows, then maybe it’s not for you. Although there are plenty of books on the subject, creating this kind of garden is a continual, creative work in process.Food forests are like any other natural…
How to Take Control of Your Future Food Supply
In general, we in the western industrialized nations don’t know much about how to grow our own food.This is in spite of the fact that there are literally dozens of wild edible plants wherever we happen to be living of which we are also ignorant.Our collective ignorance invites a huge risk when it comes to food security and survival.…
Social Entrepreneurs: Pioneering Social Change
Social Entrepreneurship will be a MASSIVE movement in the future…But, it’s here…NOW.Does this career path offer a solution for YOU to help others?I’d love to hear your thoughts.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jk5LI_WcosQ&feature=youtu.be_________________________________________________If YOU have a message to share about…
The Transition Town Movement could benefit from this…
On a perfect spring day in late May 2010, I was one of around 20 people who attended a life-changing weekend workshop called the Transition Initiative training in Oklahoma City. This training is a creation of the Transition Network whose “role is to inspire, encourage, connect, support and train communities as they self-organise around the…
