permaculture

[Wesley Roe and Santa Barbara Permaculture Network <lakinroe@silcom.com>]

New Internationalist, a magazine devoted to grassroots
global development, had a whole issue devoted to permaculture

July 2007
Issue No. 402
http://www.newint.org/issues/current/

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<http://www.newint.org/issues/current//subscriptions/web/>Edible Earth
In search of bright ideas, David Ransom begins by 
learning some very basic lessons about how to 
design a more sustainable, permanent culture.

<http://www.newint.org/issues/current//subscriptions/web/>The 
ethical heart of permaculture
Maddy Harland outlines the principles that make it beat.

<http://www.newint.org/issues/current//subscriptions/web/>The 
problem is the solution
How the prospect of penury forced David Ransom to 
discover that there’s more than money to be saved 
both at work and at his new home on a Dutch barge.

<http://www.newint.org/issues/current//subscriptions/web/>Tasmanian roots
The two Australians, Bill Mollison and David 
Holmgren, set the ball rolling – Russ Grayson and 
Steve Payne tell their story.

<http://www.newint.org/issues/current//subscriptions/web/>No-dig for victory
A fresh forest of networks is blooming in the 
inner cities of Bristol and London, where David 
Ransom tries to keep pace with Peak Oil as well.

<http://www.newint.org/issues/current//subscriptions/web/>Barns to beacons
A co-operative of ‘peasants’ in rural Dorset and 
a remarkable woman in the Brecon Beacons set some inspiring examples.

<http://www.newint.org/issues/current//subscriptions/web/>10 
DIY permaculture ideas
From living roofs and forest gardens to animal 
tractors and chicken greenhouses.

<http://www.newint.org/issues/current//subscriptions/web/>Global common sense
A brief tour around the permacultural world – 
North America, Nepal, Cuba, India, Palestine, Zimbabwe.

<http://www.newint.org/issues/current//subscriptions/web/>Permanent culture
Had David Ransom known, he might well have taken the same path much sooner.

<http://www.newint.org/issues/current//subscriptions/web/>Action
Contacts, books, websites.

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Radio New Internationalist features permaculture design efforts

This program gets down in the dirt to ask 
progressive people from around the world: 'How 
does your garden grow?' Permaculture may still be 
seen by many as the fodder of the fringe, but its 
designs are having profound results – stopping 
starvation, combating climate change, and 
creating more cohesive communities. Get ready for 
some reasoned realignment as we welcome co-editor 
of New Internationalist magazine David Ransom, 
and hear how growing your own veggies is a 
profoundly political act, challenging the heart of today’s consumer culture.



Radio New Internationalist – How does your garden grow?

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Submitted by ni-radio on June 28, 2007 - 12:00am.

This program gets down in the dirt to ask 
progressive people from around the world: 'How 
does your garden grow?' Permaculture may still be 
seen by many as the fodder of the fringe, but its 
designs are having profound results – stopping 
starvation, combating climate change, and 
creating more cohesive communities. Get ready for 
some reasoned realignment as we welcome co-editor 
of New Internationalist magazine David Ransom, 
and hear how growing your own veggies is a 
profoundly political act, challenging the heart of today’s consumer culture.
   * Permaculturalist Pam Morgan shows us around 
the rooftops, corridors and workplaces of urban 
Cuba – places conscripted for growing fruits and 
vegetables to successfully stave of food shortages.
   * Chris Evans tells us about how young people 
are putting down their guns to make Edible Earth 
in Nepal. (Chris is the Country Representative 
for Appropriate Technology Asia (ATA) Nepal, and 
advisor of Himalayan Permaculture Group).
   * Jonathan Dawson, President of Global 
Ecovillages, explains how permaculture principles 
are outperforming carbon offsets in bringing down greenhouse gas emissions.
   * And while we’re talking about more creative 
consuming, author Sharon Beder adds her thoughts 
about compulsive market disorders.
This week’s album is an old favourite: Rene 
Lacaille and Bob Brozman’s fabulous CD DigDig, 
where the pulse of the Pacific melts into the arms of Bluegrass and Latin.