On the food frontline: seminar highlights growing challenge of food insecurity

August 7, 2016 The alt.food movement

Not knowing where next week's meals are coming from is something fortunately unknown to most if us. But, for a growing number of people its is a real…

The fair food movement: morally superior and elitist?

August 3, 2016 The alt.food movement

Is the fair food movement being inadvertently elitist and morally superior? Does it position its participants above people who do not share its food values? Yes, says Rachel…

Lloyd Kahn — pioneer, builder, author, inspiration

July 23, 2016 Journal

Something of a latecomer to skateboarding, Lloyd Khan came early to owner-building, resilient living, writing and publishing…

Farewell and thanks Michael Herr: Despatches — an appreciation

July 9, 2016 Journal

He wrote several books and consulted on films, but Michael Herr's best known book is Despatches, a book of his time reporting the war in Vietnam as the…

Artefact a list of global permaculture organisations of the past

June 9, 2016 Journal

In the deep dingy recesses of a seldom visited bookshelf, an amazing artefact from permaculture's hidden past has been uncovered…

A community that never was

May 29, 2016 Permaculture

Questions remain unanswered. Experiments are left undone. So it was with Cooplacurripa…