Permaculture – a movement in need of a history

December 27, 2007 Journal

Permaculture's early books emerged from a publishing context of magazines and books on alternative living and a social context of footloose youth seeking better ways of living. Despite…

Like faces at a window

September 29, 2007 Memoir

It is now 1970 and now, at 168 Cathedral Street, people were to come and go through the year, however there would remain a core of permanent residents…

A decade turns

August 28, 2007 Memoir

It is almost 1970 and this is Sydney. Focused on the present moment, we afford too little thought to the next ten years... the next five years... the…

Hidden path to a cove’s history

August 27, 2007 Nomadics

The old shacks at Crater Cove are a reminder of the days when life was somehow simpler and our needs fewer. They housed an eclectic group of people...

Partings

August 20, 2007 Memoir

For most, it was the last experience of communal life before long term partnerships (or a succession of longer-term relationships for some) and families...

A short and incomplete history of permaculture

July 26, 2007 Permaculture

An article on permaculture's history - from 1972 onwards - supplied to the New Internationalist magazine by Steve Payne and Russ Grayson, 2007...