Book review of important new book on the “weeds or wild nature” issue – August 2004
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Book review of important new book on the “weeds or wild nature” issue – August 2004
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Samuel Alexander, from the Simplicity Collective has just published a new book, Degrowth in the Suburbs: A Radical Urban Imaginary, co-authored with Professor Brendan Gleeson, with a foreword by David Holmgren.
The book addresses a central dilemma of the urban age: how do we make suburban landscapes sustainable in the face of planetary ecological crises? The authors argue that degrowth, a planned contraction of overgrown economies, is the most coherent paradigm for suburban renewal.
This post, supporting community input provided to the Hepburn Shire Councillors, discusses ongoing management of blackberry bushes, as well as the new proposals for willow removal at the upstream end of the lake floated by the FOJL submission from Basil Eliades.
From a permaculture perspective, bees can be beneficially added to any system, improving pollination of crops, yielding storable sugars, pollen, beeswax, and other minor yields, all without detracting from any other yield or use in the system. The full text of this article discusses the use case and usage of apiculture in a permaculture setting
When we use our human creativity and flexibility to work out how we can survive and thrive from what nature has already created in abundance, then we are in harmony with the great song of ecological evolution.
~ David Holmgren, Permaculture Co-originator
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