This brief piece was written in September 2003 as a contribution to a book (in French) by Christophe Elain, “Un petit coin pour soulager la planète: Toilettes sèches et histoires d’eau”, published 2005 by Goutte de Sable.
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This brief piece was written in September 2003 as a contribution to a book (in French) by Christophe Elain, “Un petit coin pour soulager la planète: Toilettes sèches et histoires d’eau”, published 2005 by Goutte de Sable.
Download PDF (182KB)
Available for download is David Holmgren’s essay “Retrofitting the suburbs for sustainability”, which was adapted from a public lecture given at the Aldinga Arts Eco-village in Adelaide in January 2005.
In his latest writing, David Holmgren explores how energy descent futures are already unfolding as lived experience. In this piece, Holmgren develops a tale about past and current events that reflects the worst fears of organic growers, consumers and the wider environmental movement about GMOs in relation to energy descent futures. His scenario invites those committed to the values behind the fight against GMOs to reflect on and reframe current events.
Toby Hemenway, one of the most influential permaculture authors and teachers from North America, passed away earlier this week aged 64. Toby discovered permaculture in 1990 after a career in genetics and developed a rural permaculture property in southern Oregon with his wife Kiel. He was editor of Permaculture Activist magazine from 1999 to 2004 and his book Gaia’s Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture is credited as being the most successful book about permaculture in the world, having sold more than 250,000 copies. His 2015 book The Permaculture City: Regenerative Design for Urban, Suburban, and Town Resilience applies permaculture thinking and principles to organising everyday life.
In 2005, Su and I were hosted by Toby in Portland, Oregon during our 6-month teaching and study tour of North America. I remember him as earnest and modest as he maintained a passionate commitment to permaculture ideas as he made the transition from rural self-reliant living to applying permaculture in the city. His move back to urban living was emblematic of the learnings of our generation about the limits to rural self-sufficiency.
Vision is not seeing things as they are but how they will be.
~ David Holmgren, Permaculture Co-originator
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