Permaculture Design Magazine

07/28/2025

The whole quote here is "Self-reliance in food is meaningless unless people have access to land, information, and financial resources. So in recent years it has come to encompass appropriate legal and financial strategies, including strategies for land access, business structures, and regional self-financing. This way it is a whole human system." - and it was as true when Bill Mollison said it as it is now. Earth care is people-care and vice-versa - a whole systems approach to regenerating our lands and waters and societies must come from a place of creating economic opportunities for people who want to be part of creating a new paradigm, to do so.

This portrait of Bill was commissioned of the Nakivale Arts Collective of Uganda, a non-profit dedicated to helping creative individuals in the world's largest and oldest refugee camp to forge new life pathways through art. Learn more about them and Bill and all of these things at https://globalearthrepairfoundation.org/bill-mollison/ . Thanks for everything you do!

Bill Mollison

10/25/2024

Sane Thinker
@spore.social
"Here's an article about planetary boundaries. If you have ever felt confused about the pretty graphic (I was), I have researched each area to better understand what it means. I'm sorry to say, our window for any kind of decent future is closing quickly."

Perilous times on planet Earth

09/26/2024

The World is in Crisis
This is why

by Rachel Donald
Sep 23, 2024

"Over dinner last week, I was asked to give a sweeping overview as to why the planet is in crisis. As I was talking, I realised I am yet to amalgamate that same information for my subscribers in one post. So, here goes..."

"We are beings of language, speaking the world into being & trapping it in the written word. We have created constancy where there is only temporality. We have even created individuals where there are only relationships. When it comes to money, we consider ourselves alchemists, creating something out of nothing. But the world of words falls away under the pressure of reality, whether we see it or not. Some of us fall with it. Some of us retreat. Some of us scramble for different words. Some of us scream. Almost none of us stop to look."

This is why

09/19/2024

Instructor visits the biggest rooftop on the West Coast of the US located in Oakland, . Designed and built by Benjamin Fahrer of Top Leaf Farms and operated by Deep Medicine Circle, this is an impressive project bringing food production, security, and food justice to the heart of the city.

Permaculture Instructor Andrew Millison visits the biggest rooftop farm on the West Coast of the US located in Oakland, California. Designed and built by Ben...

07/23/2024

oldguy52
@techhub.social
"Today was a heavy work day for volunteers at Oxley [UK]. We should finish replacing Timbers along the main trail (as requested by the director) next week. Recent rains have helped soften the soil making work a little easier. We placed 37 timbers today with a crew of 3 (72 year-olds).

I am noticing fewer pollinators, and fewer birds in the woods, likely due to the rapidly worsening climate emergency. Since Sunday was the hottest day ever recorded (globally), it will only get worse. Action is desperately needed."

07/20/2024

"A paper from Cornell by scientists that showed that in 2023 the ability of plants and to absorb basically dropped to almost nothing. The Tropics were so hot & so dry that they are net emitters & the northern latitudes capacity dropped by *50%*.
The implications are three fold.
1. IPCC models did not predict this until much, much later which means they are assuming that the soil and trees will be absorbing carbon that won't be absorbed. Yet again, the IPCC models are wildly understating the impacts of climate change.
2. In 2022, the oceans absorbed MORE carbon than usual, which may (this is speculative) explain why they are warming so fast - & it is possibly because they also are hitting absorption limits.
3. Unless something changes there is no reason to believe we are not going to experience runaway global warming, & probably are already experiencing it."
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.12447
Incidentally, this has already gotten 122 shares on Mastodon, where algorithms don't delete or hide your posts, like on Facebook.

In 2023, the CO2 growth rate was 3.37 +/- 0.11 ppm at Mauna Loa, 86% above the previous year, and hitting a record high since observations began in 1958, while global fossil fuel CO2 emissions only increased by 0.6 +/- 0.5%. This implies an unprecedented weakening of land and ocean sinks, and raises...