Environment Sustainability Permaculture Adelaide
Paul Birkwood Permaculture SA (PASA) is a non-profit organisation whose purpose is to promote, practice, and represent permaculture in South Australia. It acts as the peak body for most of the South Australian permaculture community. PASA has an excellent website with a very substantial Calendar of events: http://www.permaculturesa.org.au/calendar/
The Food Forest is an organic farm using permaculture principles and practices.
Sustainable Communities SA is a non-profit organisation which promotes sustainable living in a community context. In the NPSP council, they operate the One Planet market, which meets monthly. See their web page for One Planet market times, location and contact details: http://sustainablecommunitiessa.org.au/projects/one-planet-market/
Margaret RainbowWeb has been maintaining the Re-Earth the Cities website for many years. It is a rich source of information about permaculture principles based on personal experience and research. In particular, visit Permaculture Journey.
Since being involved in permaculture way back in 1995, permaculture gatherings came with a reasonable amount of drumming and chanting. There seemed to be a need amongst some participants to incorporate music and dance into the gatherings. Typically, the daytime would be taken up with presentations and demonstrations. As nighttime approached and after mealtime, out … Read more
As the climate heats up, the urban environment heats up even more. Gerti Hatvani-Kovacs, one of John Boland’s PhD students, will be on the Science Show on Radio National this Saturday at 12 noon, speaking on a topic : How to keep cool when the heat is on. If you miss the show, see the … Read more
Elon Musk gave a talk at at the University of Paris Pantheon Sorbonne (Elon Musk, 2015) during the Paris Climate Change conference in December. During the Q and A, Elon suggests that entire US could be powered by installing solar renewable technology in a ‘little corner of Nevada or Utah’. Elon Musk just made a … Read more
So much of our domestic potable drinking water is consumed in the kitchen for washing dishes, in the laundry in our washing machine as well as in the family bathroom for taking showers. Grey water is the result of all this activity. The use of greywater in South Australia is governed by SA Health. The … Read more
Training sites for permaculture are located around Australia. The main location for obtaining training in South Australia, including the Permaculture Certificate, is the Food Forest. Please contact the Food Forest via the web site contact webpage.
Permaculture is a term created from two words: permanent agriculture (permi-culture) and is a design or pattern based way of developing sustainable living for the Planet. Permaculture was cofounded by Bill Mollison and David Holmgren. David is very much active in the continuing development and provides a synopsis on his website: Holmgren Design > About Permaculture.