KŌHEI SAITŌ
Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto

When [John] O’Neill examined quality of life relative to environmental damage, his research proved that the more stable a nation’s social foundation was, the greater the tendency for that nation to overshoot planetary boundaries. Almost every nation satisfied social demands by sacrificing sustainability.

This is an incredibly inconvenient truth to uncover. It means that using developed nations as models when helping emerging countries raise their living standards to attain the minimum social foundation will inevitably, when seen from a planetary point of view, lead us down the path to total destruction.

Currently Reading

George Monbiot
REGENESIS
Feeding The World Without Devouring The Planet

Still Reading

Isabella Tree and Charlie Burrell
THE BOOK OF WILDING
A Practical Guide to Rewilding Big and Small

Currently Reading

Isabella Tree and Charlie Burrell
THE BOOK OF WILDING
A Practical Guide to Rewilding Big and Small

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THE BIGGEST LITTLE FARM
John Chester, USA, 2018

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Jessica Eise and Ken Foster

HOW TO FEED THE WORLD

[Nothing like a little light reading to make christians foam at the mouth with their hate.]



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ATTRACTING BENEFICIAL BUGS TO YOUR GARDEN

A Natural Approach to Pest Control 

Revised and Updated Second Edition

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Jessica Walliser

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EDIBLE FOREST GARDENS

VOL 2 - DESIGN & PRACTICE

Ecological Vision and Theory for Temperate Climate Permaculture

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Dave Jacke

with Eric Toensmeier

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EDIBLE FOREST GARDENS

VOL 2 - DESIGN & PRACTICE

Ecological Vision and Theory for Temperate Climate Permaculture

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Dave Jacke

with Eric Toensmeier

Currently Reading

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EDIBLE FOREST GARDENS

VOL 1 - VISION & THEORY

Ecological Vision and Theory for Temperate Climate Permaculture

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Dave Jacke

with Eric Toensmeier

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BUILDING A BETTER WORLD IN YOUR BACKYARD INSTEAD OF BEING ANGRY AT BAD GUYS

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Paul Wheaton

Shawn Klassen-Koop

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SELF-SUFFICIENCY FOR THE 21st CENTURY

The Complete Guide to Sustainable Living Today

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Dick and James Strawbridge

ALICE WATERS

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I feel it is an obligation to help people understand the relation of food to agriculture and the relationship of food to culture.

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FARMING THE WOODS
An Integrated Permaculture Approach to Growing Food and Medicinals in Temperate Forests

Ken Mudge and Steve Gabriel

FOOLS AND DREAMERS:

REGENERATING A NATIVE FOREST

Regenerating a Native Forest is a 30-minute documentary about Hinewai Nature Reserve, on New Zealand’s Banks Peninsula, and its kaitiaki/manager of 30 years, botanist Hugh Wilson. When, in 1987, Hugh let the local community know of his plans to allow the introduced ‘weed’ gorse to grow as a nurse canopy to regenerate farmland into native forest, people were not only skeptical but outright angry – the plan was the sort to be expected only of “fools and dreamers”.

Now considered a hero locally and across the country, Hugh oversees 1500 hectares resplendent in native forest, where birds and other wildlife are abundant and 47 known waterfalls are in permanent flow. He has proven without doubt that nature knows best – and that he is no fool.

---> hinewai.org.nz

---> happenfilms.com 

THE FOREST GARDEN GREENHOUSE -
HOW TO DESIGN AND MANAGE AN INDOOR PERMACULTURE OASIS
Jerome Osentowski

THE VERTICAL FARM - 
FEEDING THE WORLD IN THE 21ST CENTURY
Dr. Dickson Despommier

CITIZEN FARMERS:

THE BIODYNAMIC WAY TO GROW HEALTHY FOOD, BUILD THRIVING COMMUNITIES, AND GIVE BACK TO THE EARTH

Daron Joffe, 2004

Cover Crops and Composte Crops

 

A tour of Limestone Permaculture Farm in New South Wales, Australia. Brett Cooper manages the 1-acre property as a productive farm helping to feed around 50 families. The tour includes a look at the orchard, caravan farm gate, chicken and duck areas, and shade house, and Brett talks about what brought him and his family to this complete change of lifestyle – in which they are thriving.

limestonepermaculture.com

happenfilms.com