The Story of… Cap & Trade
If you’re already aware of the excellent short film ‘The Story of Stuff’, you’ll be pleased to hear that Annie Leonard and her team are back with an important message about the Copenhagen agenda… If...
View ArticleCycle-pathic behaviour
A friend reminded me this morning of the one humourous book in my otherwise serious permaculture library. It’s the one book I refer course students to when they feel at a point of information overload,...
View ArticleGreening the Desert II
The much awaited follow up to Geoff Lawton’s inspirational five minute flash video posted on You Tube a few years ago… Greening the Desert II: Greening the Middle East from Craig Mackintosh on Vimeo.
View ArticleThe Impossible Hamster
A strange but interesting short video for all economists (and the rest of us participating) to ponder…
View ArticleWe are surrounded by genius…
Janine Benyus introduces the science of Biomimicry; using nature as our inspiration for creating new technologies. This gives me so much hope for our collective future and fits so beautifully into the...
View ArticleLeadership lessons from dancing guy
This short but interesting video is at first just funny, but then makes an important point about how quickly movements can gather pace. Important when we are feeling like we are still that lone voice...
View ArticleDid you feel vulnerable?
The recent snow affected most of us in one way or another. Interestingly, I was running a Permaculture Diploma tutor training event on the outskirts of London when much of it fell. I thought the...
View ArticleThe Principles of Living
I stumbled upon Colleen Stevenson’s beautiful illustrative take on the permaculture principles today and thought I’d like to share it. Check out her website www.colleenstevensongraphics.com to see much...
View ArticleIf you ever get to feel like you’re on your own…
Just give five minutes to this inspiring talk by bioneer Paul Hawken:
View ArticleNature by Numbers
I just came across this video and felt compelled to share it. Three and three quarter minutes of amazing animation showing how numbers create all the beautiful things we see around us. Enjoy!
View ArticleGrow your own pea shoots
Having been introduced to this idea by two different people in the same week earlier this month, I thought I’d give it a go. Not much to say really, other than it’s easy to do and the pea shoots taste...
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