Video Update January 2019
A few words from Dan on where Making Permaculture Stronger is heading in the coming months (direct from his second story house bus remote office in New Zealand)...
Author: Dan Palmer
Bringing it all together in just. one. diagram. (Part Four – the Nine Spaces)
The below diagram summarises coming up to three years of publicly poking around into how permaculture design is usually defined, discussed, and practiced. I am ...
A mini-conversation with Jason Gerhardt
Hey all, for reasons I’m sure will be obvious I’ve decided to promote this insightful comment on the last post from Jason Gerhardt into a post. Mean...
Bringing it all together in just. one. diagram. (Part Three of Five)
A couple of posts back I introduced a diagrammatic snapshot of where Making Permaculture Stronger has arrived after over two years conducting two in-depth inqui...
Bringing it all together in just. one. diagram. (Part Two of Five)
The last post introduced this weird and possibly confusing little diagram: The diagram frames a pathway from more conventional design processes toward what I be...
Bringing it all together in just. one. diagram. (Part One of Five)
The following diagram is a hyper-condensed summary of over two years, 80 posts and 70,000 words worth of this blog’s assorted ramblings about permaculture...
Talking Permaculture and Design Thinking with Gordon from Rune Soup
Thanks to Gordon White for a fascinating chat I look forward to continuing in future. As Gordon put it on his release page: This week we welcome to the show per...
Breaking News: The Making Permaculture Stronger book is well under way
You got it, the Making Permaculture Stronger blog is leaping off the screen and reorganising itself into a book. Let me explain… …and stay tuned at ...
What is Design, Anyway?
I wanted to bring together a bit of recent facebook discussion about what design is and what design might have to do with permaculture. What is Design? First up...
Review and Refresh of Inquiry One
I recently concluded my second inquiry which considered the relation between designing and implementing within permaculture. In this post I’ll revisit, re...