What permaculture isn’t – Guest Post by Meg McGowan
Hey all. Dan here. Yes, that’s right, I’m still here, having kind of disappeared with my family to enjoy almost two months mostly offline in a recep...
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Shane Ward on the Carol Sanford and Jason Gerhart Episodes
Hey all – here I continue sharing some (initially private) correspondence from recent months. Thanks to my friend and colleague Shane Ward from Action Eco...
Adrian Hodgson’s Sketches on Design Process Ecology and Succession
Hey all, Dan here. Wow I can’t believe six weeks just whizzed by. I did co-facilitate a PDC, attend my second Possibility Lab, worked through a few health...
Peter Kopp on the Mapping the Design Process series
Note from Dan: Big thanks to Peter for contributing these great reflections. So I sent Dan an email with a few diagrams and ideas about my thoughts regarding hi...
Concept plans vs detailed plans
Guest post by Meg McGowan Note from Dan: Mega thanks to Meg for permission to republish this from her personal blog. Great exploration of moving from what I cal...
Living Design Process at Limestone Road – a Video Letter
Guest post by John Carruthers Living Design Process (LDP) and Holistic Decision Making (HDM) thinker Dan Palmer asked me last month to put together a short vide...
Striking at the Root: A Life in Permaculture Design – by Jason Gerhardt
…guest post by Jason Gerhardt… I came to Permaculture through a combination of hope and desperation. After growing up with street violence, early de...
Positive, negative and neutral design – guest post by Shane Simonsen
At its heart permaculture is a design oriented philosophy. When we go through the design process we normally take note of the local landforms and resources as i...
Dan Palmer’s Journey with Permaculture Design Process and David Holmgren’s Response (E11)
This episode is a recording of a session during a four-day workshop that was run last week by David Holmgren from Holmgren Design and Dan Palmer from Making Per...