Celebrating the Life and Work of Christopher Alexander
On March 17, 2022, at 85 years of age, Christopher Alexander passed away peacefully in his home in West Sussex, England. This post celebrates his life, and for ...
Category: Acknowledging others
Building Your Permaculture Property: Part One – On Worldviews and Metaphors
Making Permaculture Stronger’s core focus is regenerating permaculture design process together. By this, I mean the deep and hard work of a) honing in on permac...
A Delightful Day of Designing with Dave Jacke
Greetings all. Today, given I’m currently amidst recording and releasing some podcast conversations with Dave Jacke (starting here), I thought I’d d...
On the Relation between Designing and Implementing in Permaculture – Part 8
Welcome back to the next instalment in this inquiry into the relation between designing and implementing in permaculture design. We are now up to post 1, 2, 3, ...
On the Relation between Designing and Implementing in Permaculture – Part 7
Rafter Sass Ferguson has drawn attention to permaculture’s insularity or relative lack of mutually-enriching interaction with complementary developments a...
Homage to Bill Mollison
In Making Permaculture Stronger’s first post of 2017, I pay homage to the late, great Bill Mollison. Despite a rumour that the news of his death was a lie...
Christopher Alexander’s Challenge meets Darren J. Doherty’s Design Process – Part One of Two
Introduction This post continues and deepens an inquiry into two contrasting understandings of design process. Christopher Alexander challenges the standard per...
The Exceptional Case of Dave Jacke & Edible Forest Gardens
Note: This post is a follow-on from Christopher Alexander’s Neglected Challenge to Permaculture Chapters Three and Four of Dave Jacke and Eric Toensmeier’...
Good folk already Making Permaculture Stronger
Here I list known (to me) practitioners of permaculture actively doing the work of making permaculture stronger by at the least assessing & articulating wea...