Permaculture and Politics
How can permaculture and politics work together in the politics of the future.
Exploring models of Education: Critical Multiculturalism
What is the potential of critical multiculturalism as a possible educational model of the future.
Film: The Friends of Durruti and the Maydays in Barcelona (1937)
Find out about the The Friends of Durruti and the Maydays in Barcelona (1937) and what happened during the Spanish Civil War.
ANOK4U2: Crass and Anarchism in the UK
Crass were a revolutionary band, who interweaved radical politics, art and commentary.
The Freeman movement
this piece looks at the freeman movement in the UK.
Employability trainers: a valuable people centred resource or lucrative money spinner
What are the real roles of private training companies, in a failing economic system.
Thrifty times series: Baking your own bread
How to make bread and the use of different grains to make the bread of the future.
Thrifty times series: Home grown food
How to produce your own home grown food as part of moving towards a permanent culture of the future.
Socialism for the rich and capitalism for the poor
How come we seem to have socialism for the rich and capitalism for the poor.
Thrifty times series: Keeping Chickens
How to keep chickens as part of future ecological local food supply.
Experimental permaculture: The pond flower
How a permaculture flower pond can help pollinator insects in your garden.
Film: Permaculture allotment plot project update: April 2012
The development of a permaculture plot with a future of scarcity in mind.
Thrifty times series: wine making and beer brewing
How to make wine and beer at home within the context of localized low impact future.
Allotment tips and Diary: 25rd March 2012
looks at the progress of my allotment two plots as I move them towards a permaculture system for the future.
Sharing your surplus to create abundance
How sharing fruit cuttings can provide a large volume of sustainable fruit in an area.
Thrifty times series: One pot cooking
How one pot cooking can play a part in sustainable and permanent culture of the future.
African keyhole garden
This piece looks at the African keyhole garden as a growing structure for a future permanent culture.
Living the Permaculture way
What does it mean to live a permaculture way of life, read our experience and thoughts on this.
Retrofitting the Mind: Holistic thinking for a permanent culture
How can how we think help us move towards the development of a better world.
Fallowfield Secret Garden Project
Gavin Pate of the Fallowfield Secret Garden describes the community permaculture project that is developing.
Film: Satish Kumar – Reverential Ecology Talk
Satish Kumar explains reverential ecology, what is our relationship to nature and how should we think about our place in the world, watch this film to see how reverential ecology approaches this questions.
Film: The Peace Chiefs
Tim Mac Macartney explains how the Native American wisdom can be used to hep us transition towards a better future, inspiring and thought provoking film of his talk at sunrise off grid festival.
The struggle
How our actions can have a very effect as we move away from the old order of capitalism and exploitation towards a permanent culture of the future.
We need your help to build a Permanent Culture Now can you recommend us to your friends
We need your help to build the Permanent Culture Now Project, can you spare a couple of minutes to tell your friends about us, we’ve made it as easy as possible for you to do – cheers Mike and Steve
Check out our new site and our future plans
First up a big thank you to all the people who have used the site up until now, we hope you like what we have done and we hope you will continue to help us all move to wards a permanent culture, through developing a fairer, sustainable and more just future. So whats...
Permaculture pioneers: Patrick Whitefield
A profile of Patrick Whitefield the foremost temperate permaculture teacher and his importance in the development of a future permanent culture.
Synergy: The Permaculture design software tool
Synergy is the name of a new permaculture software design tool that is in development, this tool will assist with permaculture planning and design, read more to find out about it.
Allotment tips and diary: 27th Feb 2012
This piece is about Converting an allotment plot into a perennial permaculture growing area, and how this method can help to develop a more permanent culture in the future.
Film: Bees and Permaculture Article – Brigit Strawbridge
Brigit Strawbridge explains how bees can be integrated into a permaculture design, loads of tips and information on beekeeping and permaculture.
Permaculture pioneers: Masanobu Fukuoka
Find out about the work of Masanobu Fukuoka and it relevance in the development of a permanent culture.
Permaculture pioneers: David Holmgren
Find out about the work and contributions of David Holmgren in developing permaculture ideas.
Permaculture pioneers: Bill Mollison
Find out about Permaculture pioneer Bill Mollison, and the importance of his work set against a background of peak resources and climate change
Another seedy Saturday
A description of our seed swap event this year, and how they can be geared towards dealing with climate change.
Allotment tips and diary: New season seed sowing, Feb 2012
Tips on which seeds to sow in the month of February.
Discovering Ruskin College Oxford
An experience of Ruskin College and why it is a great place to study, also links application process for the College.
The true origins of the credit crunch
The origins of the credit crunch, want to understand why it happened, the jargon and the ideologies that drove the financial crisis, then read this now!
Guide to Planting Perennial Plants
Guide to planting perennial seeds/plants in a temperate climate.
Allotment Tips and Diary: Jan 2012
Preparation work for the coming gardening season.
Food Transition Now
A crucial part of transition to a permanent culture is to develop a food strategy and new ways of providing food, read here to find out more
Permaculture principles
Permaculture principles are key to permaculture, find out about them here and how they apply to real world situations and can be used to develop a permanent culture.
Film: Hidden Histories: The Captain Swing riots
Captain Swing was the name used to sign letters that were delivered to land and farm owners as a means of protesting against the starvation and poverty that new grain threshing machines were creating. Read to find out about Captain Swing and more about why it’s still relevant today.
Guerrilla gardening
Find out about guerrilla gardening and why it is important for a sustainable future.
Stop Online Piracy Act is an attack on our internet freedoms
The Stop Online Piracy Act is an attack on our internet freedoms and needs to be stopped. It is about the censorship of the Internet and controlling the information we have access to. Why should multinational corporations have the power to moderate a common resource, read this article to find out more.
Social ecology
A basic description of Murray Bookchin’s social ecology and its importance in a world that is in transition.
12 Step programme for Big Business and Governments
12 step programme for governments, capitalists and the ruling class to wean them off accumulation of money and profit and to make amends for the damage they have done.
Are Governments attempting to stop citizens from growing their own food?
Here we look at some of the legislation that is geared towards curbing people growing their own food.
Film: Seattle Solidarity Network how to setup and run a solidarity network
Film of a presentation put on by Seattle Solidarity Network on how to setup and run a solidarity network, solidarity networks are cooperatives of people who get together to support each other against dodgy, landlords, employers, institutions in order to make sure their rights are upheld and they are treated fairly.
Film: Avoiding Burnout when doing Activism Workshop
When you are involved in Activism, it is all to easy to be swept along by issues, feel depressed when everything can seem so hopeless. Mike offers some practical advice on how to look after yourselves and others.
Allotment tips and Diary: Winter Solstice
General allotment activities during the winter months.
Film: Resilient Farms Conference
Interesting debate on the future and resilience of farming and food production, sustainability of food production, supermarkets and local food production.