Reducing our dependency on money: an introduction
How we can reduce our dependency on money by looking at other ways of trading and working.
Film: Bonnington Square (Housing Cooperative)
Bonnington square is cooperative housing community established in Vauxhall in London in the early 1980’s after people who had been squatting the derelict buildings decide to legally take on the properties.
An urban forest garden Hackney shows us how it’s done
A brief history of hackney forest garden, which explains their usefulness and diversity.
Film: November 30th Strike Films uncovering the pensions myths and highlighting the attacks on the general population
Part one pensions myths. Who really gets the gold plated pensions. Part two: The strikes are not just about pensions there is a load of terrible attacks on the lives of people in general by the ConDem government in their drive to shrink and privatise the public...
Allotment tips and diary: December
general allotment activities that happen during the winter months.
Film: Organising your own seed swap event
Learn how to put on a seed swap event and why they are important for moving towards a Permanent Culture.
Permaculture ethics: Part 1 – Earth Care
The principles of permaculture are very important for a permanent culture of the future, read this to find out why.
Heirloom Seeds
Heirloom seeds are very important for a sustainable food growing future.
The Promise
How the promise of cheap oil keeps our society operating.
Exploring models of Education: Popularist Education
Looks at popularist and critical multiculturalist models of education within the context of a permanent culture.
Allotment Diary and tips: Winters Coming!
General allotment tasks that take place as autumn moves in the winter.
Film: Ian Bone Talk ‘1919 Revolutionaries’
Ian Bone presents a rollicking ride through the year of 1919 a Year of Revolution.
Allotment tips and diary – October
general autumn allotment activities and tasks.
Organic food production can feed the world!
How high yielding low carbon fruit and vegetable production in wales could feed lots of people.
FIlm: Nicola Peel Talk- Amazon / How One Person Can Make a Difference
How the actions of one person can change the world.
Punky Reggae Party: Music in alternative culture
Reggae music and Punk rock, a musical synergy as a soundtrack to alternative culture.
What are Weeds?
Some of the plants that we see as weeds are useful as food stuffs and medicines.
Allotment Diary and tips week 2 (25/9/2011)
allotment activities at the end of the yearly growing season.
Agency Versus Structure
Agency and structure are the two biggest issues when it comes to social change, can agency have an impact on structure or does structure define our agency, read more to find out.
Freeganism and urban scavenging
How freeganism and scavenging is a useful way of using discarded usable resources.
Allotment Diary week and tips (20/9/2011)
Cropping food at an allotment plot, and carrying out soil repair.
Film: Transition UK Talk By Rob Hopkins at Sunrise Off Grid Festival 2011
How Transition Towns can change the world.
An experiment in vertical gardening
How I used one plant to grow another up the stem and yield crops from both.
Film: Resilience debate from Off Grid Festival
What would a resilient society look like and can it even be achieved?
To Pee or not to Pee
How to use urine as a plant food and compost starter.
Energy
How can we live within our energy means on the one planet that we have.
Permanent Culture Now who and what is it?
If not now, then when, if not us then who? The Permanent Culture Now Project is an outlet for the knowledge we have built up from decades of thinking about ways to address the major problems facing ourselves and future generations. We have now gotten to the point...
Hit the road
Personal account and reflection of time spent in the new age traveller movement.
Why Education is more than what you are taught, but how you are taught.
The structure of Education is shaped by the capitalist society in order to replicate it.
Permaculture and synergy
How can human beings and nature create synergy.