Societal fracturing
Our society is going through very challenging times. A large part of the world is in part or full lockdown, and life as we knew it has changed a lot, at least for the...
Category: sustainability
Cycling materials
Column 8 of the Homegrown series. We have never had a big budget on our farm, and a lot of the time have had to “make do” with whatever we were given, found or...
Containers or beds?
Column 5 in Homegrown, Weekend Magazine, Sunshine Coast Daily, by Zaia Kendall Tom and I are lucky to live in paradise and be land custodians. We have been able to plant our vegetables and...
Where to grow
Column 4 in Homegrown, Weekend Magazine, Sunshine Coast Daily, by Zaia Kendall My husband Tom always says that if you want to confuse him, give him a tree for a present. He will take...
Making soil
Column 3 in Home Grown, Weekend Magazine, Sunshine Coast Daily, by Zaia Kendall Making soil We have always had to work with a tight budget. Because of this we always try to make things...
Designing Resilience
Column 1 in Home Grown, weekend magazine, Sunshine Coast Daily, by Zaia Kendall. Design for resilience We have lived on our farm for 15 years now. In that time we have worked with a...
Inventing a new, sustainable future
After the earth has had some relief from our polluting ways, it looks like we are slowly on track to go back to “normal”. However, pre Covid-19 was not normal! This is our chance...
Keeping your sanity in isolation
I have had intermittent stages of depression, stress and anxiety throughout my life. I have had to put processes in place to be able to deal with these times (I do not like medication),...
PermEco: our goals for 2020
PermEco Inc. is an incorporated not for profit organisation founded in 2012 as the Permaculture Research Institute Sunshine Coast Inc. We have had and continue to have a close connection with the Permaculture Research...
Easy guide to improving your footprint
A lot of people would like to do better by this planet but do not know where to start. We have compiled this guide so that you can see what you can do to...
Positive action to encourage positive change
With total ecological collapse imminent (species are dying, landscapes are turning to dust etc) it is important that we the people take positive action for change. It is great that we have had...
Reasons for denial and anger about climate change
Climate change is a much contested issue, but more and more evidence is surfacing now that it is real. Most scientists in the world agree that this unprecedented level of accelerated heating is most...
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