This month we look at the seventh principal of permaculture, and the first that takes a ‘top-down’ approach, looking at the big patterns and detail that should be used to guide the detail of design. In classic permaculture design it is the pattern of nature that should dictate the design. […]
Culture Night 2020 is set to go ahead on Friday September 18th and they are inviting organisations to take part either by holding an event in their local area, or by doing a virtual online event which can be promoted by Culture Night at local and national level. It will come […]
This month we look at our sixth Permaculture design principal ‘Produce No Waste’ and how it might offer some new ideas into the Cool Clon, and perhaps some reflections on how we might have lived this principal naturally during Covid-19 restrictions. Apart from composting food scraps and minimising packaging (think Twig!) […]
I think we all know that the #blacklivesmatter movement must extend beyond the USA. We are not outside, but inside this paradigm of white power, privilege, poverty and abuse, it may be less overt here in Ireland but our direct provision centres show how much work there is to be done. […]
PERMANENT CULTURE Principal #5: Use and Value Renewable Resources Allison Roberts looks at the permaculture principal ‘Use and Value Renewable Resources and explains how from simply line-drying our laundry to using renewable energy to power our homes and businesses, we can all seek out more natural, less-resource intense solutions to […]
PERMANENT CULTURE Principal 4 – Our 10,000 Trees (Apply Self-Regulation and Feedback) Remember those 10,000 trees being planted around Clonakilty – the plan from way back before the lock-down? I wanted to revisit my last theme ‘Obtain a Yield’ with the example of the tree planting, and spoke to Istvan Markuly, […]