Creativity

Emergent Herbalism; plants, people, and culture

The cross-cultural use of herbs and herbal medicine has experienced a significant resurgence in the past several decades. This emergent herbalism has become a popular method of alternative medicine as well as a profitable commercial industry.

How to Compost Your Pain

By Dido Dunlop (part of a talk at our New…

What is Ecofeminism? In a nutshell — how to save the world

What is Ecofeminism? The five elements are one way to explain.

Reasons to be cheerful

By Gudrun Cartwright Reasons to be cheerful In my life,…

A survival guide to teenage drama that just gets worse with age

A survival guide to teenage drama to make sure you’re not depleting your renewable resources to the point your internal landscape turns into a barren land (at least as friendships are concerned.)

Living on the Edges

One of the many things that I connect with in…

How to combat writer’s anxiety: top tips from permaculture women writers.

Writing makes my stomach hurt. By Laura Bee I love writing.…

Using Cultural Emergence for Social and Environmental Change

What is Cultural Emergence?

Design Thinking: Cultivating a Designer’s Mind

Design thinking, be intentional and present with your process.

Fertile Resistance and Reconciliation; An Indigenous Woman’s Response to the Recent Global Corporate Seed Mergers

The global seed commons and corporate seed mergers

Permaculture Design: Outside the Box…and Into Nature

Get unstuck and wild with your own permaculture design

Decolonizing seeds and the feminine side of things — a conversation with Rowen White

Decolonizing seeds and protecting diversity in the seed sovereignty movement.

Waste Not Want Not: Twelve Rs of Recycling

Here are Twelve Rs of recycling to help guide you on your way to cutting down on waste. It may seem a simple goal, but it can be eye opening, and have surprising repercussions in all aspects of your life.

Women in Permaculture: Why should you learn permaculture from women?

By Silvia Di Blasio “I raise up my voice — not so…

Strategies for urban land access

Urban land access can be difficult but there are ways to get past this barrier.

On permaculture, entitlement, and that pesky third ethic: all aboard the elephant in the room

By Heather Jo Flores “Contact with the soil reminds us…

Design anything with the GOBRADIME permaculture design process

An easy, circular permaculture design process for gardens, community projects,…

Bringing Nature Inside

Some ideas for improving access to nature connection if you, or someone you are close to, has an illness or disability meaning they find it difficult to be outdoors and need to bring nature inside.