Start Where You are: Discovery at Zone 00
In times when you feel overrun by forces outside of your control, contemplating and designing the life you want to live is important self-care.
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Voices of Women in Permaculture
Rants, opinions, politics, relationships–this section of our magazine hosts a huge diversity of articles from women all over the world.
Teachings of the Thistle
An exploration of an alternative view on a common perennial weed: approaching with curiosity, gratitude and a sense of reciprocity.
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Herbalism and The Great Forgetting
by Matilde Magro Ever think that you might have a…
Explaining regeneration and its expansion beyond the limits of culture
by Matilde Magro There are social, ecological, and spiritual structures…
The role of the farmer in a thriving agro-ecological system
A critical exploration of the concepts of balance and self-sustenance as applied in permaculture and ecological agriculture.
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Rights of Nature
If I had to write the rights of Nature, I’d include these.
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Marina Nobre: Reforestation is more than planting trees.
The seed knows what it does and how it does it.
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Life in symphony
What’s an ecosystem?
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When we don’t know enough, what good does opinion do?
"Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance" --Plato
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Growing Old With Permaculture
How much thought have you given to aging? Using the permaculture design process, consider creating a plan for your elder years.
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A Manifest for the Embodiment of Imperfection
We all want to become better, fitter, happier. As long as we believe in guilt and shame, though, self-improvement is bound to make us suffer.
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Community Building: Social and Spiritual Permaculture for Intentional Communities and Transition Towns
Our ecovillage set up ‘invisible structures’, to build a strong community, to work together well, from practical land care to our deepest vision.
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And then there is food.
Food and water are the baselines of every culture. We will neglect every single thing good about any culture until we understand why people eat and how they eat, and how passed down from generations and generations the “question of food” really is. There is no healing at all until one heals its relationship with food.
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Why It Is So Hard To Love Ourselves
When we struggle with frustrations, overwhelm, anger, anxiety, our family members or keeping our socks together in pairs, there is this one advice we hear often:
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Questioning role-models
I think some of us have given up on trying to reach remaining humans outside of our bubbles.
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What is zone 00 design and why should you start yours?!
I don’t know you, but for me, reading self-development books has always been intensely frustrating.
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What Indigenous spiritual knowledge can teach us about regenerative design
Native stories about natural spirits which comprise the reality of things can help us a lot in thinking in regenerative terms.
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Reappropriating our inherent natural culture
by Matilde Magro Whether you follow me on Medium, Facebook,…
How to learn humility for a better tomorrow
by Matilde Magro Step by step guide of 10 easy…
Lessons From A Tree: Living and Creating With Earth As Play
Am I done with choosing struggle? What would it be like to navigate the unknown with play? This is the story of how a tree showed me a way.
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My 10-Point Plan for Feral Eldership
I only wish to become old if I can also become an elder.
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Embers of Hope: Embracing Life in an Age of Ecological Destruction and Climate Chaos
The future of life on Earth is uncertain and our lifetimes are finite. Consider our own deaths as well as the possibilities of climate catastrophe.
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Watering Our Seeds
There is resilience in everything..in seeds too..and perhaps plants learn resilience as they grow.
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Kindness Circles, surrounding community
It’s interesting how a simple act of kindness can multiply itself into thousands of good deeds in a short time, but how does that happen?
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Spiritual gardening, the way out of suffering.
Ever walked along a Chinese garden, public or private, urban…
For your inspiration: Sabarmatee
A woman and her father gathered their know-how, investments and…
We are Stitch (Let’s be Lilo!)
Stitched up as we are I figure we can Lilo…
Benefits of Purging
Did you know that the primary definition of purging — before involving…
The Right Question
For most of my career as advisor for Results Based…
Approaching menopause as a childfree woman
By Gudrun Cartwright As a woman in my late forties,…
War, what is it good for?
War, what is it good for? We need more compassion and understanding.
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Confronting Shame — The Last Door
By Julia Pereira Dias Shame spits into your romantic dinner.…
Archetypes and the power to transform
By Priya Logan I previously wrote a post about identifying…
Taking stock before the stork: using permaculture to plan with pregnancy
Permaculture approaches to landing during pregnancy. By Priya Logan As…
Plants as Friends and Family Members
Reclaiming our sense of belonging.
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The Best Advice
By Julia Pereira Dias Aren’t we the selfless ones? “My…