Book Review: The Transition Timeline for a local, resilient future Shaun Chamberlin Forward by Rob Hopkins 190 pp pbk Chelsea Green 2009 The follow-up to Rob Hopkins’ seminal The Transition Handbook uses the method of “backcasting” from an envisioned future from which we create a timeline of how the transition to a more local, resilient [...]
We were fortunate enough to have Irish Times columnist John Gibbons attend our last permaculture course in Cloughjordan, and he had a great write up in his column last week: Permaculture offers one vision of a future where human ingenuity and adaptability will allow us to survive, and indeed thrive, in the age after oil, [...]
I just wired up a new photovoltaic array- an auspicious time to do it on the longest- and so far the sunniest- day of the year. Delivering a cool 600 watts of raw solar power at 24volts, the impressive bank of solar electric panels represents a true powering up here at Derryduff. The panels cost [...]
I returned to the Dunhill Eco-Park in Waterford at the weekend for a follow-up to the permaculture course I did there last September. This time we were joined by 20 participants who learned about permaculture gardening techniques and forest garden design. We then constructed a Mandala Garden based on the design by one of Bill [...]
Book Review- Future Scenarios How Communities Can adapt to Peak Oil and Climate Change David Holmgren Chelsea Green 2009 When I first saw David Holmgren’s Future Scenarios talk and slide at a permaculture design course in Slovenia in 2005 I was still quite new to the concept of peak oil and listened transfixed at what [...]
As the measles epidemic in Britain gathers pace, and the woo-woos who still do not acknowledge that their refuasal to vaccinate is not because of some higher spiritual knowledge, but simply ignorance brought about by bad science and an irresponsible media, this account by Roald Dahl on the dangers of measles makes sober reading. It [...]
Recent comments on last years’ post on eating bamboo shoots came just as the new season is here- and we have been munching our way through this very useful vegetable with gusto. Martin Crawford demonstrates harvesting bamboo shoots on his excellent new DVD- “A Forest Garden Year. This really is a [...]
Here are a couple of photos of a new yurt I made and set up for for Cearbhuil up near mallow- who got it to have her new baby in in a few weeks time! Hope it all goes really well and good luck with everything Cearbhuil. Quite something to think that the first thing [...]