Reading Time: 4 minutesHave you ever had a job where you had to sacrifice your values for money? Where you were doing things that went against your beliefs, but the job was paying your mortgage and living expenses, so you just hung onto it? I can wholeheartedly relate to that… During my career as a geologist, I had […]

Reading Time: 5 minutes“Getting paying clients is the key to starting your own permaculture design business; Everything else is secondary.” – Pete Widin I wish I’d been told this when I was in school, about to enter the REAL world as a tender would-be landscape architect. My idea of a design business was the day to day mess […]

Reading Time: 12 minutesAfter all, that’s the dream, right? Forget the well-paid 9-to-5 job, six bedroom house and the other trappings of material wealth. Sure, it’s nice to have them, but we permaculturists know that real wealth is clean air, clear water and healthy nutritious food, not piling up stuff and then dying with it. We want to […]

Reading Time: 9 minutesBy 2050, 70% of the world’s population will be urban, and in more developed regions of the world, these numbers are expected to reach close to 90%. The number of cities and mega-cities with more than 10 million people is slowly but surely increasing in number. You can catch a glimpse of this very large […]