The permaculture blog for city-dwellers
Keen to learn how to live more lightly in the city? Me too.
For more than a decade, I’ve explored permaculture at the urban scale — via small-space food gardening, low-impact home renovations, a city honesty stall and my own Permaculture Marketing business.
Created in 2012, this permaculture blog explores what’s possible when we city folk embrace more regenerative, connective and calm lifestyles. Because we don’t all want to move to the country.
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Learn how to apply permaculture design to 4 key digital marketing tactics, helping your ethical small business grow sustainably with more integrity and less stress.
Worn out by the exhausting churn of chaotic world news, I found myself increasingly retreating to the screen-based monotony of TV and streaming services. Here's what happened when I gave all that up for a month.
The 12 permaculture principles are practical thinking tools that can help you make more ethical business and marketing decisions. This 13-part series explores them all in depth.
"Green" bags aren't so green – they're often made of polypropylene, a type of plastic derived from petroleum. Here's how to make your own tote bag instead, using secondhand or vintage fabric.
In this age of AI and automate-everything, here's a counterpoint to the story that more tech tools = better business. Explore the lean, permaculture-infused approach I take to building my ethical business toolkit.
Whether you're brand new to permaculture or looking to deepen your existing skills and knowledge, my 'best permaculture books' list offers 25 excellent options for your to-read pile, for up-skilling in the garden and home.
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The three permaculture ethics of Earth Care, People Care and Fair Share are a universally applicable moral code helping you live and work more sustainably — so they're a brilliant philosophical framework for ethical business and marketing. Here's how to apply them.
Feeling the economic pinch? Here are some frugally fun ideas for hanging out with mates without spending a fortune — which also reduces consumerism and lowers your environmental impact.
This 6-page magazine feature story covers how to plan your own permaculture garden using my simplified four-stage design process: observe, design, implement, iterate.
With a few simple yet strategic permaculture methods, you can grow an edible summer garden that thrives even in very hot and dry weather.
From edible weeds to wild mushrooms, free food is growing all around us — you just need to know where and what to look for. Here are 8 South Aussie experts who can help you get started.
Every season, I take a paid week of deep rest. These quarterly rest weeks restore energy, prevent burnout and make my business more sustainable. Here's how I used permaculture to design this regular rest system.
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Learn how to apply permaculture design to 4 key digital marketing tactics, helping your ethical small business grow sustainably with more integrity and less stress.
They're nurses, business mentors, digital marketers, finance coaches, artists and more. Meet 29 folks applying permaculture in diverse businesses.
Since January 2024, I've embraced a four-day work week within my ethical marketing business. These structures and systems make it possible and sustainable.
