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The aim of this work is a cross-disciplinary integration of ideas specifically relevant to permaculture design and the physical structure of human settlements. although this work is ambitious in scope, I feel this is an important element of the writing, to present an overview such that the reader is able to see the inter-relations of many ideas relevant to design. This is a synthesis of a kind which I believe has so far not been attempted.

A blog post with lots to explore on sustAinAble city design

I am particularly struck by the idea of decomposing problems into sub-problems whilts paying attention to the intersection of these so that a sub-team can work on a bounded project and konw that what they solve will link well to problems on all sides ... I have looked at the Ushahidi software a number of times but don't have the capacity to run it or fully understand it -- a joint project anyone?

I really liked this video showing the process of "Holistic Pattern Mining" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plpwld6dIms&feature=share&list=PLJgEdsvavJ1Un66I1Pf--cJEOunbjCFBp I am also wondering about Morphological analysis for solving these complex issues. Does anyone have any experience with it? - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morphological_analysis_%28problem-solving%29 I would be interested in working on such a project.

Agroecologists therefore collAborAte with trAditionAl producers And AgroecologicAl movements. PermAculture is one such AgroecologicAl movement, with A broAd internAtionAl distribution And A unique ApproAch to system de- sign. Despite A high public profile, permAculture hAs remAined relAtively isolAted from scientific reseArch. Though the potentiAl contribution of permAculture to AgroecologicAl trAnsition is greAt, it is limited by this isolAtion from science, As well As from oversimplifying clAims, And the lAck of A cleAr definition. Here, we review scientific And populAr permAculture literAture.

One of the best books i read this year. give look in the "look inside link" on amazon on the first pages of the book to get a sense . a must to people learning what we do

Looks fascinating and very good for reconfiguring our view of ourselves towards a better modesty - however on USa amazon it is not available (paperback out of print and no Kindle edition) - would love to read it so I will tack it down elsewhere ... Thanks for posting it ..

Endless Sky, L3C is a for-profit business with a social mission. The mission of Endless Sky L3C is to provide food for food banks, a market for food producers, and healthy food for schools and other institutions. Endless Sky can help fill the need for more food resources at food banks and pantries by providing locally grown and processed healthy food for distribution to those families who need to use their local food pantry.

"Here is a brief overview of the main ideas:     a model of Science Process (showing its coherent strategies for thinking-and-action), developed for my PhD project, was later generalized into a broader Design Process that describes the flexibly improvised creative-and-critical thinking we use for almost everything in life, when we solve problems by designing better products, activities, strategies, and theories."    

PDC syndrome can involve one or more of the following symptoms:  a belief that no till or mulching or forest gardening or polycultures or mob-stocking or chicken tractors or perennial crops or compost teas or various other techniques must invariably be practiced in preference to any alternatives  a belief that whatever Bill Mollison or David Holmgren or a handful of other authors have written is above criticism

Follow the story of how a group of engaged citizens in Bangalore transforms a polluted urban lake into a co-managed, healthy ecosystem with rich biodiversity.

Designers often speak of design as a process. Typically, design thinking leads to design making, which leads to artifacts. Yet the design process also leads to something more-to new knowledge. Thus, we might characterize designing as a form of learning

Permaculture teacher and author aranya, talking about the value of using a design process, to a packed hall at the London Permaculture Festival on 21st July 2012. For more details of aranya's book and courses see http://www.aranyagardens.co.uk

World news ... Excellent summary of means whereby which an aliiance between a right wing and an owning class uses it's combined power bases to attempt to destablize democracy in the name of 'democracy'

This link refers to part of the evidence for the existence of the Patrix which we will be looking at later in the OR

a presentation with a good list of design frameworks

Transition management can be described as a new governance-model based on complex systems´ thinking and is aimed at facilitating and directing processes of societal change in the direction of sustainability.

Mahara has a very pluggable architecture, which allows people to add their own artefacts, blocks for views, methods for authentication and more. Here is a list of plugins developed by members of the community.

The Permanent Culture Now Project is an outlet for the knowledge we have built up from decades of thinking about ways to address the major problems facing ourselves and future generations. We have now reached the point where we believe that there needs to be a move towards a Permanent Culture.

Beginning in 1948, a group of educators undertook the task of classifying education goals and objectives.  The intent was to develop a classification system for three domains: the cognitive, the affective, and the psychomotor.  Work on the cognitive domain was completed in the 1950s and is commonly referred to as Bloom's Taxonomy of the Cognitive Domain

sync (backup) all your book marks to a free online account at xmarks which allows you to share entire bookmark folders with others using a urls or rss feed.

This is cool because you can post RSS feed of your bookmark folders on your OP so they should be updated as when ever you sync your Xmark account. ;)

I lead a diverse variety of workshops and other offerings - and not just about challenging corporate rule. I also have many decades of experience leading workshops which help people come to terms with their difficult feelings about the current state of our world, from despair and rage to grief and numbness. as well as teaching active listening skills to activists. I would thoroughly enjoy working with you to create a special event in your community. Please get in touch!

Have been drawing allot of inspiration from this one! Particularly love the idea of a cutting board that leads foods scraps into a methane digester. Definitely need a better kitchen composting system that is easy and effective for the modern kitchen design. Perhaps for people who are living in cities or tight areas and do not have land to use the compost effectively.

An intresting pAssAge from the Articel thAt reminds me Also of the permAculture zones: Some cultures do not perceive time As An exclusively lineAr phenomenon And their time cAlendArs consist of multiple And simultAneously existing time cAtegories such As 'prActicAl time', 'sociAl time', 'religious time', 'dreAm time', etc. MAny Indigenous people And A number of non- Indigenous cultures do not perceive time As lineAr And describe it As hAving A 'circulAr' or 'cyclic' form. According to such A conceptuAlisAtion of time, time is perceived As 'stAtic' And the individuAl person is 'in the centre of time' (i.e. surrounded by concentric 'time circles'). Life events Are plAced in time Along And Across the 'time circles' According to their relAtive importAnce to the individuAl And his or her respective community (i.e. more importAnt events Are plAced closer to the individuAl And Are perceived As being closer in time; unimportAnt or irrelevAnt events occupy peripherAl time circles, Although some of them could hAve hAppened very recently According to lineAr or 'prActicAl' concept time).