Encouraged by Greening the North, Paul Gosling with Foreword by Jonathon Porritt and Endnote by Rianne ten Veen.

Interested in cultural transformation, sustainability and downshifting? LoLA is a social network for sharing stories, inspiration & advice for living sustainably, downshifting or preparing to go bush.

One of Britain's leading adventurers, Benedict Allen, is to open the Indigenous Perspectives Conference on Monday 12th October. Allen is the author of 11 books, but is probably best known for his TV programmes of exploration and endurance. His first-hand experience of indigenous people in jungle, tundra and desert qualifies him to speak with authority and warmth at this one-day conference at the Pierian Centre.

Uncivilisation will be a festival full of interesting stuff. Expect to get your world-view a little shaken and leave inspired. Uncivilisation 2011 takes place in Hampshire on the weekend on 19 August.

The Farm:Shop in Dalston is an ecosystem in a building. It's worth a visit to just look around, but on Sat 23 July you can get a guided tour with one of their eco-engineer founders. Tickets are £10 and the tour starts at noon.

This book aims to increase awareness about the current state of our environment and Islamic injunctions to play our part in protecting it as guardians of Creation ("We appointed you viceroys in the earth after them, that We might see how you behave.", Yunus/Jonah [10] 14). It includes some disconcerting facts about the current state of affairs, but hopes this will serve as inspiration for positive action (oftentimes saving money at the same time).

Information about allotments in North Staffordshire.

This leaflet lists the actvities you can get involved in at Dove Stone, near Oldham.
There is some general information on the types of actvity and also a guide to what time of year each actvity will take place.

Get in touch with us to find out when these exciting activities are taking place and to book your place.

Nature is amazing - help us keep it that way.

Directory_of_Activities_RSPB_Dove_Stone.pdf

This is my website containing the online portfolio for my Diploma in applied Permaculture design.

I currently run a selection of courses that accommodate different levels of learning in permaculture. These range from taster days & introductory weekends, to full design courses (90hrs) that provide participants with an opportunity to learn about & to start to apply the principles & tools. I also run more specialist courses for design course graduates, that advance permaculture learning & provide tools & skills for teaching & facilitation.

These pages constitute a trimmed down version of my Portfolio for the Diploma in Applied Permaculture Design (completed in September 2003). Here you will find plenty of detail about the process of designing both land & non-land based projects, plus many more pages detailing other Permaculture work that I did between completing my design course in 1996 & graduating in 2003.

Josef Davies-Coates, founder of United Diversity has kindly let us know his top places to learn green skills.

There are lots of good courses being run at 3 of my favourite places:
http://www.ragmans.co.uk/ (many, including the one I'm doing now run
by http://patrickwhitefield.co.uk/)
http://www.radfordmillfarm.co.uk/
http://www.embercombe.co.uk/

Been told they do really great stuff at: http://www.agroforestry.co.uk/

In London there is: http://www.naturewise.org.uk

Graham Burnett does lots of courses too: http://www.spiralseed.co.uk/

One in three children do not know what chips are made from! This is more than a little worrying to me.

C.R.A.S.H - A Postcapitalist A-Z

Take part in a free course combining art, activism and permaculture!

We are inviting creative resisters, unemployed workers and art activists to take part in our latest project - C.R.A.S.H: A Postcapitalist A to Z - in London’s financial district in June 2009.

The C.R.A.S.H Course is free two week long (1-14 June) intensive training combining permaculture design, art activist tactics and skills for building radically ecological and deeply democratic communities.

C.R.A.S.H is part of 'Two Degrees' Artsadmin’s festival of art and climate change.

Hi all,

Would anyone be interested in getting together a
group of people to place organic wholesale food
orders? Many wholesalers will accept a minimum
order of £400 or so placed by a private group and
you can get huge savings on pantry items such as
tinned tomatoes, beans, pasta, oils, grains,
spices, wine, ecological cleaning products....

Please email me if you're interested!

Thanks