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David Holmgren on Permaculture, Business, Resilience and Transition
transitionculture.org - 12/18/2008
David Holmgren on Permaculture, Business, Resilience and Transition
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A while ago now I had a conversation with David Holmgren about how his 12 principles of permaculture might apply to business. It was just an initial exploration, but there was a great deal of useful stuff in it, and prompted by an article by Stefan Geyer in the latest Permaculture Activist ...

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Deep thought - Dec 18
Energy Bulletin - — ... move to more sensible policies. Governments, said leading greens, have a historic opportunity to "climate proof" their economies in response to economic troubles. Obama and Gordon Brown both said that millions of jobs could be created in green building, wind power, solar thermal and other green technologies. ... The consensus is that 2008 was volatile and dangerously unpredictable. But if governments don't change, it may come to be seen as a calm before the storm. (17 December 2008) David Holmgren on Permaculture, Business, Resilience and Transition Rob Hopkins, Transition ...

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