As we do each year, I (Charlie) just recently drove up and down the east coast of Australia on a Walkabout Permaculture trip: a journey, wandering with intention, between people and projects along the north shores of Sydney. These explorations are essential to keeping in touch with friends, places and projects - some projects that we've designed and helped to create in the past. 

Wandering betwee...

In the world of land regeneration, Australia is famous for permaculture, as coined by Bill Mollison and David Holmgren, but the practice of bush regeneration began to emerge around the same time. Both rooted in the 1970s counterculture, they outlined radically innovative practices of ecological repair in response to widespread damage to the environment. Whilst many people around the world have hea...

Yes, there's such a thing as Ecopsychology!

Just as we have relearnt to be ecological beings (existing in a web of relationships to plants, animals, environment, and energy flow)...we can also remember and relearn that we are just as equally ecopsychological beings.

Ecopsychology is a field of study, a therapeutic technique and a set of ideas that studies and works toward healing the interrelati...

We are in awe of water.

Did you know these amazing scientific facts about water?

• Some of the water on planet Earth originally comes from meteors and arguably also from comets!
• 97% of all water on earth is in the seas 
• 68% of freshwater is in the form of ice in the polar ice caps
• Anomalous expansion of water means water expands when cooled from 4°C to 0°C. This means ice insulates the wat...

WE NEED RADICAL REDESIGN.

This is not the time to ‘snap back to normal’, whatever ‘normal’ is anyway. Through our various teachings, workshops, and consultations it has become clear that many people have not yet realised the deep potential of redesigning in places, spaces and communities. When they do, it is incredibly empowering!

Today seems so full of disaster and crises, both global and perso...