For forty years David Holmgren has been part of a worldwide movement of subtle disruption through co-originating permaculture. His latest book is a handbook on how to apply permaculture principles to the living arrangements most of us occupy today: suburbia.
Subtle Disruptors
Kyrstie’s book, Grow Just One Thing, is a perfect way to describe subtle disruption. If we are able to make one small change, the benefits of that change can be disproportionate to the change, and enable us to bring many other positive things into our lives. Kyrstie’s way of doing this is to encourage all of us to start growing one thing in our garden or house.
This family’s way of living is an intentional response to the context the find themselves in. A context where technology is seen as saviour and Earth as foe. Where things like slowing down, reusing, and connecting to land are inferior to doing more, buying more, and putting distance between us and the dirt.
Its easy to critique a system from the sidelines without knowing too much about it. But what about really understanding that system, and then finding ways to use the system for good? This is the work of Andrew Macleod.
Suburban football clubs, the Australian variety, are an amazing microcosm of their local culture, a place that brings people together but where many of their unconscious prejudices and misgivings are given a place to camp and grow. Jamin talks about what he is doing with clubs so that sport can serve a far greater purpose than it currently does within local communities.