whole systems design

Permaculture Womens Guild

Native stories about natural spirits which comprise the reality of things can help us a lot in thinking in regenerative terms.

Permaculture Womens Guild

Lambing indoors is easier to deal with emergencies quickly. It also protects the newborn lambs from foxes.

Permaculture Womens Guild

In working on a specific part of a social design I realized there is no way to design something in which a considered minority is excluded.

Permaculture Womens Guild

Dying Creatively: Using permaculture design to improve how we die

Permaculture Womens Guild

Integrity dynamics and identity

Permaculture Womens Guild

By Gudrun Cartwright As a woman in my late forties, I am definitely approaching menopause. I feel in that ‘peri’ state. Even though I am perpetually altered by chemical hormones, due to suffering from pre-menstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD). My doctor tells me I can’t be feeling this because I am on the pill, but I know my hormones are still there. Just masked. I feel them every month as I move through my cycle. And I am also childfree. Purposefully so. It’s not that I didn’t want children. For many years I did. But for my husband and I, we…

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By Dido Dunlop Our hearts and outer world grow hearty together To restore Mother Nature, and grow tomatoes in our cities, we must redesign our inner gardens. New ways will only hold strong if we regenerate our inner culture too. What are our inner tomatoes? In meditation we cultivate all sorts of interesting plants in mind and heart. Kindness, love for life, resilience, humour, steadiness through trouble. Mother Nature’s Elements I’m a meditation teacher and climate activist. I grew up in the New Zealand bush. I began meditating to find the ‘bush’ feeling in the city. My first teacher taught us to…