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RetroSuburbia is an extraordinary and magnificently crafted guide on living abundantly in uncertain times. Part manifesto, part manual, this is the book you and I did not realise we were waiting for!
Visiting David Holmgren at his 2-1/2 acre homestead in central Victoria changed my life. I caught a vision of what you might call ‘Permie Paradise’ – a family producing most of their own food and sharing the surplus with friends and neighbors doing likewise in the small Australian town of...
I am personally very excited and moved by this handbook. In my experience, this is the most important book since Bill Mollison's epic Permaculture Designer's Manual. I predict that it will redefine permaculture in the mainstream world and that downshifting permaculture practitioners and transitioners everywhere will love this resource!
There is a moment when I am talking with David Holmgren that I notice a shift in myself. He has been sharing the origins of the concept of permaculture in the 1970s, and how quickly it was picked up by people at the time.
RetroSuburbia is a fascinating and sometimes confronting book about preparing for an expected “energy descent future”. Author David Holmgren believes that collectively as individuals we can foster increased resilience in a rapidly changing world – especially through connecting with like-minded people in our community.
Gordon from Rune Soup talks all things permaculture and Retrosuburbia with David Holmgren.
In many homes worldwide, David Holmgren is a beloved name. As the co-creator of the global permaculture movement, his work has touched millions of lives, and can be seen etched into the gardens of inner city projects, community co-operatives and large-scale farms.
Author, environmental designer and co-originator of the permaculture concept, David Holmgren, joins the team on Greening the Apocalypse to discuss what a RetroSuburban future might look like.
David Holmgren is a passionate activist committed to shaking up the status quo. To his devoted followers – as witnessed at this year’s Sustainable Living Festival in Melbourne – he is the oracle from on high, the rockstar of permaculture. This consummate pedagogue is now fervently espousing his message of...
David Holmgren grows almost everything he eats. He doesn’t own a mobile phone or a television, and most of his clothing is secondhand. He never flies, won’t go to a supermarket and can’t remember his credit card PIN.
Globally recognised ecological thinker, David Holmgren, has identified Seymour as a potential key model for regional community-based ecological renewal.
A major new addition to the permaculture canon, this practical book offers the most complete example of its author’s approach to living so far published, and exemplifies what motivated him to articulate the permaculture thesis with Bill Mollison in the 70s.
Have you ever wanted to live cleaner or smarter? Perhaps grow your own produce, try permaculture or perhaps go completely off-grid?
In the sprawling suburbs of Western Sydney, tucked down the end of a cul de sac in St Claire, is the solar-powered home of Nevin and Linda Sweeney. It sits within a garden that provides them with all the food they need. They have cultivated a lush, edible oasis that...
I am increasingly fascinated by two words I think are vital to our future, but which I see declining in the world around us, “what if?” Navigating a way to a safe, nurturing and liveable future requires our coming together to create What If spaces, places and events where we...
RetroSuburbia gives us a philosophical & practical series of tool-kits on how to change our suburbs, country towns, cities & ourselves - to live, as Paul Hawken says, as if it were a sacred act.
In this interview Morag Gamble explores why David wrote RetroSuburbia, his vision for cities and where he feels we need to put our energy.
RetroSuburbia: it’s not a political manifesto, but it could easily be one, as it links to many of the major social and political issues of our time.
Host Phil Bourne interviews RetroSuburbia designer + case study star Richard Telford, and project manager + editor at large, Beck Lowe.
RetroSuburbia is undoubtedly a tour de force, and it is not too much to say it is also a masterpiece. It represents the distillation of a lifetime of experience by one of our generation’s most acute and original minds. Further, one of our generation’s most untiring observers and practitioners.
Jon's guest is environmental designer, gardener, futurist, and author David Holmgren, co-originator of the permaculture concept (with Bill Mollison). His new book is RetroSuburbia: the downshifter’s guide to a resilient future (Melliodora Publishing).
In his long awaited new book, David Holmgren throws out a challenge to all of us – can we adapt in place, and thrive?
Rather than longing for acreage so you can achieve your self-reliance dreams, Holmgren's long-awaited tome is a blueprint for doing it now, and turning a bog standard suburban backyard into a resilient and productive food garden.
Permaculture co-originator and renowned ecological thinker David Holmgren explores how to activate change and adopt practical solutions for a carbon-positive, low energy future.
Our 1000m2 plot, which we call Tree Elbow, sits on the edge of town, the Central Lake Reserve and the Wombat State Forest in Daylesford, Central Victoria. When we moved here nearly a decade ago the vacant swampy block had only two trees: an oak to the north and a...
This book is dangerous. In its essence, RetroSuburbia invites and inspires us all to stay right where we are. Turning our suburbs upside down, to make the world we want.
Whether it’s a herb pot on the windowsill or tomatoes in the garden, we are being encouraged to grow at least some of our own produce for a healthier and more sustainable lifestyle. In some parts of our cities and towns community gardens are flourishing. Chickens and native bees are...
How are we to live? At a time when changes in everything from the weather to how politics and the economy work, uncertainty barges in, accompanied by fear and society becomes increasingly divided, this is the Big Question.