The International Permaculture Collaborative Laboratory is a network of individuals that aims to enhance the effectiveness of the global permaculture movement.
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CoLab Podcast - Series 2, Episode 5
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The Permaculture CoLab Podcast Project would like to introduce: Fikile Marbel Vilakazi-Alberts of The African Landless Permaculturists Project, for the fifth episode in this series.
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As we listen to Fikile in this podcast we start to learn about the project she is helping to develop and deliver, The African Landless Permaculturists Project firstly embarks on research to determine the barriers traditional indigenous healers encounter when accessing land for growing food and growing traditional plant medicines.
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The second stage of the project will highlight the opportunities and processes to access this land, the costs and relevant laws, learning from successful low-capital permaculturists and land gatekeepers.
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For your listening pleasure, tune in and learn about this great project.
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Introducing "Books for a Future": A Growing Resource for Sustainable Learning
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The European Permaculture Network (EuPN) just introduced "Books for a Future", a curated list of publications supporting sustainable and regenerative practices. Initially selected to cover key themes, this evolving resource allows EuPN members to add books to the list, flag valuable titles, and share their suggested books on their profiles. The list is dynamically sorted based on what is recommended the most.
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By contributing to this shared library of knowledge, members help build a resource that reflects the diversity and depth of our community’s experience. Explore the list, share your insights, and help grow this collective effort for a sustainable future.
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Funding Opportunity: Regenerative Communities Fund
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ECOLISE are launching their Regenerative Communities Fund (RCF), through the Funding Fairer Futures (FFF) project. They have created this video to continue promoting the first call of the RCF, to get as many fitting applications as possible by 7 March 2025.
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ECOLISE will fund 5 National Hubs in 10 European countries (Croatia, Finland, France, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, and Spain). They are looking for organisations with an established track record in supporting grassroots and community-led initiatives, ideally at the national level. They welcome applications from any organisation that aligns with ECOLISE’s values and objectives in community-led support and the FFF sub-granting and campaigning objectives.
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Charting a route for online RC trainings in a complex and busy international network - from the CoLab Blog
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How do we break down barriers to mental and emotional resilience while strengthening our capacity for regenerative action? Over the past year, Andrew Langford, with support from Vida Ashmole and Gaia U International, has been pioneering an innovative approach to Re-evaluation Counseling (RC) training for members of the International Permaculture CoLab.
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Initially launched as a structured online course, the training faced unexpected challenges in participant engagement. But rather than abandon the effort, Andrew and the team adapted—shifting to a personalized one-to-one model that allows Colab members to learn RC fundamentals at their own pace. The results? Rapid progress, deeper healing, and the formation of powerful peer-to-peer support networks.
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In his latest blog post, Andrew shares insights into this evolution, how it aligns with permaculture principles of adaptability and mutual care, and why RC could be a transformative tool for you.
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Participate & Learn about Permaculture Impact: Measuring and Sharing Your Achievements
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We are happy to support Permaculture Impact a new learning platform designed to help permaculture projects measure and communicate their impact in simple, relevant and achievable ways.
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With free self-paced Action Learning courses, step-by-step guidance to create an evaluation plan, and tools to build an Impact Portfolio, this platform makes it easier for projects to showcase their achievements.
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Plus, a growing community of practitioners is sharing insights and experiences to support each other.
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We’re looking for projects to join this movement and help amplify permaculture’s impact. Please help us share within your networks.
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Diversity and Decolonization
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The International Permaculture CoLab recognises that permaculture history, ethics, principles and practices have deep roots in many indigenous cultures.
This section of our newsletter is dedicated to addressing gaps in knowledge, highlighting resources and important work. We seek to promote, share and support diversity and decolonization projects, organisations and shared knowledge around the world that are aligned with our vision of a socially just world where we live in harmony with nature.
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Dismantling Racism and White Supremacy Culture
On Network Weaver, you can gain access to a working bibliography of resources for dismantling racism and white supremacy culture.
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“We must center dismantling white supremacy culture in our networks in order to become networks that shift the system toward liberation for all people. Effectively addressing racism, and other forms of domination like patriarchy and ableism, are not add-ons to our work in networks but rather the place we must start! “
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Resource of the Month
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Inclusive Writing in Permaculture
- A Handbook to Simple and Respectful Communication -
Have you ever thought about how to reflect the sustainable and harmonious systems we strive to
create in the way we communicate? Inclusive writing ensures that our ideas are understandable,
respectful, and accessible to all readers, regardless of their background, abilities, or language skills.
In this handbook you can explore Key Principles of Inclusive Writing and how to apply them.
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The resource is in English, French & Spanish.
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Written by Mayi Lekuona
Mayi is a Basque permaculture designer and diploma tutor at the Academia de Permacultura Ibera
(https://academiapermaculturaibera.org). She is the co-founder of Maïa Permaculture Cooperative (www.maiapermaculture.com) where she applies integrated systems design thinking and permaculture ethics to promote nature-friendly, regenerative lifestyles by designing sustainable
spaces based on permaculture, training and empowering agents of transformation, and facilitating participatory processes to promote community transformation.
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