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Permaculture Collaborative Laboratory is an international network of individuals that aims to enhance the effectiveness of the global permaculture movement.
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What's going on
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Next Steps Project
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The Next Steps Project has successfully secured funding for its second year. Hurray! This means that the International Permaculture CoLab can continue to support a wide variety of research, including on the ground responses to climate change.
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We can continue trying to make the permaculture global movement more visible through our website, social media channels, the newsletter, and the podcast, as well as a permaculture map that is in progress.
We will keep growing our funding database, which is free to access for all. We will continue to build on research about how to support permaculture gatherings, events, and convergences. The funding will allow us to continue to offer training and workshops.
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We will continue to offer community led funding through the Emergent Festival and the Diversity and Decolonization pot. To read more about all that was achieved during the first year of the Next Steps Project, click below for the full report.
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Colab Podcast - Episode 6
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In the sixth episode of the CoLab podcast, we spoke to Clement Mathorwmasen from Ghana. He grew up on the streets and many people helped him to create a new life. He wanted to find a way to give back to the community and find a purpose. When Clement was assisting a local community to set up a water system, young people started coming to him, and Dream Village grew up organically.
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Clement set up a college for young people who were left behind by the education system. They teach sustainable agriculture as well as business and marketing. They also train small-holding farmers in permaculture practices. Dream Village has built an eco-village using sustainable materials where they grow local crops using agroforestry.
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PermaPuheet Volume 4
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PermaPuheet offers talks on permaculture. The fourth season of this online lecture and discussion series started on Thursday 18th January. If you sign up now, you can watch both the previous and the upcoming episodes. Most sessions start with a lecture followed by a Q&A.
This season features some regular CoLab contributors, including Aimee Fenech, Aline VaMo, and Kathy Otto. There are talks on digital permaculture, permaculture art, permaculture in science, and more.
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Oxford Real Farming Conference
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All of the talks from the Oxford Real Farming Conference 2024 are now available to view on YouTube. It was a great event, full of dialogue, inspiration, learning and actionable insights. The "Women Feed the World" talk was particularly inspiring - this showcases a movement of women farmers practising agroecology and reshaping the narrative of agriculture in India.
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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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Survival International
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Survival International exist to prevent the annihilation of tribal peoples and to give them a platform to speak to the world so they can bear witness to the genocidal violence, slavery and racism they face on a daily basis. By lobbying the powerful we help defend the lives, lands and futures of people who should have the same rights as other contemporary societies.Their vision is a world where tribal peoples are respected as contemporary societies and their human rights protected.
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We have removed the images of this newsletter in order to reduce our digital footprint.
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