talk
february 2009
4:00pm - 4:50pm
Permaculture Reduces Climate Change
Fri 20th February 09 | 4:00pm - 4:50pm
Feast tent
hosted by | Permaculture Melbourne
Permaculture is a very low-energy lifestyle, using nature and small local solutions in all areas of life.
The way we shop, grow food, cook, get around, work and relax has an impact on the entire planet. There are many small actions we can take in our daily lives that make a difference to our energy usage. Growing food in our garden or locally is saving a lot of energy.
We enjoy doing something for our children's future on this planet while we get to work with each other and continually discover new solutions.
Permaculture means permanent culture,moving to a more community based system and moving forward with a good understanding of the limits of nature as well as the endless possibilities.
Ashwood College Permaculture Food Garden is a fantastic example of how we create change not only in the present but in the future actions of the students. Here we are turning 2500 square metres of kikuyu grass into a thriving food garden and community.
36 chooks and a growing group of gardeners are helping each other.
We are taking action while governments and businesses are doing or preparing their own thing.
The way we shop, grow food, cook, get around, work and relax has an impact on the entire planet. There are many small actions we can take in our daily lives that make a difference to our energy usage. Growing food in our garden or locally is saving a lot of energy.
We enjoy doing something for our children's future on this planet while we get to work with each other and continually discover new solutions.
Permaculture means permanent culture,moving to a more community based system and moving forward with a good understanding of the limits of nature as well as the endless possibilities.
Ashwood College Permaculture Food Garden is a fantastic example of how we create change not only in the present but in the future actions of the students. Here we are turning 2500 square metres of kikuyu grass into a thriving food garden and community.
36 chooks and a growing group of gardeners are helping each other.
We are taking action while governments and businesses are doing or preparing their own thing.
Petra Kahle, Tamara Griffiths & Mariette Tuohey
Tamara Griffiths did her life-changing Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) with Bill Mollison and Geoff Lawton in January 2007. She has since completed a Permaculture Practical Certificate with Geoff and Nadia Lawton at Bill and Lisa Mollison's farm in Tasmania.
Tamara and her partner Andy live at Moonrise Sanctuary, an acre in Bunyip. For 3 years they have designed and implemented swales and ponds, a heritage fruit orchard, Forest Garden, chicken tractors, and veggie patches with predator insects in great numbers. They have a grey water system and tanks so that barely a drop of water leaves the property.
Having grown up in dusty Whyalla, South Australia, she has lived and worked most of her life in regional and remote Australia. She loves ducks, observing nature and agitating for change. She convenes Permaculture Cardinia Baw Baw, a local group of Permaculture Melbourne.
Tamara is also an historian, completing her Masters in 2003. She has worked for Aboriginal Affairs, Melbourne Museum and archeologists. She spent two years in Halls Creek (Kimberly region, WA) working for an Aboriginal traditional language centre. Up there she learned about bush tucker, got completely obsessed with frogs and met bush mechanics.
This year Tamara hopes to convene a Women’s PDC, teach practical skills like “how to dig a swale” and help people set up their own permaculture systems.
Petra Kahle has always had an interest in living in harmony with nature and people and is now the president of Permaculture Melbourne and runs her own business Permaculture Works.
She saves energy and water in anything she does and connects to her local community in Ashburton, keeping our planet in mind.
Her garden, her business and the family home are continually being converted for a very low-energy future.
Petra has been changing her life-style using permaculture sustainability for the last 15 years and qualified as a permaculture designer in 2004 with David Holmgren, Darren Doherty and others.
Now she teaches Introduction to Permaculture, has open days and helps clients design efficient sustainable systems.
In the garden, her emphasis is on growing food water-efficiently, saving energy and growing the most nutrient rich foods - nuts and greens.
Petra is excited about the different richness of the future.
Mariette Tuohey lives in Ashburton, in Melbourne's South Eastern suburbs. She is the mother of two teenage sons and is happily married to Simon. Mariette's home is the winner of the 2008 Victorian Housing Industry Association's Energy Efficient Custom Built Home of the Year and this home is an entrant to the 2009 Greensmart Awards. The 5.5 star home is packed with features to capture and save water and energy and both healthy home and sustainably harvested materials were used where possible. Mariette has just started her business in sustainability consulting, helping home owners who are building a new home or renovating an existing home to maximise the opportunity to do the best by the environment while they're building. We can all do much more than meet the legal requirements.
Mariette is a qualified permaculture designer and has spent most of her time since her permaculture design course in 2004 on organising the renovation her own home. The next step is to implement her new garden design in her own garden. While this has taken up much of Mariette's time, she has in the meantime co-ordinated the start-up phase of the Ashwood College Permaculture Food Garden, a project you will hear more about from her and Petra.
Tamara and her partner Andy live at Moonrise Sanctuary, an acre in Bunyip. For 3 years they have designed and implemented swales and ponds, a heritage fruit orchard, Forest Garden, chicken tractors, and veggie patches with predator insects in great numbers. They have a grey water system and tanks so that barely a drop of water leaves the property.
Having grown up in dusty Whyalla, South Australia, she has lived and worked most of her life in regional and remote Australia. She loves ducks, observing nature and agitating for change. She convenes Permaculture Cardinia Baw Baw, a local group of Permaculture Melbourne.
Tamara is also an historian, completing her Masters in 2003. She has worked for Aboriginal Affairs, Melbourne Museum and archeologists. She spent two years in Halls Creek (Kimberly region, WA) working for an Aboriginal traditional language centre. Up there she learned about bush tucker, got completely obsessed with frogs and met bush mechanics.
This year Tamara hopes to convene a Women’s PDC, teach practical skills like “how to dig a swale” and help people set up their own permaculture systems.
Petra Kahle has always had an interest in living in harmony with nature and people and is now the president of Permaculture Melbourne and runs her own business Permaculture Works.
She saves energy and water in anything she does and connects to her local community in Ashburton, keeping our planet in mind.
Her garden, her business and the family home are continually being converted for a very low-energy future.
Petra has been changing her life-style using permaculture sustainability for the last 15 years and qualified as a permaculture designer in 2004 with David Holmgren, Darren Doherty and others.
Now she teaches Introduction to Permaculture, has open days and helps clients design efficient sustainable systems.
In the garden, her emphasis is on growing food water-efficiently, saving energy and growing the most nutrient rich foods - nuts and greens.
Petra is excited about the different richness of the future.
Mariette Tuohey lives in Ashburton, in Melbourne's South Eastern suburbs. She is the mother of two teenage sons and is happily married to Simon. Mariette's home is the winner of the 2008 Victorian Housing Industry Association's Energy Efficient Custom Built Home of the Year and this home is an entrant to the 2009 Greensmart Awards. The 5.5 star home is packed with features to capture and save water and energy and both healthy home and sustainably harvested materials were used where possible. Mariette has just started her business in sustainability consulting, helping home owners who are building a new home or renovating an existing home to maximise the opportunity to do the best by the environment while they're building. We can all do much more than meet the legal requirements.
Mariette is a qualified permaculture designer and has spent most of her time since her permaculture design course in 2004 on organising the renovation her own home. The next step is to implement her new garden design in her own garden. While this has taken up much of Mariette's time, she has in the meantime co-ordinated the start-up phase of the Ashwood College Permaculture Food Garden, a project you will hear more about from her and Petra.
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