The Limits of Permaculture

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You can fix all the worlds problems in a garden – Geoff Lawton To a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail – Emerson Garden You can fix all the worlds problems in a garden, you can solve ’em all in a garden. You can solve all your pollution problems and all your supply line needs in a garden… and most people actually today actually don’t know that and that makes most people very insecure – Permaculture designer Geoff Lawton from “Greening the Desert“ Lawton’s statement was made while narrating a video showing how permaculture design and implementation was rehabilitating a patch of desert and growing fruit – an amazing achievement. For millions of people – more so in the western consumer countries – permaculture design and ethics are a revelation and Lawton’s statement rings true. Where we are masters of our own destiny much of what is Continue Permaculture Story

Can Ireland feed itself? Options for greater food security in a climate changed world.

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Study review by Paul Lynch A new study by Andi Wilson of the Sustainability Institute in Mayo on food security and climate change has concluded that Ireland may currently be only producing a quarter the human food consumed domestically. Click here for study. Agriculture In this broad-ranging study and preliminary action plan Andi Wilson examines the consequences of continued global warming & climate change for Irish food security. The study finds that a restructuring and reorientation of Irish agriculture away from export driven beef and dairy towards domestic self-sufficiency in a plant based diet could meet over 100% of our protein and calorific requirements and massively decrease green-house gas emissions. In Ireland agriculture currently produces one third of the gasses emitted nationally that cause global warming, which is more than both the residential and transport sectors combined. Indeed the study finds that such a shift would turn agriculture into a Continue Permaculture Story