#100 Water Extremes: Drought  & Flood

Summer 2016

• Capturing the Rains of Hurricane Odile by Brad Lancaster

• Flatlands, Flash Floods, and Permaculture by Bruce Blair

• Lessons from Water by Bonita Fordd

• Mycorhizal Fungi in Water Extremes by Peter McCoy

• Water-Harvesting Swales for Drought-Proofing by Douglas Barnes

• Using Water to Heal the Land by Michael Pilarski

• The Australian Keyline Plan by Ken Yeomans

• Extreme Resilience: Rain Gardens & Urban Trees by Diana Sette

• Buying Good Stock by Robert Kourik

• The Scourge of the Captains of Compost by Robert Kourik

• Permaculture in Practice: The 4th Thailand Permaculture Convergence by Michael B. Commmons

• Book Reviews
  Gardening with Less Water: Low-Tech, Low-Cost Techniques by David Bainbridge
  Miraculous Abundance: One quarter-acre, two French farmers & enough food to feed the world by Perriine & Charles Herve-Gruyer
  City of Refuge (The Fifth Saccred Thing, Vol. 3) by Starhawk
  The Nature of Order: An essay on the art of building & the nature of the universe by Christopher Alexander

#99 Ecological Restoration 

Spring 2016

• The Upward Spiral by Jono Neiger

• Tree-Crop Survivors: Standing Tall Amongst the Sprawl by Ben Richmond

• Restoring Commuities & Landscape: Agroforestry in Ecuador by Nick Slobodian

• Ecology & Economy: The End of Restoration by Tao Orion

• Woodland Permaculture by Don Tipping

• Open Letter Reclaiming Environmentalism by Derrick Jensen & Lierre Keith

• 2015 INTERNATIONAL PERMACULTURE CONVERGENCE COVERAGE (Guest edited by Chris Warburton-Brown
  - Understanding the Ebb & Flow of Permaculture by David Holmgren
  - Abundance from Small Spaces by Graham Bell
  - A New Framework for Sustainability by Kristin Vala Ragnarsdottir
  - Can Arable be Permacultural by Federico Filippi
  - The Big Idea with Seven Billion Solutions by Rosemary Morrow
  - Harnessing Permaculture for Sustainable Development by Gisele Henriques & Lachlan McKenzie
  - Rights of Nature - Why Do We Need It? by Mumta Ito

• A Perennial Food Guild for the Arid Southwest by Michael Ford

• Grow Your Own Phosphorus by Robert Kourik

• Book Reviews
  Trees for Gardens, Orchards, & Permaculture by Martin Crawford
  The Healing Terrain: Coming Home to Nature's Medicine by Jesse Wolf Hardin along with Kiva Rosese Hardin, David Hoffmann, Phyllis Light, Robin Rose Bennett, Juliet Blankespoor, & Dara Saville

#98 Decolonizing Permaculture 

Winter 2015

• Permaculture = Relationship by Stella Strega Scoz & Jose’ Lorenzo Zamora

• Living Naturally: A Black Woman Practicing Permaculture by Kirtrina Baxter

• People of Color Statement from the NAPC by POC Caucus, NAPC 2014

• Permaculture and the Patrix by Andrew Langford

• Open Letter … in the Wake of the Charleston Shootings by Dani slabaugh, David Rodriguez,
  & Nakia Winfield

• The Intersectionality of Permaculture Ethics by Anandi A. Premlall

• Navigating an Uneven Terrain by Heather Jo Flores

• Exploring the Intersection of Permaculture & Decolonization by Jesse Watson

• A Short Lexicon of Racism by Starhawk

• Best Practices to Support Women in Permaculture by Karryn Olson-Ramanujan

• Colonialism Dimishes Us All by Joel Glanzberg

• In Support of Women and People of Color in Permaculture: A Report by Jonathon Bates

#97 Life on the Edge

Fall 2015

• A New Culture of Healing by Jesse Wolf Hardin

• Hedgerows Make Better Neighbors by Molly Phemister

• Life on the Edge by Rick Valley

• Hellstrip Polycultures by Frank Raymond Cetera

• Permaculture in Succession: Reaching the Masses by Alan Booker

• Humanure: Just Do It by Stan Wilson

• Deep Roots for Dynamic Accumulation? by Robert Kourik

• Walking the Line: Culture by Jeanmarie Zirger

• Designing for Childen and Elders by Roman Shapla

• Gardening Natives by Dara Saville

• Whole Earth, Whole Birth by Marly Hornik

• Grief: Designing for Disaster by Lonnie Howell

• Green Chinampas by Jeanmarie Zirger

• Food Justice and Edible Schoolyards by Patricia Sprague

#96 Building the Solar Economy

Summer 2015

• The Gross Society: Why Energy Profit Matters by Richard Heinberg

• Enchanted Ecosystems: Bioshelters and Solar Greenhouses by Jason Workman

• Designing the Passivhaus by Christina Snyder

• Lemons in the Living Room by Sue Gray and Jerome Osentowski

• Solar Success in the Midwest by Woodie Bessler, Darrell Boggess, Anne Heddin, & Terry Usrey

• Planting Rain in the Desert by Jeremy Lynch

• Active Systems for the Passive Solar House by Christina Snyder

• Building a Solar Business by N. Ryan Zaricki

• Perennial Grains and Pseudocereals, Part 2, by Eric Toensmeier

• Revival of a Peer-Driven Permaculture Organization by Penny Livingston-Stark and Peter Bane

• Species Index (Issues #75-90)

• Book Reviews:
  Afterburn: Society Beyond Fossil Fuels by Richard Heinberg (review by Peter Bane);
  Seed Libraries and other means of keeping seeds in the hands of the people by Cindy Connor
  (review by Peter Bane);
  Around the World in 80 Plants by Stephen Barstow (review by Peter Bane).

#95 Perennial Crops

Spring 2015

• Perennial Crops, Perennial Cultures by Adam Brock

• Hybrid Swarms and Hickory-Pecans by Philip A. Rutter

• De-Slugging the Woods by Steve Gabriel

• Perennial Sugar by Bill Whipple

• Regreening Haiti by Braden Trauth

• Four Perennial Vegetables by Martin Crawford

• Perennial Cereals and Pseudocereals by Eric Toensmeier

• Basic Guild Patterning by Rico Zook

• One, Two, Three – Actinidia! by Jono Neiger

• A Forager’s Journey to the Future by Ande Shewe

• General Index (Issues #75-90)

• Book Reviews:
  The Community-Scale Permaculture Farm (Review by Peter Bane);
  Organic Mushroom Farming and MycoRemediation (Review by Brian Mets);
  Growing Hybrid Hazelnuts (Review by Peter Bane); 
  Eat Your Greens (Review by Peter Bane)

#94 Seasonal Cycles of Work

Winter 2014

• Festivals and Forestry on the Ecological Calendar by Tom Ward

• A High Desert Homestead by Erin O’Neill

• Seasons of the Market Garden by Darrell Frey

• Eating Year-Round from a Wisconsin Garden by Kathleen Plunkett-Black

• Energy Through the Seasons by Peter Bane

• Weaving the Threads of Resilience by Rhonda Baird

• Forest Garden Research by Tomas Remiarz

• Reviews:
  Farming the Woods: An Integrated Permaculture Approach to Growing Food and Medicinals
  in the Temperate Forest by Ken Mudge and Steve Gabriel (Reviewer Peter Bane);
  Sustainable [R]evolution: Permaculture in Ecovillages, Urban Farms and Communities
  Worldwide. [Reviewer Michael Welber]

​​#93 Experimentation: Science in Permaculture

Fall 2014

• Critical Questions for Permaculture by Rafter Sass Ferguson

• Dynamic Accumulators Revisited by Robert Kourik

• Experimentation in Permaculture by Chris Warburton-Brown

• Nitrogen-Fixing Vegetables by Jonathan Bates

• Bio-Char – the Carbon Kickstarter by Kelpie Wison & Hans-Peter Schmidt

• People’s Science or Pseudoscience? by Rafter Sass Ferguson

• Permaculture Farmer in Malawi by Abigail Conrad

• Forming a More Perfect Union: Permaculture & Academia by Steve Gabriel

• Soil and Biodiversity Test by Tom Kemeny

• Political Ecology & Public Permaculture by Christopher Kelly-Bisson

• Reviews:
  A Different Kind of Luxury: Japanese Lessons in Simple Liiving & Innner Abundance (Review by Erin Schey); The Art & Science of Shepherding: Tapping the Wisdom of French Herders (Review by Peter Bane); Integrated Forest Gardening: The complete guide to polycultures & plant guilds in permaculture systems (Review by Peter Bane); The Permaculture Orchard (video) (Review by Peter Bane)

​​#92 Stacking Functions

Summer 2014

• A Primer on Stacking Functions by Matt Smaus

• Making the Most of Every Growing Surface by Marie F. Fleming

• 55 Uses of Biochar by Hans-Peter Schmidt & Kelpie Wilson

• Growing Community Against Steep Odds by Amy Stross

• A Linguistic Permaculture of the Oak by Ben Kessler

• Nature, Culture, and Self by Bonita Ford

• Fodder Banking in Central America by Justin West

• Designing with the Rule of Three by Rhonda Baird

• Sensible Solutions for a World of Extremes: Colorado Flooding by Jason Gerhardt

• North American Permaculture Convergence by Michael Pilarski

• Species Index to Issues 41-74 (May 1999 – Winter 2009

• Book reviews:
  Earth Users Guide to Teaching Permaculture, 2nd Edition;
  Building Small Barns, Sheds, & Shelters;
  Free-Range Chicken Gardens: How to Create a Beautiful, Chicken-Friendly Yard; The Mobile Poultry Slaughterhouse;
  Secrets of Plant Propagation;
  Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Vol. 1, 2nd Edition;
  Cider: Making, Using, & Enjoying Sweet & Hard Cider, 3rd Edition;
  Basic Butchering of Livestock & Game;
  The Market Gardener: A Successful Grower’s Handbook for Small-Scale Organic Farming;Yigal Deutscher: Envisioning Sabbatical Culture

​​#91 Seeds

Spring 2014

• Stewards of Arizona Seed-Sheds by Chris Franco

• Seed Saving Primer by Randel Agrella

• Remember the Leucaena by Marjory Wildcraft

• Volunteer Plants in the Garden by Michael Pilarski

• Successful Seed-Saving by Hillie Salo

• Bioregional Seed-Sheds by Don Tipping

• Saving the Seeds of Cheese by David Asher Rotzstain

• Create Your Own Seed Bank by Randel Agrella

• The Seeds of Community: Forest Garden Emerging by Frank Raymond Cetera

• Start a Community Seed Bank by Ellen Rainwalker

• GMO Seeds: The New Green Revolution in Africa by Trina Moyles

• Index to Permaculture Activist #59 – 74 (2006-2009)

• Book reviews:
  Edible Landscaping with a Permaculture Twist; American Exodus: Climate Change and the Coming Flight for Survival; The Vegetable Gardener’s Guide to Permaculture: Creating An Edible Ecosystem

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​​#90 Appropriate Technology

Winter 2013

• It’s Getting Better All the Time…. by Maurice Schauffert

• Low-Tech Tools for Zone 4 by Ben Weiss

• Rocket Mass Heaters by Leslie Jackson

• Stocking Up with Solar Power: Evaluating Food Dryers by Dennis Scanlin

• Teaching an Old Pump New Tricks by Douglas Bullock

• WWOOFing Bonds Virtual with Face-to-Face Community by Dan Moberger

• Social Sharing Software by Chris Carnevale

• Hand-Powered Oil Presses by John Wages

• Facing the Giants: Permaculture Trials at a Big Ag School by Kevin Woltz

• Scythes: A Gem from the Past by Vaidila Satvika

• Convivial Technology: The Scythe by Peter Vido

• Board Game Technology for Education by Roman Shapla

• Solar Double-Cropping by Glen & Lyle Estill

• Community-Supported Industry by Susan Witt

• Book Reviews:
  Small Stories, Big Changes: Agents of change on the front lines of sustainability;
  The Woodland Way, 2nd Ed.: A permaculture approach to sustainable woodland management;
  Earth Repair: A grassroots guide to healing toxic & damaged landscapes;
  Let It Shine: The 6000-year story of solar energy;
  Growing Food in the Southwest Mountains: A guide to high altitude, semi-arid home permaculture gardens

#89 Practicing Democracy

Autumn, 2013

• Mimicking Life’s Politics by Ellen Laconte

• The Case for Slow Democracy by Susan Clark & Woden Teachout

• David vs. Goliath: Seed Libraries by Stephanie Syson

• Mapping the Way to Prosperity in Rhode Island by Greg Gerritt

• Lessons from the Iroquois in Self-Organizing Governance by Joel Glanzberg

• A Toolbox for Social Permaculture by Abrah Jordan Dresdale & Connor Stedman

• Entrepreneurship & the Three-Legged Stool of Sustainability by Lee Walker Warren

• Bring a Little Dirt into Your Life: So. Calif. Community Gardens by Bill Roley

• The Forgotten Herb: Sweet Cicely by Jill Henderson

• Patoralism: Problem or Solution by Alice Gray

• Losing Ground in the Solomon Islands by Rosemary Morrow

• Book Reviews: Life, Liberty & the Pursuit of Food Rights: The escalating battle over who decides what we eat;
  The Five Stages of Collapse: Survivors toolkit;
  Principles of Ecological Landscape Design;
  Financing our Foodshed: Growing Local Food with Slow Money;
  Growing Food in a Hotter, Drier Climate: Lessons from desert farmers on adapting to climate uncertainty

#88, Earth Skills & Nature Connection

Summer 2013

• Mentoring for the Earth: Nature Connection & Cultural Repair by Mark Morey

• Building a Permaculture Legacy Through Nature Connection by Jon Young & Josh Lane

• Connecting Youth to Nature & Self by Rick Berry

• Wild Animals Tell Us by Tom Ward

• Teaching Earth Skill to Children by Roman Shapla

• Permaculture & Wilderness Survival by Adam “Hub” Knott

• Tracks to a Full Stomach by Bonita Ford

• Traditional Observation Techniques for the Permaculture Designer by Benjamin Weiss

• Adventures in Oyster-Tecture: Thought on Seabed Design by Jason Gerhardt

• A Personal Forest: Reclaiming Our Carbon Footprints by Albert Bates

• Suburban Agroforestry: An Ohio Valley Prototype by Blake Cothron

• Book Reviews: Perennial Vegetable Gardening;
  Plowing with Pigs: And Other Creative, Low-budget Homesteading Solutions;
  Restoration Agriculture: Real-world Permaculture for Farmers;
  Rebuilding the Foodshed: How to Create Local, Sustainable, & Secure Food Systems;
  The Resilient Farm & Homestead: An Innovative Permaculture & Whole Systems Design Approach

#87 Weeds to the Rescue

Spring 2013

• Managing Weedy Species by Tao Orion;

• Where the Sheet Mulch Hits the Road by Creighton Hofeditz;

• These Are a few of My Favorite Weeds by Stephanie Syson & Jerome Osentowski;

• Wisdom of Weeds by Frank Salzano;

• The Underestimated Paulownia by Tony Troia;

• Grafting onto Weedy Opportunities by Bill Whipple;

• Net-Generation Polycultures by Eric Toensmeier;

• Burdon Enemy, Burdock Ally by Ryan Bloosser & Ted Butchart

• Rescuing the Reputation of Weeds by Tom Ward;

• Index to Permaculture Activist issues 41-58

• Book Reviews:
  The Organic Seed Grower: A farmer’s guide to vegetable seed production (in Word);
  Permaculture Design: A step-by-step guide; Paradise Lot: Two plant geeks, one-tenth of an acre, and the making of an edible garden oasis in the city; Making Home: Adapting our homes and our lives to settle in place