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Welcome to PEOPLE CAN Permaculture

I'm currently an apprentice permaculture teacher with the Permaculture Association. That's because I realised during my teaching degree that only nourishment and working with nature...... are really worth spending the enormous amount of energy involved in teaching at this time.

Although it was great fun teaching film and tv, it just didn't seem to me that representative culture is the most important thing to spend such a lot energy on at this time.

How connected is that representative culture to the culture we really want to live in?

Permaculture is made of the words permanent and culture.

So we do need culture, (just less of the representational kind imo) and it would be restful to have a permanent one and stop all this jigging about and argument...... and if we're going to have that, then that permanent culture has to be kind.

That's why I studied for the Permaculture Design Certificate with Mich at Social Landscapes and I've used some of the non-ideological permaculture principles in building this website and the connection with self and others that permeates all the coaching, assertiveness, teaching, supporting and advocacy.

The first actual project to come out of this approach is the short ebook 'Sector Disability', introducing a new conceptual approach to disability within permaculture that will hopefully have a much broader relevance and application in prioritising real issues.

It's worth re-stating that in using permaculture principles, they are specifically non-ideological. It's clear that this needs to be stated clearly and often, as ecological concerns have often been used to obfuscate power grabs. Not only that but permaculture needs to engage and make sure it's not veering into such territory. Why? Because it's not in accordance with nature, that's why. It's unbalanced to use ecological dogma to hurt and harm people, full stop.