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The International Permaculture Collaborative Laboratory is a 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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Call for Permaculture Researchers: Let’s Elevate Permaculture Research Together
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Are you a researcher who has published academic papers on permaculture?
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We’d love to hear from you.
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The International Permaculture CoLab is starting a community-driven effort to elevate permaculture research and spark more public discourse around permaculture as a tool for addressing today’s global challenges—climate change, food security, biodiversity loss, and social justice.
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To spotlight existing research, build dialogue between researchers and practitioners, and make permaculture research more visible and accessible.
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Researchers with peer-reviewed publications on permaculture or related themes.
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Practitioners who have contributed to action research, case studies, or community-led research with academic outputs.
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Scholars interested in bridging the gap between research and practice.
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If this speaks to you—or if there’s a particular part of this call-out that feels relevant—please send us a short email introducing yourself and your research.
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Please include:
- A brief overview of your research focus
- Links to any publications (if available)
- Which part of this initiative you’re most interested in (e.g., visibility, practitioner-researcher dialogue, knowledge exchange, etc.)
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We’re excited to connect with researchers who want to help strengthen the role of permaculture in research and global problem-solving.
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Diversity & Decolonisation Community Pot Info Session
Join Us: CoLab Diversity & Decolonisation Community Pot Info Session
Date: 11th August
Time: 6:00 PM CET
Location: Online
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Are you curious about the Diversity and Decolonisation Community Pot?
This info session is for anyone interested in applying, exploring possibilities, or learning more about the kind of work this fund supports.
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- The difference between the grant and the stipend
- How the application and community consent process works
- What makes a strong application
- Live examples and highlights from past community awardees.
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There will be space for your questions and ideas.
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We look forward to seeing you there.
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Perma Talks
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All the PermaTalks sessions from the last edition of the Permapuheet have now been posted. You can see the list of talks here:
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Alfred Decker - The Social Microclimate
Steven Hart - Global networks strengthen our dynamics
Anne Stobart - Designing with Medicinal Trees and Shrubs in the Forest Garden
Steve Read - Permaculture in France and the Francophone World
Barbara Scheltus & Dominik Jais - Match & Hatch: Sharing Experiences with the Diploma in Applied Permaculture Design
Tom Henfrey - Shamanism and Permaculture: Foundations of a Sacred Political Ecology
Calin Radulescu - Permaculture Design beyond the edges...
Lumia Huhdanpää-Jais - Diploma Presentation
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Share with your networks to spread more Permaculture Into the World!
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All EuPN Members can now Publish their own Blog Posts on the Platform!
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The European Permaculture Network (EuPN) is excited to share that all EuPN members can now publish their own blog posts on the platform!
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Blog posts can be linked to projects and will then appear on the project’s profile as well. Each post is owned by the member who created it, and members can freely delete or edit their own blog entries.
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Want to stay updated? Every member blog comes with its own RSS feed, so friends and followers can subscribe and read your posts elsewhere.
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Ready to share your permaculture news, insights, and stories? Sign up and start blogging.
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Joanna Macy
Dear friends,
With full hearts, we share that Joanna Macy, our beloved root teacher, mentor, and friend, passed away peacefully at home on July 19th, at 3:56PM Pacific Time.
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Over these past weeks, Joanna continued to inspire us through her presence, clarity, and deep love for life. She chose to remain at home, where she was held in love, as she gently let go.
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Joanna gave us a profound understanding of the gifts of grief and a vision for resilience. She offered the Spiral and the larger body of the Work That Reconnects not just as a framework, but as a way to move through the world with courage and tenderness. She reminded us, again and again, that the world is alive and we belong to it.
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Though her body has left us, her work pulses in every one of us. In every moment of truth-speaking, in every gathering that dares to feel, in every act of sacred activism - we will keep her message alive.
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May we carry forward her love of life. May we grieve with open eyes. May we continue the Great Turning she so faithfully named.
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The Network is organizing an online gathering to celebrate her life, with the date to be announced soon.
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With reverence,
The Work That Reconnects Network Weavers
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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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Black Fatigue. How Racism Erodes the Mind, Body, and Spirit by Mary-Frances Winters.
Black Fatigue is a vital resource for Black and non-Black people who are looking for ways to heal, learn, and have productive and supportive conversations about racial injustice and trauma. To move forward, we need to know where we came from and where we are — Black Fatigue is the foundation from which we can begin to imagine a better world, together.
This book highlights the history of white supremacist, racist systems that led to Black intergenerational fatigue. It focuses on the impact of Black fatigue on Blacks and on society. The racist system is not just literally killing Black people; it is tearing the nation apart. In every aspect of life, from socioeconomics to education, the workforce, criminal justice and, very importantly, health outcomes. It is paradoxical that with all the attention over the last 50 years on social justice and diversity and inclusion, we have made little progress in actualizing the vision of an equitable society.
This is a resource that was shared by The Winters Group, Inc..
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Resource of the Month
EcoSocial Design: Using Leadership and Enterprise in Service to Regenerative Living
An eBook by CoLab member Andrew Langford. Ecosocial Design is a call to upgrade our actions for people, planet and all life forms. It extends the substantial earth-care notions of permaculture into the cultural realm. Presented by Gaia Education, details from this full-length book are a part of their curriculum for their Gaia U Certificate in Ecosocial Design.
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“It is a wide ranging curriculum that assumes, as a kind of prerequisite, a practitioner level knowledge of permaculture design. Practicing permaculture is our favored method for reconnecting ourselves with nature especially as it holds to so-called deep green ethics – Care of the Earth, Care of People and Limits to Consumption and Population. These essential ethics go past an anthropocentric viewpoint in favor of a web-of-life perspective: humans are part of this web of life, not separate from it, and so, if immediate human interests clash with ecosystem interests, we strive to give the latter priority. *If you don’t have a grounded knowledge of permaculture design find a permaculture design course and get it now and start practicing it.”
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Engagement opportunities
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Applications are open for Diversity Stipends and Grants. Find out more by reading the policy carefully.
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Upcoming recruitment for positions within the International Permaculture CoLab and Aligned networks can be found also here.
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Did you know: Within the CoLab slack workspace we also curate a channel called; #nice-jobs where members share open positions worldwide that are aligned with our shared values.
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Upcoming Events
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