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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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Celebrating A New Community Space for the CoLab
The International Permaculture CoLab has begun the transition away from Slack and into Discourse, an open source platform that was carefully researched, tested, and chosen as our new home for collaboration.
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It brings together members, project teams, circles, and allied networks in one place to connect, share updates, and collaborate across the global permaculture movement.
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New users are already joining the Community Space, and the conversations have started to take shape.
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All current Slack users have received their invite, if you haven’t received it yet no worries you can use the link in this newsletter to sign-up.
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Once you have signed up, a member of the admin team will review your request and manually approve it. This is to prevent bots from getting in.
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Login instructions: Go to community.perma.earth. If you have an account already you will be able to log-in and if not then you need to use the sign-up link above.
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If you already have an account, this is a good time to log in, update your profile, introduce yourself, and start engaging.
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This new community space endeavours to make content better organised (eliminating the Slack overwhelm) and enable people to make the most of their CoLab membership benefits (more on that below).
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Some people have asked about a mobile app - look for Discourse Hub in your app store.
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You can also customise how many notifications or emails you receive from the platform once you’re in.
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We hope to see you all on the other side! Gratitude goes to the Digital Circle Research team and tech support, the Welcome Circle for taking on the platform admin & moderation, the early adopters and all of you for your support and co-operation.
Send an email if you have questions - contact@perma.earth
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Are You Funding Ready? - A Free Webinar
Join us for this Free Webinar: Are you Funding Ready?
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Strategic guidance for social impact, grassroots, and community-based projects
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Are you working on a community or grassroots initiative and wondering what it takes to be truly funding ready?
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Join us for a free, practical webinar designed to help projects like yours move from idea to fundable reality.
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How to assess your project’s funding readiness
Common pitfalls and how to avoid them
Professional practices that build credibility with funders
Alternative and community-based funding options
How to develop strong relationships with funders and partners
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This session will be hosted by Paul Phillips and Aimee Fenech from the Funding Circle Services, a team dedicated to helping permaculture and regenerative initiatives become financially sustainable through ethical and professional fundraising support.
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Grassroots projects seeking their first grants
Social impact initiatives building long-term sustainability
Community groups wanting to professionalize their fundraising
Networks and organizations supporting local change-makers
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Date: November 27th, 2025
Time: 16:00 UTC / 16:00 UK / 17:00 CET
Duration: 60 minutes
Format: Online interactive webinar
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Funding Opportunities for Permaculture Activities
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The CoLab has created one of the largest funding opportunities databases that aligns with permaculture values. This database has been put together by the Funding Circle. In this short video we look at how to access and use the funding opportunities database. The database itself can be found here - https://perma.earth/funding-opportunities/
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Join the PermaTalks as a Panellist!
At the beginning of each year, the European Permaculture Network (EuPN) hosts the PermaTalks – a lecture and discussion series running every Thursday at 18:30 CET, from 15 January to 5 March.
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They’re currently looking for one or two additional discussion guests for two upcoming PermaTalks:
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• Permaculture Courses – share your experience in teaching, structuring, or improving courses.
• Permaculture Project Implementation – bring your perspective from real-life design and implementation work.
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If you’ve been involved in permaculture education or hands-on projects and would like to exchange insights with others in an open, friendly and facilitated setting, they’d love to hear from you.
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Send them a short message about which topic you’d like to join and what experience you’d bring to the conversation:
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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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Invitation to Indigenous Permaculture Practitioners
We’re inviting Indigenous permaculturists to add their projects to a growing database of Indigenous-led permaculture work. To be included, you should both identify as Indigenous and actively practice permaculture in a way that reflects its core ethics: care for the Earth, care for people, and fair share.
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It's ok if you don't have formal training, but you should understand and apply permaculture principles in your project. This could take many forms - from land regeneration and food systems to education, cultural and spiritual ecologies, land restoration, ecosocial advocacy, design, or community care. All regions welcome from anywhere in the world. Please share with your networks.
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This database will help connect Indigenous practitioners globally and form the foundation for future collaborations through the International Permaculture CoLab, which seeks to amplify and support Indigenous voices in permaculture networks.
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Resource of the Month
Taxonomy of the Permaculture Movement
Projects (within the CoLab and without) have been doing work for specific audiences in the wider permaculture movement, but there is (to our knowledge) no common language for describing different parts of the permaculture “movement”.
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A taxonomy of (common language to describe) the permaculture movement could facilitate projects and organisations to share ideas, contacts, databases, and a view of who we are working with, and for. It would make it easier for us to communicate, share and collaborate around it, and could make our work more effective.
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This is an initial draft of a simple taxonomy, using the principle of designing from patterns to details. It could be enhanced in time to suit the needs of projects and the movement. It covers groupings of people involved in the world of permaculture, from national associations to PDC (permaculture design certificate) holders.
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Engagement opportunities
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There are various volunteer opportunities within the new Community Space that you can join, you can view these here when you are logged in. Accounts are available from perma.earth/onboarding-journey
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Membership Benefits!
CoLab membership is free. CoLab members are individuals who have an active account in the CoLab Community Space.
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Benefits to members include:
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Networking opportunities, meet other permaculturists all over the world
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Collaborate with others on shared interest projects and permaculture domains
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Learn and unlearn about how self-organised organisation work, make decisions. Access and share learning resources.
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Opportunities for working groups and communities to access ethical digital tools, an ethical job board for ethical livelihood and many more
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Advocacy to bring attention to permaculture to the forefront of funders attention as a solution to the climate crisis.
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