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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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Education and Training Circle: Call to join us!
We are exploring a community led Education and Training Circle to design a simple peer review and recognition process for CoLab aligned courses. The aim is to create a CoLab peer reviewed process and certification that learners can trust and that stays affordable and fair for educators and reviewers. This includes core permaculture courses and also specialist or aligned offers such as agroecology, facilitation, regenerative business and more.
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At this stage it is a volunteer effort. There is a first draft of a possible peer review flow and some ideas for contribution models, but nothing is fixed. We are looking for people who want to help shape the criteria, refine the process, and explore how this could later become a small micro enterprise that supports livelihoods without creating barriers.
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If you are interested in joining the first conversations or seeing the draft outline, please send an email to contact@perma.earth and we can take it from there. We aim to meet in the first 2 weeks of December for an initial meeting.
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PermaTalks
PermaTalks (PermaPuheet), organized by the European Permaculture Network (EuPN), return with an exciting sixth season starting on 15 January 2026 – one lecture every week on Thursdays at 18:30 CET:
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15.01 - Dialogue - Permaculture project implementation - Aimee Fenech, Lumia Huhdanpää-Jais and Ryan Sandford-Blackburn
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22.01 - Tom Henfrey - TBA
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29.01 - The Permaculture Colab – From proprietary to open source: a dive into permaculture research - Dominik Jais and Aimee Fenech
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05.02 - Dialogue - Permaculture Design - Mayi Lekuona, Cathrine Dolleris and Dominik Jais
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12.02 - Annette Flinterman - An introduction to the SEKEM community
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19.02 - Dialogue - Hosting permaculture volunteers - Katka Horackova, Barbara Scheltus, Andreas Pohl
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26.02 - Dialogue - Permaculture courses - Cathrine Dolleris and Barbara Scheltus
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05.03 - Linda Blättler - Beyond the mimicry claim: What permaculture contributes to nature and to people. Findings from eight farms in the Czech Republic and Belgium
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12.03 - Jorge Barbosa - Permaculture in Schools
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19.03 - Monika Frank - Permaplants - what makes a plant a permaplant?
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Visit the PermaTalks website for more details about the lectures and speakers – and to watch previous talks.
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CoLab Blog Post
Can Advocacy and Listening co-exist? — the Art of Conversation – part 2
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This blog post was written by Aimee Fenech and was first published on Medium in August 2022. It explores the clarification that we may need to do even if we think we have a shared language. Clarification is essential to build a common base of understanding. The article talks about how describing our bodily experience in the moment can bring people into a relational space. Finally, it asks if we need to take sides.
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Peripheral LINK Convergence - Submit your session/help proposal!
The Peripheral LINKs Convergence is a gathering for connection, reflection, and co-creation. It brings together people and projects from across Europe who work towards regeneration — in communities, education, food systems, and beyond.
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Over five days we’ll share stories, ideas, and experiences from different regions, weaving them into a stronger network of changemakers. The convergence is a living space for dialogue and collaboration — combining talks, workshops, art, and informal moments of celebration and rest.
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For the LINKs Convergence from the 9th to the 13th of February 2026 we are currently looking for session proposals. Would you like to host a session or participate in some other way?
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Some examples of sessions could be: sharing a facilitation tool/technique in a practical exercise that you work in your organization/network, hosting a participative discussion on a topic you want to explore deeper, presenting your project…
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Other tasks might be: helping with coordination, marketing, tech…
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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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All My Relations Podcast
Welcome to All My Relations, a podcast where we explore what it means to be a Native person in the modern day. To be an Indigenous person is to be engaged in relationships—relationships to land and place, to a people, to non-human relatives, and to one another. All My Relations is a place to explore those relationships, and to think through Indigeneity in all its complexities.
On each episode hosts Matika Wilbur (Tulalip and Swinomish) and Adrienne Keene (Cherokee Nation), delve into a different topic facing Native peoples today, bringing in guests from all over Indian Country to offer perspectives and stories. We dive deep, play some games, laugh a lot, cry sometimes, and hope that you’ll join us on this journey together.
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Resource of the Month
Wired Differently: Neurodivergence Training Objective Report
This guide looks at fostering inclusive and neurodiversity-adapted self-organized spaces. It collects tools, practices, and theory that were gathered from the Neurodiversity Education Academy and The Hum’s “Wired Differently – creating a team culture where all minds can thrive” training course.
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This guide represents a cross-section of the “best practices” from the field, from a variety of academic, grassroots, and psychology practitioners. It is offered in the hope that it will inspire you to explore and use some of the techniques outlined in order to bring more inclusivity into your own teams, work life, and organisational culture. This guide is a hefty document. You don’t need to read the whole thing, but can check which area of inclusion and neurodiversity that you want to explore by skimming over the table of contents.
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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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Upcoming Events
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Write a Blog Post
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You can submit your article in the community space here.
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