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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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Find out what is going on
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We welcome members of the permaculture associations in Europe
We are in the process of onboarding a working group which has started in Ecolise and is now using the CoLab community space to self-organise for collaboration across Europe. We look forward to the unfolding and exciting collaborations possible across the continent.
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Ian Illington is also keen to set up a similar group for the Australasian associations and communities so spread the word!
If you are curious about our community space and haven't joined yet, you can watch a tour around the new community space here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PD316nsQI5Y
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The GROW Project will be going ahead!
Thanks to our generous funders, we have secured funding for the next 3 years to cover the following objectives:
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- Support and make visible a wide variety of research including: making the impacts of the permaculture global movement more visible, continue building on research done in the last years to support in practice the permaculture movement to engage in difficult conversations, weave stronger strategic connections and broaden access and impact of commons resources. Deepen our research into ethical digital products research and development.
- Ensure continuous training available to the permaculture CoLab members and allied networks including the Global Regeneration CoLab and the Deep Adaptation Forum and others across different topics including increasing digital literacy,
- Ensure services remain available for the CoLab to remain operational including a number of identified key roles and support roles/activities including digital tech support, project management, financial administration, governance support and now including communications and monitoring and evaluation and including sustainability of the CoLab through fundraising support to diversify and strengthen the funding base.
- Enable the growth of the community through community engagement practices from within and without especially through curated spaces to bring together strategic partners and permaculture practitioners within the movement and broadening reach and impact of resources created as commons.
- Diversity, Decolonisation fund in place to enhance the diversity of the Colab as a collaborative space by supporting members who otherwise would not be able to engage and enable development and delivery of diversity training resources for the CoLab and the wider movement.
- Leaving room for Emergent activities within the current and evolving projects through the Emergent Festival which a community led funding exercise engaging the community to support, identify and collaborate with projects emerging.
We are looking forward to getting stuck in the work which will be organised and held by the CoLab circles to keep up the work that has been ongoing and new tracks of work. If you're interested in reading more about this project you can read the concept note, application and budget in the Funding Circle/Grow Project category on the Community Space.
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We will also publish more about this project in due course on the website.
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A new CoLab map has been published
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You can see a readable version be clicking on the image below
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Digital Independence Day
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Starting February, EuPN and The Digital Circle will host monthly Digital Independence Day Switch Parties. They connect our digital choices with ecological values; reclaiming our digital lives by choosing tools that respect people, communities and our planet.
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Every first Sunday of the month we switch together from proprietary platforms to open, community-powered alternatives. Learning, mutual support and collective courage included!
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01.02.2026 – WhatsApp → Signal → https://meet.jit.si/Permaculture-Di-Day
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01.03.2026 – X → Mastodon
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05.04.2026 – Gmail → independent email services
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03.05.2026 – MS Office → LibreOffice
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07.06.2026 – YouTube → PeerTube
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05.07.2026 – Discord → Matrix
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02.08.2026 – Windows → Linux
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06.09.2026 – Google Analytics → Matomo
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04.10.2026 – Google Drive → Nextcloud
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01.11.2026 – Slack → Discourse
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Resource of the Month
Conflict Transformation Training
This workshop explored how to successfully transform conflict for self-organised teams. The artefact includes exercises, resources, a link to the session design, and a link to a recording of the instructional parts and takeaways.
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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 and have attended an onboarding call.
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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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If you are a CoLab member or allied organisation you can add your events to our calendar.
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You can submit your article in the community space here.
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