Advocating for permaculture as a solution to planetary crises<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/perma.earth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/synbol.png” title_text=”synbol” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”-80px||||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”-40px||||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n
How the CoLab is\u00a0unique<\/h2>\n
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The CoLab is intentionally and collaboratively designed. We’re unincorporated, horizontal and self-organised, emergent, and globally distributed.
<\/span>We’re an experimental model for permaculture organizing: Innovative, grounded in ethics and governed by those who participate.
Through sociocracy, transparent finances, and ethical digital tools, we prototype collaborative infrastructure others can adapt and replicate. We
build and test collaborative infrastructure like policies, community templates,<\/span> <\/span>trainings, open tools, fair wage guides; that others can easily replicate<\/span>.<\/p>\n[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=”3_4,1_4″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”3_4″ _builder_version=”4.22.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n
What is Permaculture?\u00a0<\/h2>\n
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Permaculture is a practical design system rooted in three ethics: Earth Care, People Care, and Fair Share. It empowers communities to design their own solutions for food, water, shelter, governance, and collaboration; adapted and tailored to their unique context. Permaculture works with nature and with people, building self-reliant, cooperative communities that restore ecosystems while meeting human needs. From gardens to organizations, it creates regenerative systems at every scale, transforming both landscapes and how communities collaborate and make decisions together.<\/p>\n
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Permaculture as systems change\u00a0<\/h2>\n
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Permaculture tackles root causes of global crises through <\/span><\/span>systems design:<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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Climate Change: <\/span><\/strong>Carbon sequestration, local economies, agroforestry, natural building, and closed-loop systems that regenerate rather than extract.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n- \n
Biodiversity Loss<\/strong>: <\/span>Local ecosystem health is designed in through organic agriculture & habitat restoration leading to increased resilience.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n- \n
Food Security:<\/span> Locally-controlled, regenerative food <\/span><\/span>systems that build soil health and community self-<\/span><\/span>reliance.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n- \n
Community Empowerment & Justice:<\/span><\/strong> Participatory <\/span><\/span>design and cooperative models that redistribute power <\/span><\/span>and address inequality.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n- \n
Intersectional Marginalization:<\/span><\/strong> Centres inclusion and creates space for marginalized communities to lead sustainable solutions.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n- \n
Health & Nutrition:<\/span><\/strong> Diverse food systems produce nutrient-dense harvests with increases resilience and food security built-in.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n- \n
Gender: <\/span><\/strong>Human-centered ethics reject oppression; <\/span><\/span>cooperative models <\/span><\/span>challenge patriarchal structures and empower women’s <\/span><\/span>leadership.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n- \n
Environment: <\/span><\/strong>Regenerative practices restore soil, water, and ecosystems through observation, closed-loop design, and working with natural processes.
Permaculture education builds an engagement with and love for the natural environment across ages.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n- <\/span>Pov<\/span>erty:<\/span> <\/strong>Cooperative economics, repair culture, and local production systems build community wealth,increase quality of life (buen vivir), and reduce
dependence on extractive markets.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”-20px||||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n
Why the CoLab matters\u00a0<\/h2>\n
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In <\/span>more than 140 countries<\/span><\/strong> permaculture practitioners are creating powerful solutions to climate change, food insecurity, and ecological breakdown. Yet the movement’s potential is constrained by fragmentation. Projects work in isolation and practitioners lack access to funding, digital tools, and M&E capacity. Impact remains hidden in small farms, NGOs, and communities, largely unmeasured and unshared. Thi<\/span>s lack of coordination constrains the ability to build evidence and amplify the movement’s voice. The Colab exists to provide solutions to this issue and through this strengthen permaculture locally and globally.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/span><\/p>\n[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”-100px||||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.22.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.22.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n
Meet the team<\/h2>\n
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Siobhan Vida Ashmole<\/strong><\/p>\nCommunication strategist<\/p>\n
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Hans Ryding<\/strong><\/p>\nFunding and Comms team member<\/p>\n
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Aimee Fenech<\/strong><\/p>\nProject coordinator<\/p>\n
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Paul Phillips
<\/strong><\/p>\nFunding strategist<\/p>\n
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Kate Swatridge
<\/strong><\/p>\nImpact and Evaluation specialist<\/p>\n
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