Winter 2009 (PM 62)
| Living without money |
| Mark Boyle tells us how he does it so well that a year’s experiment is being extended indefinitely |
| Is Transition working? |
| Gil Seyfang presents the result of the first UK Transition Movement survey. PM Exclusive |
| The winter allotment |
| Plan some practical allotment projects. Paul Wagland offers some useful tips and ideas |
| Building a zero-carbon country |
| Donnachadh McCarthy meets Bil Dunster and discovers his visionary yet practical plan for genuinely sustainable buildings |
| The joy of juice |
| Wade Muggleton urges us all to get juicing and shares his tips for simple apple cider |
| Sustainable beekeeping |
| Part Two of David Heaf’s popular article on how to make a Warré hive |
| Growing permaculture in Malawi |
| How permaculture has become part of the national curriculum in this central African country |
| Grofun |
| Nadia Hilman introduces a clever and easily replicable initiative for urban food self-reliance |
| Transition to economic resilience |
| Rob Hopkins explores how permacuture principles can be applied to business |
| Afraid of speaking your mind? |
| An effective way of resolving conflicts and building harmonious communites by Rob Dreaming |
| How to prepare for when the power does down |
| A householder’s guide to coping well when the national power supplies overload and fail |
| The recycled urban garden |
| Patrick Whitefield visits a productive low-cost urban garden that thrives even in the shade |
| Solar powered greenhouse |
| How to make a year round fossil-fuel free heating and cooling system for an ordinary greenhouse by Andrew Colins |
Autumn 2009 (PM 61)
| My kitchen garden |
| Emma Cooper describes the summertime flourishings of her prolific urban patch |
| Reconnecting land and people |
| Why is planning so hard to get for genuine low impact development? Mike Hannis visits projects and explores what needs to change |
| Sustainable beekeeping |
| With global honeybee populations plummeting, David Heaf offers a possible solution in the form of the Warré hive |
| Cycling for sustainability |
| Juliet Kemp’s useful tips for ditching the car and converting to pedal power for our daily transport |
| A stitch in time |
| How climate change and peak oil has inspired John-Paul Flintoff to shun the fashion industry and make and mend his own clothes |
| Permaculture principles |
| Maddy Harland takes a fresh look at the principles that underpin permaculture design |
| Creating harmony |
| Michiyo Furuhashi introduces a Japanese ecovillage that is almost entirely self-sufficient and is teaching sustainable agriculture to its neighbours |
| The art of reading the landscape |
| Understanding landscape is not only fun, it is a vital way of understanding sustainability and reconnecting with the Earth. Patrick Whitefield explains why |
| A new woodsman's tale |
| How PM made Ian Varley’s mid-life crisis definitely worth having, enabling him to live his dream and make a living working with wood |
| Champion the lumber horse |
| Mike Abbott describes how to make a modern, efficient shaving horse from mainly scrap materials in just a couple of hours |
| Les porcs in permaculture |
| How to be happy keeping pigs in permaculture. Stuart & Gabrielle Anderson share their experience of raising pigs on their smallholding in France |
| Catch 'n' store water |
| With climate change threatening drought as well as flood, Daniel Halsey explains how to design resilience into your orchard or farm |
Summer 2009 (PM 60)
| Permaculture, peak oil and the future of farming |
| Rebecca Hosking, maker of BBC2’s ‘A Farm For The Future’, looks at the challenges to conventional farming and how permaculture can help overcome them |
| Ethics in permaculture |
| Maddy Harland writes about how ethics can underpin good design and right action in permaculture |
| Grow-our-own |
| The story of a highly successful community allotment scheme that practically helps people grow and pick their own food |
| Building a simple wood-fired oven and cooking in it |
| Urban forager, Chris Southall, shares his outdoor cooking design – build and eat! |
| The 100 mile diet |
| How foodie, Beth Tilston, ate close to home for almost a year and fell in love with her landscape |
| Chickens in a small garden |
| Meet Pebbles and Bambam and find out how they fit into Tracy Chandler’s family and their small town garden |
| Alchemy of land and wood |
| Fuggo King describes the journey she and her partner, Geoff, made from subsistence crofting to combining art with permaculture |
| 10 tips for green days out |
| Fun family days out that won’t break the bank or ruin your carbon footprint, with Alison Bayne |
| The tale of an eco semi |
| How David & Ann Bowdler, renovated an ordinary house and halved their eco-footprint |
| Earthcare, peoplecare, skincare |
| Star Khechara shows us how to make natural beauty potions and products and save money too |
| The magic of green woodworking |
| Mike Abbott explains why green woodworking has an important place in the 21st century |
| Smart agriculture |
| With food prices rising all over the world, Chris Evans describes how farmers have increased rice yields simply by sharing information |