London Permaculture Festival 2014

Managed Retreat issue 1, edging out of frame top right at the 2014 London Permaculture Festival.

Amphibious Building

AMPHIBIOUS BUILDING One built on a dry site but designed to float in times of flood #dictionaryofurbanism
— Rob Cowan (@cowanrob) March 25, 2014

Sacrifice

We can't put a concrete wall around Britain: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-26511229

Thames estuary airport

The outer Thames estuary airport plan, which just seems wrong on so many different levels, one wonder how any money was ever raised to promote it. Developers the Thames Estuary Research and Development Company (TESTRAD) have made suggestions about what should happen to Heathrow in their airport scenario, I've written about this as a Permaculture Garden[ing] Suburb here.

Greenhouse Britain

Greenhouse Britain

http://greenhousebritain.greenmuseum.org/exhibition/virtual-exhibition/

Managed Retreat Issue 1

Managed Retreat - Issue 1

Managed Retreat - Issue 1 - the print edition launches Saturday 20th July 2013 at the Eastern Region Permaculture Gathering.

Managed Retreat is an occasional journal of the English orient - it's bioregional & geopoetic, it promotes an ecological Englishness and comes with an eastern flavour. It's about nature & culture. This is the front cover & some of the contents.

Currently available for £5 postage inc.(barter if you've got something interesting!). See the Print Edition page for order details.

Managed Retreat Issue 1

Managed Retreat Issue 1, a set on Flickr.

The print issue is getting close to release, here's a little preview, with glimpses of layout ideas from the concept design phase - hand-drawn in pencil and electronic using the open source DTP software Scribus (thanks to Graham Burnett for drawing that to my attention).

The official launch is planned for the Eastern Region Permaculture Gathering in Suffolk on the weekend of 14th July, with a thought for another event in Essex at the Railway Hotel in Southend-on-Sea - more information posted here when a date is confirmed.