In this presentation I aim to look at how Permaculture principles and design processes can be applied not only to long term solutions-focused work but also to resistance movements and struggles for social and ecological justice, as well as creating beneficial relationships between these two seemingly different approaches to social change.

Permaculture, with its unique framework of ethics, principles and design tools, is commonly applied to solutions-focused activity; the ways and means of meeting our food, energy, fuel and social needs sustainably and ethically.

What are your observations of the permaculture movement so far? What have you witnessed are the limitations?

What are your observations of these movements?

E.g. local, national & international campaigns, protests, direct actions, social movements & community organising

My attempts!

• Placing permaculture in a wider context of radical social change - Liberation Permaculture
• Applying design to campaigns - Frack Free Somerset 
• Stacking resistance & long term work - Prison abolition