Clik here to view.
Review: What Your Contractor Can’t Tell You
Soon after moving to Australia, it became apparent that the local housing stock as a whole lacks some features I value; really basic stuff like being warm in the winter (i.e. insulation). Insulation,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Review: Permaculture – Principles and Pathways Beyond Sustainability
Still continuing with the book reviews; I promise to post something more original after this bout of upskilling. Anyhow, after starting to learn more about permaculture from the rather “light” and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
On residential solar PV systems
I find solar electricity production a fascinating topic. One of the curiosities of Australia is that the country is among the best in the world for solar electricity production, yet the vast majority...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Review of “Urban Homesteading” and some thoughts on food
I’ve amassed quite a few books on homesteading, urban farming, sustainability, energy efficiency, building, permaculture and related topics recently and the next up for review is no exception: Urban...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Review: The End of Growth
Almost a year ago, I read Tim Jackson’s Prosperity Without Growth that discussed the necessity of devising a financial system that isn’t dependent on economic growth. Again returning to the topic, I...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Review: Permaculture – A Designers’ Manual
After reading some texts on permaculture and finding the topic quite fascinating, I decided to learn “all” about it and read the permaculture “Bible”, Bill Mollison’s Permaculture – A Designers’...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Seeing the trees for the forest
Usually this phrase is used in reverse and figuratively, but this time I mean it like this and literally. The thing is that when I moved to Australia, I realized I can’t name most of the trees. As I...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Review: Seizing the White Space
In an effort to clear my to-read backlog before the year is over, I finished another business-oriented book; Seizing the White Space: Business Model Innovation for Growth and Renewal by Mark W....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Review: Competing for the Future
A colleague recommended an older book for me to read, Gary Hamel’s and C.K. Prahalad’s Competing for the Future – this was first published some 17 years ago, but seemed like an interesting book so I...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Review: Edible Forest Garden, vol 2: Ecological Design and Practice for...
Where volume 1 of this book was focused more on permaculture-related theory, this 640-page whopper is all (well, mostly) about practical things – a toolkit, really. And what a toolkit; without a doubt...
View Article
