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Ice on a window

Communications at the Finnish Permaculture Association

by Nick
on
at Diploma in Applied Permaculture Design

The idea for this design started in 2017 during a meeting of the Finnish Permaculture Association. When I became chairman of the board in 2019 I was in a unique position. The association was in transition towards sociocratic circular method. The…

Testing the Flir c2 thermal cam at Beyond Buckthorns permaculture Laitikkala

Testing the Flir c2 thermal cam

by Nick
on
at Energy

Before Christmas 2019 we bought a FLIR cam, a thermal image camera. With that cam it is possible to detect leaks of warmth in a building. It shows temperature as colour as an overlay over a normal photo.

Permaculture meeting in Koroinen

Piirit Koroisilla

by Lumia
on
at finnish permaculture association

The Finnish Permaculture Associations events are always nice. This autumn we met in Koroinen, Turku. Read all about it!

Biogas workshop at Beyond Buckthorns

Templating a workshop

by Nick
on
at Diploma in Applied Permaculture Design

Designing a biogas workshop that can be delivered over and over again. Creating a workshop blueprint.

first designCamp at Beyond Buckthorns - participants

Permablitz designCamp

by Nick
on
at Diploma in Applied Permaculture Design

In early 2020 we bought the neighbors 0,5ha pine forest / recreational spot that was years back sold to them by Lumia's, my wife’s parents. The neighbors wanted to sell and for us it was a good opportunity to buy. Lumia then started the process…

Introducing the PermaCafé at the associations meeting

Welcome to the PermaCafe

by Nick
on
at Diploma in Applied Permaculture Design

Over the past years the Finnish permaculture association used all kinds of different tools and processes to get members involved. The following design used permaculture ethics and principles to introduce a new social design tool called PermaCafé…