Welcome to Thomas Henfrey author of Permaculture and climate change adaptation

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Thomas Henfrey, with Gil Penha-Lopes, is the author of Permaculture and climate change adaptation, a research into what permaculture can do for our time. Sharing data and information on designers solutions globally this book shares a focus on what permaculture has achieved until now and what can still be done to address climate change.

There are four copies of their book, Permaculture and climate change adaptation up for grabs.
Check out the review our Mother tree, Burra Maluca, posted under the book summary

Thomas will be stopping by on the forum over the next few days answering questions and joining in discussions.

From now through this Friday, any posts in this forum, ie the forum, could be selected to win.



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The winner will be notified by email and must respond within 24 hours.

Posts in this thread won't count, but please feel free to say hi to Thomas and make him feel welcome!

Thomas, welcome! And thank you for such an important book at such a crucial time.

Sorry, which forum? The Teacher's Lounge forum?

Neil Layton wrote:Sorry, which forum? The Teacher's Lounge forum?

Yes, the Teacher's Lounge forum. I know that doesn't seem the right one according to the title of the book, at least, the way most members here would interpret it. But the book seemed very much to me to be a way of introducing permaculture concepts to people concerned about climate change, so from the point of view of most of the readership of permies.com it is more of a tool for teaching others rather than ourselves, and we wanted to encourage members to think about the book from that perspective.

Check out the review and hopefully it will paint a better picture of the book and its intended audience.

I've read Tom and Gil's book and I think it's a useful book to have on my shelf. It's a pleasant reminder of the positive impact permaculture design and designers are having; people are helping to mitigate against climate change.

There's a poster I helped produce, that gives a little insight into the book. It's also a way to share the topic with your friends and contacts, a 'hook' if you will. 'Hey, here's a snazzy poster that says interesting things about adapting to climate change. Have you seen there's a book about this too?' Download the poster here: permaculture and climate change poster download

Hi Thomas,
Welcome to Permies.com

Thanks to everyone for the friendly welcome, and Lorenzo and all at permies.com for running this session.

I'm currently transporting my new home, a houseboat, across the canals of Northern England to my current home town of Hebden Bridge in West Yorkshire. It's slow going but a wonderful way to travel that's reminding me how much beauty and diversity there is, often hidden away, in this part of the world. It means my internet access is intermittent, so I might not always be able to respond promptly, but I'll try to get online every day or so to see what's happening and contribute to the discussions. I see there are a few questions up already so I'll get straight on with looking at them...

So I ran the winner picker app in the forum software and we have 3 winners.

Julie Jonhston
Nataly Marchuk
and
Michael Bushman

Congratulations Julie, Nataly and Michael!
Remember once you have read the book please post a review of it under its summary
I sent you an email asking you to send me your snail address, you have to answer in 24 hrs.

Thanks Tom for being around, hope your houseboat is nearly arrived to its destination and you with her.

Thanks for inviting me to participate Lorenzo, and to everyone who contributed questions or comments. And congratulations to Julie, Nataly and Michael, I hope you all enjoy the book and look forward to reading your reviews.

And thanks for asking after my voyage: I just today reached my destination (for now - not quite at the community growing project where I intend to stay as the canal between here and there is closed for repairs) after 11 days and over 100 locks; it's been a glorious trip.