Delvin Solkinson

“Everything we do has a ripple effect, and if we respond with a sense of hope and responsibility then those ripples can be enormous and positive” - Looby Macnamara

Inspired about the Cultural Emergence card deck that permaculture teacher and senior diploma tutor Looby Macnamara is creating. These insightful and beautiful tools for personal and collective transformation will bring new life to any permaculture practice.

Join the journey and help us manifest something profound, practical and fun to take your design life to the next level. 

Support this conscious permaculture crowdfunder by backing a deck today. 
www.kickstarter.com/projects/loobymacnamara/cultural-emergence-card-deck/

“What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” - Mary Oliver

Permaculture Design Deck 2022
Free Download
www.permaculturedesign.earth/designdeck
Limited edition hardcopy also available.

Sharing the Secrets of Natures Success, permaculture is a toolkit for becoming a more effective decision maker and designer. Skill up and become better. Take your design life to the next level.

Creative card deck sharing a collection of permaculture principles, strategies, attitudes, tools & frameworks. 230 cards to support your permaculture practice, learning, teaching, designing and consulting. Serves as a design tool, game and oracle. New version rewritten at ancient sacred sites in Ireland.

Sharing the essence of permaculture design learned by Delvin Solkinson from Bill Mollison, Rosemary Morrow, David Holmgren, Robin Clayfield, Geoff Lawton, Graham Bell, Michael Becker, Toby Hemenway, Larry Santoyo, Susun Weed, Tom Ward, Jude Hobbs, Starhawk & Looby Macnamara. Additional contributions were inspired by Rob Hopkins, Dave Boehnlein, Max Lindegger, Richard Wallner, Mark Lakeman, Doug Bullock, Andrew Faust, Penny Livingston-Stark, Ian McHarg and P.A. Yeomans.
Ever grateful for project support from Permaculture Association, Permaculture Institute, Permaculture Academy & Permaculture Australia

Core inspiration from Robin Clayfield who helped to vastly upgrade the new edition. Ultimate thanks to permaculture Jedi Larry Santoyo, without him this project would never have happened. Deep gratitude to Looby Macnamara whose visionary creativity uplifted this to the next level. Heartfelt thanks to Graham Bell whose wisdom lights this project up.

Awesome gratitude to our core team at the heart of this work
Grace Solkinson, Kym Chi, Dana Wilson, Annaliese Hordern, Tamara Griffiths Special thanks to Jason Gerhardt, Maddy Harland, Wilf Richards, Chris Evans and Aranya for ongoing mentorship and support that unlocked this deck. Grateful to Tamara Griffiths who helped identify many of the principles in early versions of the deck.

This work is the culmination of 20 years of Permaculture Design study by Delvin Solkinson which spanned 13 advanced courses and 13 teacher trainings, a PDC, Diploma and Masters Degree with Bill Mollison, a second Diploma through the Permaculture Institute, a third Diploma through the Permaculture Association with Looby Macnamara, and a Doctorate through the Permaculture Academy and Larry Santoyo. This newest version of the Permaculture Design Deck is a core project in an ongoing Post-Doc in Permaculture Education.
Art by Brenna Quinlan Design by Alexa Spaddy Text Design by Sijay James Onbeyond Metamedia

This deck is a companion for the Permaculture Design Notes and Permaculture Design Elements Game. Together they form a toolkit sharing a creative essence of Permaculture Design. All are free downloads and available as limited edition hardcopies.
www.permaculturedesign.earth

Scaling up Permaculture
FreeMasterclass with Rosemary Morrow and Maddy Harland

Exploring the new edges of permaculture in the world today.

Download this audio podcast or stream it while walking, working, cleaning, exercising, designing or pausing.
https://soundcloud.com/delvinsolkinson/scaling-up-permaculture-masterclass


Rosemary Morrow
www.bluemountainspermacultureinstitute.com.au

Maddy Harland, Permaculture Magazine and Permanent publications
www.permaculture.co.uk

Envoy : Delvin & Grace Solkinson
www.permaculturedesign.earth

UN SGDs www.sdgs.un.org
Act for SDGs www.act4sdgs.org

Art by Brenna Quinlan www.brennaquinlan.com

"Create a clearing in the dense forest of your life and wait there patiently, until the song that is your life falls into your own cupped hands and you recognize and greet it." - Martha Postlewaite

Adventures in learning. Activating creativity. Motivating progress. Uplifting life. Join Looby Macnamara and Delvin Solkinson for a uniquely creative podcast about Permaculture Design and Cultural Emergence. Listen or download here https://www.soundcloud.com/delvinsolkinson/adventures-in-learning

"Learning is finding out that you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, and teachers." — Richard Bach

Announcing a historic new online permaculture learning opportunity : a Group Diploma Adventure. Self-directed, participant driven learning journey with the support of a global team of like minded group. Pursue a Permaculture Design Diploma through the Permaculture Association or Institute as part of a Permaculture Learning Guild.

Online meetups with the full group ever second month. Peer meetups. One-on-One’s with Delvin Solkinson or Looby Macnamara. Design evaluations with support from Wilf Richards and KT Shepherd . Online toolkit of resources, upgrades and learning opportunities. Evolutionary fun getting motivated to set and accomplish your own learning goals. Resume boosting Foundations Diploma after 6 months and a full Permaculture Design Diploma after 2-3 years. Self-paced program with flexibility for any lifestyle.

https://www.applewoodcourses.com/uk_courses/diploma/

Permaculture illustration by beloved art activist Brenna Quinlan

"Information is the most portable and flexible investment we can make in our lives; it represents the knowledge, experience, ideas and experimentation of thousands of people before us." - Bill Mollison and Reny Slay

Sharing a free download : Permaculture Design Notes book web edition!  https://www.permaculturedesign.earth//permaculturedesignnotes

A global collaboration with permaculture pioneers, teachers and elders. Sharing a clear, concise and accessible synthesis of permaculture design from the Permaculture Design Certificate Course (PDC) as well as a teaching manual sharing top tips for teaching any subject. Includes best practices for planting, seed saving, food preservation, medicine making & green building.

Delvin entirely volunteers to produce this work and gives thanks to source inspiration and learning from his teachers Bill Mollison, Rosemary Morrow, Larry Santoyo, Toby Hemenway, Looby Macnamara, David Holmgren, Robin Clayfield, Michael Becker, Starhawk, Patricia Michael, Geoff Lawton, Mark Lakeman, Max Lindegger, Sam Bullock, Doug Bullock, Tomi Hazel, Jude Hobbs, Susun Weed, Robyn Francis, April Sampson-Kelly, Graham Bell, Aranya, Chris Evans and many more. 

Deepest thanks to the core team for epic level contributions : Grace Solkinson, Kym Chi, Dana Wilson, Tamara Griffiths and Annaliese Hordern. Grateful for proof reading from Niki Hammond, Tes Tesla, Stephanie Johnson & Katie Houle. Thanks for amazing illustration by Brenna Quinlan and inspired design by Alexa Spaddy. Extra thanks for art from Ben Tour and Martin Bridge.

"Information is the most portable and flexible investment we can make in our lives; it represents the knowledge, experience, ideas and experimentation of thousands of people before us." - Bill Mollison and Reny Slay

Free Download : Permaculture Design Notes book web edition!
https://www.permaculturedesign.earth/permaculturedesignnotes

A global collaboration with permaculture pioneers, teachers and elders.
Sharing a clear, concise and accessible synthesis of permaculture design from the Permaculture Design Certificate Course (PDC) as well as a teaching manual sharing top tips for teaching any subject. Includes best practices for planting, seed saving, food preservation, medicine making & green building.

Delvin entirely volunteers to produce this work and gives thanks to source inspiration and learning from his teachers Bill Mollison, Rosemary Morrow, Larry Santoyo, Toby Hemenway, Looby Macnamara, David Holmgren, Robin Clayfield, Michael Becker, Starhawk, Patricia Michael, Geoff Lawton, Mark Lakeman, Max Lindegger, Sam Bullock, Doug Bullock, Tomi Hazel, Jude Hobbs, Susun Weed, Robyn Francis, April Sampson-Kelly, Graham Bell, Aranya, Chris Evans and many more. 

Deepest thanks to the core team for epic level contributions : Grace Solkinson, Kym Chi, Dana Wilson, Tamara Griffiths and Annaliese Hordern. Grateful for proof reading from Niki Hammond, Tes Tesla, Stephanie Johnson & Katie Houle. Thanks for amazing illustration by Brenna Quinlan and inspired design by Alexa Spaddy. Extra thanks for art from Ben Tour and Martin Bridge.

Please share this free resource widely.

"Listen to nature's voice, it contains treasures for you" - Huron Tribe proverb

Joyed to have a full hardcover proof of the new Permaculture Design Notes Book sharing curriculum from the PDC, a teachers manual and information on medicine making and food preservation.

What a journey over 19 years and so many different editions before reaching this stage as a fully articulated textbook!

This will be a free download online for all.

Also making a special, hand numbered, limited edition printing of the 2021 version of the book.

Delvin entirely volunteers to create this work.

Thanks to the core team Delvin & Grace Solkinson, Kym Chi, Dana Wilson, Tamara Griffiths, Annaliese Hordern, Brenna Quinlan & Alexa Spaddy. Also to proof readers including Niki Hammond, Tes Tesla, Stephanie Johnson & Kate Houle. Deep thanks go to my core teachers Bill Mollison, Rosemary Morrow, Larry Santoyo, Toby Hemenway, Looby Macnamara, David Holmgren, Robin Clayfield, Michael Becker, Starhawk, Patricia Michael, Geoff Lawton, Mark Lakeman, Max Lindegger, Sam Bullock, Doug Bullock, Tomi Hazel, Jude Hobbs, Susun Weed, Robyn Francis, April Sampson-Kelly, Graham Bell, Aranya, Chris Evans and many more

https://www.permaculturedesign.earth/permaculturedesignnotes