The Permaculture Research Institute of Australia

I am an active permaculture practitioner, currently living and working in the Palestinian West Bank, as the coordinator of the Green Intifada Campaign: a land-based resistance initiative aimed at supporting Palestinian farmers in retaining and cultivating their land. I am also just starting out as a permaculture teacher, working with Bustan (www.bustan.org) in the Negev desert in Israel. I teach PDC courses in the Bedouin village of Qasr A Sir and support community development initiatives there.

I am involved in trying to build bridges between the Bedouin citizens of Israel and the Palestinian residents of Area C to share their common experiences in land based resistance, self-sufficiency and adaptation to climate change in the face of increasingly aggressive attempts to displace them by Israeli authorities. I am particularly interested in the political aspects of permaculture, and in developing models for applying permaculture principles to community organising.