Finn Mackesy and Gabrielle Parson report on the Community Resilience Forum held last month and look ahead to the second forum this weekend where they will build on the issues raised last month and look at how to make our community more resilient for the future.

With a community resilience meeting this weekend, Finn and Aaron talk about what this word means for everything from humans, to the natural world through to engineered systems - and also how a healthy social/emotional community is essential for human resilience during times of crisis when the focus is usually on meeting basic needs.

The industrial age's drive to control the natural world is clearly failing so what can permaculture tell us about a different way forward. Finn Mackesy joins us to talk about the last of the permaculture design principles.

The 11th permaculture design principle feels like the opposite of large monoculture farming systems so what is the benefit and how do we apply it.

Just how widely can we apply this permaculture design principle? Finn Mackesy joins us to talk about how it will apply to everything from your garden to national politics.

In our world that is fast and furious what can we learn from the permaculture design principal of Small and Slow Solutions and what do the lessons mean for the future of our society.

It sounds like advice for good race relations but this it turns out this is how the natural world operates which is why David Holmgren chose it as a Permaculture Design Principal. Finn Mackesy is in studio to talk about the principle and how complexity is normal in the natural world and how new things can emerge from this complexity.

Modern culture has created patterns that aren't easy to see for a human being. Are we ironing out the details or heading to ecological crisis? Do we even know what our modern patterns are at this stage? Finn Mackesy is in studio for a second conversation about the Design Prinicple; Design from pattern to detail and how it can be applied to so many aspects of our lives.

What does gorse reveal about the natural pattern of our landscape? What's the natural size of a village of human beings? Where should be we put our house? Finn Mackesy joins us to discuss the permaculture design principle; Design from Pattern to Detail

We know a lot about this in our community but there is a lot more to the discussion that we might realise. Finn Mackesy is in studio to look at this Permaculture Design Principle.