About Bill Mollison
Founder and director of the Permaculture Institute, Bill is the most experienced Permaculture teacher and designer today. He has taught and developed projects from the Arctic through Sub-tropics and Equatorial regions of the planet. There are few countries left in the world where he has not personally planted the seeds of Permaculture. The Peoples of the Pacific, South East Asia, South Africa and seven Amazonian language groups have been inspired by and acted on his teachings, embracing Permaculture as a dynamic tool. He has also given Courses in the drylands and developed projects with Native Americans, Indigenous Australians, tribal women of the Deccan, Kalahari, San groups and Pima people of the Sonora. In the USA, Europe and Scandinavia, Bill has lectured and helped to develop ecological designs for urban and rural properties, including many city-farms and CSA’s (Community Supported Agriculture).
Bill Mollison has been vitally concerned with the environment for over 40 years. His many roles include: scientist, naturalist and University professor. Later he became a vigorous campaigner against environmental exploitation which lead him to develop Permaculture as a positive solution.
Since then, Bill has devoted his energies towards designing sustainable systems, writing books and articles on Permaculture, and most importantly teaching.
Permaculture now laps the globe, resulting in hundreds of independent associations involved in the areas of sustainable agriculture, reforestation, education and village economics. His enduring commitment and endless enthusiasm continues as the span and scope of Permaculture broadens.
True to his vision, throughout the world, Permaculture is becoming an everyday part of life.
For more detailed information see Bill Mollison’s Curriculum Vitae.
Also see Bill Mollison’s Personal Statement.
September 27th, 2006 at 3:12 am
Hello:
We ahve 1.3 hectars or about 3.2 acres in the Philippines. We have not got the best of drainage and do have a steep slope that takes up about half the property. We have a spot about
75 x 25 foot that we would like to put into a fish pond. We have another area of 75 to 110 foot in a close back yard area that we would like to develope into a permiculture and vegetables.
We currently have a few raised beds that seem to be doing well. We also raise quail which we are phasing out. We are increasing our projects that involve chickens, ducks, guinea hens and turkeys. We would like to add geese.
We are doing well with the chickens and the ducks. The guinea hens have not started to lay yet.
We would like to add pigs and have some experience with them in the past. We would like to have a few goats for milk and to make cheese. We would lastly, but not least(ly) like to add rabbits which we also have some
experience with.
We have several public and private nurseries on this island. We would like to be self suffient for fruit (and vegetable) production in a few years. We can go to the main island (Luzon) and get plants of necessary.
We appreciate any guidance for our project.
James J. Claire
Santol, Boac, Marinduque, Philippines 4900
February 9th, 2007 at 4:52 am
Hi
I just came upon your question you probaly have a answer by now if not contact me i also come to the PHILIPPINES .I have run course there and if you can get enough interest i could run a course for you.I do like to get some payment if possiable to help with my travel cost.
cheers
Greg Knibbs
June 7th, 2007 at 7:32 pm
Bill, I am after more info on this: can you please email or mail to me? (postal address is 79 Granya Grove Mt Eliza VIC 3930) THANKS in advance -
Around the 1930s, all of Paris and all of Chicago ran on compressed air - all the cars, buses and trams. They made compressed air by dropping a small stream of water about 200 metres down a pipe and feeding air bubbles into it - it’s a simple technology that we could do here very easily. They piped the air throughout the cities. All these cars had a little three-cubic-foot cylinder under the seat, and that ran the car with a small nine-horsepower steam engine. The best part was that the exhaust was silently whispering out icy cold air - you could put a hamper on the back with your vodka and your chicken. Everything was chilled as you travelled to your picnic and then you could catch a fish, throw it in the hamper and go home for dinner. When oil companies really started to take off, there were all these pitiful letters in the compressed air magazines from scientists and engineers, saying: “Don’t be stupid. What will happen to the atmosphere if you burn petrol for cars?” They warned us all, “Don’t ever walk away from this clean technology.” And we did walk away from it.
What do you see as the downside of technology?
July 6th, 2007 at 1:10 am
hi gregg , bill featured on abc tv many yrs ago for his work around the world, it was his own doco ,can you tell me where i can get a copy of this on dvd ? many thanks
Ross Booth
August 24th, 2007 at 6:57 pm
At the PDC, Melbourne, January 2007, Bill spoke of a visit to the Hawaiian Island of Moloka’i. Can any one tell me the dates that he was there and the place he worked?
October 30th, 2007 at 6:15 pm
I would like to know your opinion, about create a permaculture area, place of recreation to teach young children how to have and live in a better world.
thanks, Alice
November 20th, 2007 at 5:57 am
A lasting memory of the Bill Mollison TV series was Bill sittinglaying out newspapers as the base for planting …with the comment…Puts some use to all of the bad news that newprint carries….Let’s have some positive good newsin the future…..
I have incorporated the technique…in America it is sometimes called ‘Lasagne’ Gardening… It has seen my plantsthrough the lack of rain…Even the Sydney Water truck stares…I am sure he thinks that I water more days than the Sunday and Wednesday as allowed…Just something I learned years agofrom Bill….