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Review: Edible Forest Garden, vol 2: Ecological Design and Practice for Temperate Climate Permaculture

Posted on Dec 7, 2011 by sim

Where volume 1 of this book was focused more on permaculture-related theory, this 640-page whopper is all (well, mostly) about practical things – a toolkit, really. And what a toolkit; without a doubt the most comprehensive manual for designing and … Continue reading →

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Review: Competing for the Future

Posted on Nov 30, 2011 by sim

A colleague recommended an older book for me to read, Gary Hamel’s and C.K. Prahalad’s Competing for the Future – this was first published some 17 years ago, but seemed like an interesting book so I gave it a go. … Continue reading →

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Review: Seizing the White Space

Posted on Nov 17, 2011 by sim

In an effort to clear my to-read backlog before the year is over, I finished another business-oriented book; Seizing the White Space: Business Model Innovation for Growth and Renewal by Mark W. Johnson. It’s a pretty standard fair innovation business … Continue reading →

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Seeing the trees for the forest

Posted on Nov 6, 2011 by sim

Usually this phrase is used in reverse and figuratively, but this time I mean it like this and literally. The thing is that when I moved to Australia, I realized I can’t name most of the trees. As I love … Continue reading →

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Review: Permaculture – A Designers’ Manual

Posted on Oct 10, 2011 by sim

After reading some texts on permaculture and finding the topic quite fascinating, I decided to learn “all” about it and read the permaculture “Bible”, Bill Mollison’s Permaculture – A Designers’ Manual. This huge book is the textbook for the Permaculture … Continue reading →

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