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Baganihan Collective · Community situation report, July 2026
Communities face rising uncertainty from climate, the economy, and global instability, yet the effects land locally. This first report is a guide to seeing change early, strengthening what a community already has, and deciding together through systems thinking and Community Continuity Management.
Hubert Joseph Balana Posadas · Baganihan Collective, October 2026
Hubert Joseph Balana Posadas argues that Philippine land and infrastructure planning still assumes a stable climate and a predictable global economy, and that the answer is ecological design joined to organised community capacity. Part one of a series from the Baganihan Collective.
Hubert Joseph Balana Posadas · Baganihan Collective, October 2026
Hubert Joseph Balana Posadas asks what permanent culture has to include if communities are to stay functional under stress. Drawing on risk management and community security work in the Philippines, he reads bayanihan as distributed capacity and argues that security may already be part of the culture permaculture is trying to design.
Flores and Buot · UP Los Baños · Journal of Nature Studies, 2023
Two UP researchers spent three months on twelve Filipino farms asking seventeen practitioners what permaculture means to them. Three different answers came back, and each one showed up in the shape of the land.
Flores and colleagues · UP Open University · IJODeL, 2017
Can a Facebook friendship carry permaculture from one garden to another? A UP Open University team scored 286 connections and found fourteen strong enough to count as living corridors across Luzon.
Baganihan Collective · Workshop held 25 June 2026
A full-day parent-child learning journey in permaculture gardening and primitive pottery, hosted by Baganihan Collective at Pacita Organic Garden.
homefortheharvest.com · Getting started
Permaculture gets thrown around a lot, but rarely explained well. It is not just organic gardening. It is a design system that applies to backyards, communities, and entire ways of living.
masterclass.com · Beginner
Understanding permaculture and knowing what to do with that knowledge is equally important. How to read your space, what to prioritize first, and what you can realistically start in a week.
permacultureprinciples.com · Beginner
These are the thinking tools behind every permaculture decision. Systems Thinking — how to read your space, what to prioritize.
permacultureapprentice.com · Beginner
A food forest is a working, layered ecosystem that produces food and largely takes care of itself. If you want to see what all the concepts look like in practice, start here.
resilience.org · 2015 · Intermediate
Overview of ecosystem restoration through water capture, soil health, and biodiversity enhancement. By applying permaculture ethics, we can encourage individuals rather than institutions.
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