by Jörn Strauss | Jan 12, 2022 | Actual, Media, Nature
In November 2021 Declan, Patrick Schulte and I visited Mallorca, Spain. Through Daniel Wahl and Mandy Merklein we connected to several people and places on the island, involved with permaculture. The Los Círculos de la Permacultura at Son Barrina was one of the sites....
by Jörn Strauss | Dec 8, 2021 | Actual, Media
Daniel Wahl interviews Declan on Mallorca in November 2021 to update the conclusion of Margrit and Declans 1996 book “Designing Ecological Settlements”. They go through the vision section one principle after the after. See pages 228 to 230....
by Declan Kennedy | Sep 1, 2021 | Actual, Media
Applied to Kennedy’s Solar-Retrofitted House The 12 Principles of Permaculture are somewhat abstract. Declan Kennedy brings them to a practical level in this short film, basing them on the 1985 to 88 retrofitting of his own house in Germany. In retrospect the...
by Jörn Strauss | Sep 1, 2021 | Actual, Media
This building, here described as a solar-retrofitted house, was originally accommodation for munitions-factory workers, built in 1938 to 39. As part of the new ecovillage Lebensgarten Steyerberg in Germany, Declan and Margrit Kennedy revamped it as a dwelling house...
by Jörn Strauss | Aug 1, 2021 | Actual, Nature
This film shows the humus toilet in Declan Kennedy’s house. It demonstrates the development from a composting to a fermenting toilet. The final product is Terra Preta (the black earth of the Amazons). The difference of the two methods (composting and fermenting)...
by Jörn Strauss | May 4, 2021 | Actual, Media
As a practitioner of Radiesthesia and Geobiology, Declan Kennedy had quite a lot of experience in working with under-earth-surface electro-magnetic fields. He was motivated to change the usually perceived negative effects of this phenomena to a possible positive...
