Blog by Dominik Jais

For my book Digital Permaculture, I examined websites run by permaculture organisations in 2023. How much data does a page load transfer, and what might that mean for its carbon footprint? I collected the figures by hand, then repeated the exercise in 2025 for a presentation for the Permaculture Association Britain. In October 2026, I looked at 32 organisations again; 27 websites could be measured.

In October I gave a Campfire presentation about Digital Permaculture for the Permaculture Association in the UK. The Campfire series is a space where practitioners share ideas, projects, and experiments with the wider permaculture community.

As part of the event, the talk was recorded. I expected that the recording would eventually appear online, so that others could access the content afterwards.

While the new year is still fresh, I took some time to look back. At the European Permaculture Network (EuPN), we track site visits via Matomo. Matomo is a privacy-focuse open-source alternative to Google Analytics. Since we also host the EuPN on our own server, we have access to the raw server log files as well.

At the beginning of each year, the European Permaculture Network (EuPN) hosts the PermaTalks – a lecture and discussion series running every Thursday at 18:30 CET, from 15 January to 5 March.

We’re currently looking for one additional discussion guest for two upcoming PermaTalks:
• Permaculture Courses – share your experience in teaching, structuring, or improving courses.
• Permaculture Project Implementation – bring your perspective from real-life design and implementation work.

On the 14th of October 2025 I gave a presentation / talk about Digital Permaculture for members of the Permaculture Association Britain

I used up all the taking time - over 1 hour, hence there was no time for discussions at the end. I promised to answer any questions by mail. 

My Digital Permaculture book is today 1 year old. JUHU. Let's celebrate! I have stacked some hardcopies - and sell them signed for 26,- € including shipping (within Europe + UK). https://dominikjais.com/form/digital-permaculture-europe