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Created: Feb 22, 2008
Updated: Oct 19, 2009
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Mark Warner
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Areas of Focus
Soil Conservation and Management
(1146 people) | Farm Ecosystem Management
(1283 people) | Environmental Education
(3384 people) | Renewable Energy
(3926 people) | Economic Development
(1763 people) | Agroforestry
(684 people) | Natural Resource Conservation
(1630 people) | Sustainable Livelihoods
(2711 people) | Local Food Systems
(2859 people) | Leadership Training
(2496 people) | Sustainability Education
(4207 people) | EcoVillages
(2799 people) | Industrial Ecology
(781 people) | Agricultural Water Conservation and Management
(1200 people) | Business Firm and Organization Sustainability
(3026 people) | Culture and Sustainability
(2704 people) | Land Stewardship
(1628 people) | Land Restoration
(1334 people) | Landscape Ecology
(954 people) | Sustainability and Technology
(2126 people) | Natural Resource Management
(1319 people) | Global Governance
(1138 people) | Religion and Ecology
(1197 people) | Sustainable Energy Development
(3890 people) | Energy Security and Sustainability
(1204 people) | Energy Flow in Ecosystems
(869 people) | Education, Government and Sustainability
(2055 people) | Biological Development
(672 people) | Agricultural Policy
(1264 people) | Urban Ecology
(1649 people) | Community Participation
(3635 people) | Urban Forestry
(772 people) | Sustainable Urban and Regional Planning
(1928 people) | Sustainable Forestry
(1854 people) | Sustainable Communities
(4074 people) | Agroecology
(1167 people) | Sustainability, Religious and Spiritual Issues
(2675 people) | Precautionary Principle
(459 people) | Restoration Ecology
(1214 people) | Social Development
(1977 people) | Permaculture
(3262 people) | Peace and Peace Building
(3168 people) | Community Resources
(1766 people) | Conflict Resolution
(1849 people) | Rural Development
(1494 people) | Community Training
(1722 people) | Good Governance
(1196 people) | Composting
(2169 people) | Conservation Policy
(746 people) | Wilderness
(1761 people) | Sustainable Production
(2468 people) | Climate Change
(4730 people) | Ecosystem Services
(1326 people) | Gardening
(3095 people) | Sustainable Agriculture
(4017 people) | Dialogue, Deliberation and Consensus-Building
(1939 people) | Ecological Footprint
(2223 people) | Aquaculture
(553 people)
About
My lifelong interest in nature led me first to a concern for conservation, then a protagonist of permaculture. Being a person with a broad range of interests and a natural capacity for making connections I found in permaculture design a system that enabled me to develop wholistically.
After a short career as a computer programmer, I became a volunteer at the Willsbridge Mill Nature Reserve, worked at a tree nursery and as an agricultural labourer before going to agricultural college to study Rural Resources and their Management. Whilst at college (though not through my course) I learnt about permaculture from Andy Langford. After college, I attended a Permaculture Design Course run by Andy and Graham Bell (with the good fortune of Bill Mollison joining us for four days) in 1989. After that I became a civil servant, dealing with planning issues at the Department of Environment.
Finding that 9-5 office work was driving me mad, I ditched the job and devoted myself to Bristol Permaculture Group, further training and project development. After attending an Ecovillage Design Course with Max Lindegger, I set up the Eco-Village Network, U.K. (as part of the Global Ecovillage Network). In the late '90s, once all the old members of the Bristol Permaculture Group had gone off to set up projects elsewhere and a new bunch of people had come in with their own agenda, and my dealings with Bristol City Council had come to an infuriatingly dissappointing end, I went back to college to take a masters in Local Environmental Management and Sustainability, but I never completed the course.
In 1999 I moved to London to live with my wife. I was invited by Alpay Torgut to teach a session on Bioregionalism on a Naturewise Permaculture Design Course. My involvement with Naturewise increased and when Alpay moved to Wales he handed over the London Naturewise courses to a team of people, including Nicole Freris, Graham Burnett and myself.
My interest in bioregional development has been distilled into a project to integrate top-down and bottom-up technologies called CoBrA (Community Bioregional Action).
I am a member of the Buddhist ley organisation, Soka Gakkai International (International Society for the Creation of Value) and, having met the Buddhism of nichiren Daishonin at the same time as permaculture, have always seen them as the two wheels of my cart, as it were.
I am currently writing a series of science fiction novels with hopes to publish in the not too distant future. Science fiction is another great interest of mine - a litereary genre that provides opportunities to examine profound issues of life while exercising the imagination.
Other interests include angling, cycling, music (incluiding baroque, romantic, psychodelia, rock'n''roll, rhythm&blues, progressive rock and indie - my favourite ever band is XTC, my favourite dance track is John Fred's version of John Lee Hooker's 'Boogie Children').
I have been employed in many ways - from gardener to legal representative. I'm with a casting agency and do occasional jobs as a 'supporting artiste' (extra) in film and television.
After a short career as a computer programmer, I became a volunteer at the Willsbridge Mill Nature Reserve, worked at a tree nursery and as an agricultural labourer before going to agricultural college to study Rural Resources and their Management. Whilst at college (though not through my course) I learnt about permaculture from Andy Langford. After college, I attended a Permaculture Design Course run by Andy and Graham Bell (with the good fortune of Bill Mollison joining us for four days) in 1989. After that I became a civil servant, dealing with planning issues at the Department of Environment.
Finding that 9-5 office work was driving me mad, I ditched the job and devoted myself to Bristol Permaculture Group, further training and project development. After attending an Ecovillage Design Course with Max Lindegger, I set up the Eco-Village Network, U.K. (as part of the Global Ecovillage Network). In the late '90s, once all the old members of the Bristol Permaculture Group had gone off to set up projects elsewhere and a new bunch of people had come in with their own agenda, and my dealings with Bristol City Council had come to an infuriatingly dissappointing end, I went back to college to take a masters in Local Environmental Management and Sustainability, but I never completed the course.
In 1999 I moved to London to live with my wife. I was invited by Alpay Torgut to teach a session on Bioregionalism on a Naturewise Permaculture Design Course. My involvement with Naturewise increased and when Alpay moved to Wales he handed over the London Naturewise courses to a team of people, including Nicole Freris, Graham Burnett and myself.
My interest in bioregional development has been distilled into a project to integrate top-down and bottom-up technologies called CoBrA (Community Bioregional Action).
I am a member of the Buddhist ley organisation, Soka Gakkai International (International Society for the Creation of Value) and, having met the Buddhism of nichiren Daishonin at the same time as permaculture, have always seen them as the two wheels of my cart, as it were.
I am currently writing a series of science fiction novels with hopes to publish in the not too distant future. Science fiction is another great interest of mine - a litereary genre that provides opportunities to examine profound issues of life while exercising the imagination.
Other interests include angling, cycling, music (incluiding baroque, romantic, psychodelia, rock'n''roll, rhythm&blues, progressive rock and indie - my favourite ever band is XTC, my favourite dance track is John Fred's version of John Lee Hooker's 'Boogie Children').
I have been employed in many ways - from gardener to legal representative. I'm with a casting agency and do occasional jobs as a 'supporting artiste' (extra) in film and television.