An inspirational indigenous Maori woman, Tania has been an active permie for many years, based in Devonport. She is a highly effective community organiser, teacher and activist who always brings her indigenous worldview into her life’s work in Northwest Tasmania. She is a wonderful role model for a permaculture way of life, bringing the principles and ethics into all she does. Tania is a facilitator with Gentle Footprints Permaculture in Launceston, teaching part of the recurring annual Permaculture Design Course and Introduction to Permaculture courses with various community grassroots organisations.
Tania is the Tasmanian convenor of the Community Exchange Network Tasmania (CENTs) trading through the Simbi platform https://simbi.com/tania-brookes/welcome and has previously held the position of national co Administrator for the Community Exchange System in Australia (CES) trading with LETS groups around Australia. Tania is passionate about community currencies and alternative economics incorporating community building, resilience, adaptation and social permaculture.
Seed Libraries for Northwest Tasmania were set up by Tania with assistance from local volunteers located at Live Well Tasmania in Wynyard and the RESEED Centre in Penguin. Tania has worked on many permaculture related projects including a local seed saving network, Community Exchange trading days and Permaculture Huddles to capture and catalogue local permaculture related resources. Tania enjoys working on the “edge effect” sharing with community organisations around sustainability initiatives.
Tania has published with UK Permaculutre Works Roots Issue Spring 2021 Indigenous Earth Care: Prologue to Permaculture
In Post Growth Australia Podcast – Tasmanian Series, Tania talks about the importance of permaculture and community https://pgap.fireside.fm/tasperspect1
Permaculture elder and Medium Permaculture Journal Blogger Russ Grayson interviews Tania here:
https://medium.com/permaculture-3-0/meeting-tania-99f124ba84fb