Earth Sustaining Symbiotic Biotechnology

Richard Barker (honoris causa)

Senior Fellow

Richard Barker is a Permaculture, environmental and societal sustainability advocate who empathetically supports research, education and design in sustaining practices and management. A practical over technical concept to continuum Permaculture development and remediation advocate of 30 years’ experience, he combines opportunity with multiple solutions, developing all natural environmental and societal synergy, stabilisation and enhancement solutions through technically astute practical processes successfully implemented across the globe. He is the founder of Tilligerry Permaculture Research and Education Farms, as demonstrations of the shared success model. As a Polyculture Permaculture and Societal practitioner Rick Barker brings together approaches and experience from Australia and around the world that when applied, have solutions for everyday living. 

A colleague of Bill Mollison, the founder of Permaculture, Rick continues to design and share learnings wherever invited locally and internationally through positive creative activity. Spontaneous Appreciations and Learnings in Nature based on a philosophy and ethics of earth and people care evolving a model of shared success are societal imperatives. A blending of traditional cultural awareness with contemporary advancements in sustainable living, utilising conscious functional design are growth attributes. The challenges our current global generations face are complex, though the solutions are quite simple. Tilligerry Permaculture Research & Education is example focused, showing simple solutions to inspire, empower and improve.