Permaculture is the practice of designing all facets of our lives to enhance environmental sustainability. Only with a sustainable environment can we have a "permanent culture": Permaculture designs assume an ethic of caring for the earth. Designs involve food production, energy, water, housing, community, transportation, & other systems in harmony with all of the natural world.
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External links:
- Peak Oil and Permaculture An interview with David Holmgren who started the permaculture movement with Bill Mollison in the 1970's.
- Permaculture Net
A great resource for information about permaculture principles, courses and internships, and an online forum.
- Introduction to Permaculture
- The Permaculture Activist
- In Context: A Quarterly of Humane Sustainable Culture
- Permaculture - Wikipedia information
- A Permaculture Primer
- Ecological Systems Design:
"Systems designers consider the context. Each subsystem is designed so it works synergistically with the others to form an optimized whole. In Ecological Systems Design, the "whole" is ultimately the whole planet."
Threads: Sustainability