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"Though the problems of the world are increasingly complex,
the solutions remain
embarrassingly simple."
Bill Mollison (Permaculture co-founder)
Permaculture
Creating sustainable human habitats by
following Nature's patterns
From
Wikipedia: The word
permaculture, coined by Australians
Bill Mollison and
David Holmgren
during the 1970s, is a portmanteau of permanent agriculture as well as
permanent culture. Through a series of publications, Mollison, Holmgren and
their associates documented an approach to designing human settlements, in
particular the development of perennial agricultural systems that mimic the
structure and interrelationship found in natural ecologies.
Permaculture design principles extend from the
position that "The only ethical decision is to take responsibility for our
own existence and that of our children" (Mollison, 1990). The intent was
that, by rapidly training individuals in a core set of design principles,
those individuals could become designers of their own environments and able
to build increasingly self-sufficient human settlements — ones that reduce
society's reliance on industrial systems of production and distribution that
Mollison identified as fundamentally and systematically destroying the
earth's ecosystems.
While originating as an agro-ecological design theory, permaculture has
developed a large international following of individuals who have received
training through intensive two week long 'permaculture design courses'. This
'permaculture community' continues to expand on the original teachings of
Mollison and his associates, integrating a range of alternative cultural
ideas, through a network of training, publications, permaculture gardens,
and internet forums. In this way permaculture has become both a design
system as well as a loosely defined philosophy or lifestyle ethic ...
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