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  • From: Lawrence London <lfljvenaura@gmail.com>
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  • Subject: [permaculture] What is Permaculture ? | Deep Green Permaculture
  • Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2016 23:18:50 -0500

What is Permaculture ? | Deep Green Permaculture
https://deepgreenpermaculture.com/permaculture/

*Permaculture is a holistic design system that emulates systems that exist
in Nature to create sustainable human settlements and food production
systems which integrate harmoniously with the natural environment.*

It was co-founded by Australian ecologists Bill Mollison and David
Holmgren, in the 1970s.

The word "Permaculture" is a contraction of "*perma*nent agri*culture*" or "
*perma*nent *culture*."

Permaculture is a movement concerned with sustainable, environmentally
sound land use and the building of stable communities, through the
harmonious interrelationship of humans, plants, animals and the Earth.

The focus of Permaculture design is on the *relationship* between all the
individual elements and their placement in the landscape, to form stable,
productive communities that replicate the synergy and efficiency of natural
ecosystems, rather than the individual elements themselves.

Permaculture design is applicable to both urban and rural environments, and
encompasses all ranges of scale, from an apartment balcony to a large scale
farm or village.

Being a design framework, Permaculture is concerned with much more than
just the design of ecologically harmonious landscapes that produce food. As
a system of design, it can encompass many different disciplines, which
provide the *techniques and methods* to achieve the design goals.

…Permaculture can incorporate the techniques of organic gardening,
biodynamic gardening, no-dig gardening, composting and a myriad of other
sustainable gardening practices.

Therefore, Permaculture can incorporate the techniques of organic
gardening, biodynamic gardening, no-dig gardening, composting and a myriad
of other sustainable gardening practices. It can also use techniques of
energy-efficient building design, water harvesting, waste water treatment
and recycling for example.

Permaculture is a growing and evolving design system and has expanded to
include economic and social systems that support stable communities, such
as credit co-ops, Local Exchange Trading Systems (LETS) and eco-villages.

Two terms which come close to defining Permaculture, as suggested by ATTRA
(The US National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service) are "*ecological
engineering*" or “*cultivated ecology*".



  • [permaculture] What is Permaculture ? | Deep Green Permaculture, Lawrence London, 12/31/2016

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