permaculture

[Wesley Roe and Marjorie Lakin Erickson <lakinroe@silcom.com>]

This week on Sustainable World Radio:  Pre-Recorded

August 2005 Santa Barbara Permaculture Network Event at Santa Barbara City 
College,
Lecture with David Holmgren (pre-recorded)

Peak Oil and Permaculture: David Holmgren on Energy Descent 
and  Permaculture in the 21st Century,

In the 21st Century many challenges face us. We live in a world of 
unprecedented wealth from harvesting enormous storages of fossil fuels 
created by the earth over
billions of years.  In a world where this source of energy begins to 
decline, what innovative ways will we use to design a sustainable future?


Holmgren is a permaculture designer and consultant, whose most recent work 
has focused on global permaculture strategies addressing the issue of 
"energy descent", a concept that acknowledges a future of reduced fossil 
fuels, but plans within a framework of gradual transition and adaptive 
strategies.  In drawing links to permaculture, in future design for homes, 
cities, and agriculture, lessons learned will need to be applied 
everywhere, rather than just First World versus Third World type situations.

Permaculture is a design system based on ecological principles for creating 
sustainable human environments, and is one of the most holistic, integrated 
systems analysis and design methodologies found in the world.  Originally 
coined from the words PERMAnent agriCULTURE, it has evolved to one of 
permanent or sustainable culture with consciously designed landscapes that 
mimic the patterns of nature.

David Holmgren (www.holmgren.com.au) is a designer and consultant, and 
co-originator of the permaculture concept with Australian biologist Bill 
Mollison, and co-author of "Permaculture One"(1978), a milestone in the 
application of environmental design to productive land use. Since 1978 he 
has authored numerous articles and several books, conducted workshops and 
courses, and consulted for urban and rural projects in
Australia and New Zealand.  His most recent book, "Permaculture:Principles
and Pathways Beyond Sustainability", provides a broad conceptual framework
for permaculture design education.


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