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  • From: "Eugene Monaco" <efmonaco@comcast.net>
  • To: <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [permaculture] Definition of Permaculture
  • Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 09:31:48 -0500

Agriculture is said to be from the from Latin agricultura, from ager field +
cultura cultivation.
So permaculture can be said to mean perma permanence + cultura cultivation =
the cultivation of permanence or the cultivation of sustainability. It's
organized around human needs; however, a deeper look reveals that humans are
related to and part of all things animal, vegetable, mineral, fungi, spirit,
et al. Everybody lives or everybody dies.

Gene Monaco
Knoxville, TN




  • [permaculture] Definition of Permaculture, Eugene Monaco, 01/15/2008

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