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  • From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." <venaurafarm@bellsouth.net>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [permaculture] What is Permaculture? | Permaculture Research Institute of Australia
  • Date: Tue, 08 Dec 2009 18:10:10 -0500


What is Permaculture? | Permaculture Research Institute of Australia
http://permaculture.org.au/what-is-permaculture/
(A brief quote to set the tone of this message:)
"Permaculture (permanent agriculture) is the conscious design and maintenance of agriculturally productive ecosystems which have the diversity, stability, and resilience of natural ecosystems. It is the harmonious integration of landscape and people providing their food, energy, shelter, and other material and non-material needs in a sustainable way. Without permanent agriculture there is no possibility of a stable social order.

Permaculture design is a system of assembling conceptual, material, and strategic components in a pattern which functions to benefit life in all its forms.

The philosophy behind permaculture is one of working with, rather than against, nature; of protracted and thoughtful observation rather than protracted and thoughtless action; of looking at systems in all their functions, rather than asking only one yield of them; and allowing systems to demonstrate their own evolutions."

This shows great writing skill. This is the definition that I think most accurately describes the essence of permaculture and the reason why it is so important to practice it as a multidisciplinary approach to human habitation on this Earth. I like their emphasis on agriculture as implied in the term Perma(nent) A(gri)culture with the principles embodied in the Permaculture Third Ethic playing a vital role.




  • [permaculture] What is Permaculture? | Permaculture Research Institute of Australia, Lawrence F. London, Jr., 12/08/2009

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