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Permaculture uses ecological principles and respect for the land to design more sustainable, local, food gardens, and more sustainable relationships to the web of life and to one another.
Introduction: Permaculture Solutions for Climate Change
By Starhawk. Republished with deep gratitude from Starhawk’s Blog
Permaculture is a system of ecological design, originated by two Australians, Bill Mollison and David Holmgren, in the ‘seventies. It’s now a worldwide movement of practitioners, researchers and teachers who look to nature as a model that can show us how to meet human needs while regenerating the environment around us. The genius of permaculture lies, not in any single technique, but in looking at how multiple techniques can be woven together into systems that are more than the sum of their parts. It offers both practical tools and an ethical framework for change. …
Permaculture offers a simple, secular framework of ethics that can guide us: ‘Care for the earth’, ‘Care for the people’, and ‘Care for the Future’, which implies the imperatives to return surpluses into the system, limit consumption and take no more than your fair share.
A Resource Book on Permaculture in Tropical Climates
A beautiful illustrated overview of of Permaculture from Indonesia and East Timor.
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The aim of this book is to offer knowledge and practical techniques for environmental rehabilitation and sustainability, strengthening community resilience and local economies. The contents of the book are based on concepts of deep ecology, the interconnectedness of our environment and culture, and the principles and ethics of sustainable community development.
Combining traditional techniques for providing natural resources, food, shelter, and energy with modern sustainable practices, the techniques outlined in this book provide integrated, practical solutions for challenges being faced by community members and farmers throughout Indonesia today.
This Resource Book for Permaculture has been developed using simple language and many detailed illustrations to ensure that the information contained is accessible to all those interested.
This book is made available by kind permissions of the IDEP Foundation.
By Lachlan McKenzie with Ego Lemos.
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Permaculture Reading List
Many thanks to Larry Santoyo, of Earth Flow Design Works, San Luis Obispo, California, for many items in the following permaculture reading list and for his personal book recommendations. Larry Santoyo offers intensive permaculture design courses in the Los Angeles area. (Click book images to order.)
Permaculture for Humanity: Larry Santoyo Interview
REGENERATIVE DESIGN INSTITUTE — BOLINAS, CA
PERMACULTURE READING LIST
PERMACULTURE & ECOLOGICAL DESIGN
Permaculture: A Designer’s Manual, Bill Mollison
Introduction to Permaculture, Bill Mollison
Gaia’s Garden: A Guide to Home-scale Permaculture, Toby Hemenway
Permaculture: Principles and Pathways Beyond Sustainability, David Holmgren
The Earth Care Manual, Patrick Whitefield
Edible Forest Gardens Vol. 1 & 2, David Jacke with Erik Toensmeier
Cradle to Cradle, William McDonough
Ferment and Human Nutrition, Bill Mollison
The Final Empire: The Collapse of Civilization and Seeds of the Future, William Kotke. Link to Book
From Eco-Cities to Living Machines, John and Nancy Jack Todd
Design With Nature, Ian L. McHarg
The Permaculture Garden, Graham Bell
Ecological Design, Stuart Cowan and Sim Van der Ryn
Earth Manual: How to Work the Land Without Taming It, Malcolm Margolin
The Earth User’s Guide to Permaculture, Rosemary Morrow
GARDENING, SOIL, BIODIVERSITY
Uncommon Fruits for Every Garden, Lee Reich
The One Straw Revolution, Masanoba Fukuoka
A Natural Way of Farming, Masanoba Fukuoka
The Road Back to Nature, Masanoba Fukuoka
Tree Crops: A Permanent Agriculture, J. Russell Smith Link to book
Seed to Seed, Suzanne Ashworth
Culture and Horticulture: A Philosophy of Gardening, Wolf. D. Storl
Buffalo Bird Woman’s Garden, as told to Gilbert Wilson
Landscape Ecology, Richard T. Forman and Michael Gordon
Tending the Wild, Cat Anderson
The Humanure Handbook, Joe Jenkins
RENEWABLE ENERGY
Solar Living Source Book, Edited by John Schaeffer
More Permaculture videos to be added…
