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’PERMACULTURE’ is a word that was originally coined in the mid seventies by two Australians, David Holmgren and Bill Mollison, to describe the design system pioneered as a response to what they, and many others globally, saw as serious challenges to the survival of all of us. Originally derived from the words ‘PERMAnent agriCULTURE’, permaculture has gone beyond it’s roots in looking at strategies to create sustainable food growing methods to become a worldwide movement encompassing all aspects of how we as human beings can live harmoniously in relation to our Earth and it’s finite resources- A PERManent CULTURE. Permaculture now probably has as many definitions as there are practitioners, but one that is particularly useful might be- “CREATING SUSTAINABLE HUMAN HABITATS BY FOLLOWING NATURE’S PATTERNS”. Permaculture is a broad based and holistic approach that has many applications to all aspects of life. Want to know more? Invasion Biology. David I.
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Peak Oil and Permaculture: David Holmgren on Energy Descent. David Holmgren, co-originator of the permaculture concept and author of Permaculture: Principals and Pathways Beyond Sustainability, speaks with Adam Fenderson from www.energybulletin.net about permaculture and its role in an energy constrained world.
Link with video for broadband users: www.globalpublicmedia.com/INTERVIEWS/DAVID.HOLMGREN/ Link to MP3 version:www.radio4all.net Transcript: Adam Fenderson: Could you give us your definition of permaculture and tell us a little bit about your role in its creation and evolution? David Holmgren: Permaculture is a design system for sustainable living and land use.
"It started from the premise of looking at the redesign of agriculture using ecological principles, but it extended out from that to the redesign of the whole of society using those principles. Fenderson: What exactly is the "energy peak"? The critical peak that we're reaching now is in relation to what's called conventional oil. Permaculture Principles. The foundations of permaculture are the ethics (centre) which guide the use of the 12 design principles, ensuring that they are used in appropriate ways.
These principles are seen as universal, although the methods used to express them will vary greatly according to the place and situation. They are applicable to our personal, economic, social and political reorganisation as illustrated in the permaculture flower. Each principle can be thought of as a door that opens into whole systems thinking, providing a different perspective that can be understood at varying levels of depth and application. Permaculture Principles.