Submit a Story!
Votes
vote down flag
planetgreen.discovery.com - 3/22/2009
Green Glossary: Permaculture
—
Coined in 1978 by Australian ecologists Bill Mollison and David Holmgren, permaculture is a contraction of "permanent agriculture." It's also "an approach to developing ecological human habitats and food production systems that use land sustainable and build communities that harmonious integrate ...

Blog Reactions

TreeHugger:  Land Degradation Endangers Quarter of World Population

Comments
Blog Reactions

Land Degradation Endangers Quarter of World Population
TreeHugger — Land Management To What End? The management of land is a controversial issue tied deeply in our spiritual, social, economic, and ecological history, present, and future. We have seen that agricultural land is degrading faster than expected. We have begun to sense the damage of soil erosion . We have seen innovative solutions to combat land degradation, from introducing small farms , permaculture , and biochar and many more. Yet for the most part our land management practices can be said to be on the same scale as a natural catastrophe. ...

Exploring Permaculture in the Big City
TreeHugger — ... , had scoped out the small plot of land, observing its soil conditions and its slope, where it got sun and what was already growing there before developing a garden design. This preparatory work is an essential part of permaculture (short for " ...

Related Content
Midwest Permaculture Home Page
midwestpermaculture.com 4/26/2009 — Nowicki's Suburban Permaculture Home, Downers Grove, Illinois
Glossary ice
nsidc.org 7/7/2009 — See Entire Glossary | Close Window
Glossary ice
nsidc.org 7/7/2009 — See Entire Glossary | Close Window
David Holmgren on Permaculture, Business, Resilience and Transition
transitionculture.org 12/18/2008 — A while ago now I had a conversation with David Holmgren about how his 12 principles of permaculture might apply to business. It was just an initial exploration, but there was a great deal of useful stuff in it, and prompted by an article by Stefan ...
Book Review: Permaculture, a beginner’s guide
transitionculture.org 1/14/2009 — Permaculture: a beginner’s guide (second edition). Graham Burnett . Spiralseed Publications . I have had a copy of the initial edition of this small book for many years. Graham both wrote and illustrated the book, and it has a very ...
Awesome Tour of a Permaculture Allotment (Video)
treehugger.com 9/24/2009 — Image credit: EmbodyBruce From permaculture design principles , to close mimicry of natural ecosystems , Permaculture is usually taught as a fairly methodical design discipline. But I learned about it somewhat differently. I make no apologies ...
Introduction to Permaculture: Concepts and Resources
attra.ncat.org 8/21/2009 — Photo of hands cradling seedling. Photo: clipart.com
The White House Vegetable Garden: A Permaculture Perspective
treehugger.com 3/26/2009 — Image credit: Sunday Times The White House Garden - Permaculture Style Politics is an unforgiving arena - everyone's a critic. No sooner had the Obama's announced their plans for a vegetable garden at the White House , even featuring bee hives ...
Permaculture Future? Questions Perhaps Worth Asking Part I
sharonastyk.com 6/30/2009 — Recently, Dmitry Orlov offered a selection of possible topics for a talk he was giving, and several of them dealt with the ubiquity of permaculture as the articulated solution to our present crisis. Orlov’s point was that a consensus seems to ...
A Friendly Permaculture Critique of the Obamas’ Vegetable Garden
transitionculture.org 3/25/2009 — If I had written it as a Transition Tale in the Transition Handbook , it would have ranked as being even more ridiculous than the Beckhams’ cob retirement house. However, here we are, and Michelle Obama has started to dig up part of the White ...