Definition of Permaculture Design
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DEFINITION OF PERMACULTURE DESIGN: Permaculture is the conscious design and co-creative evolution of agriculturally productive ecosystems and cooperative and economically just social systems which have the diversity, stability and resilience of "natural" systems. 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. The practice of permaculture design is greatly enhanced by the practice and development of liberating mental, emotional and spiritual ways of being. It seeks to provide a sustainable and secure place for living things on this earth.
David Jacke
(summary and expansion of Bill Mollison's definition from Permaculture: A Designer's Manual, 1988)
- For an introduction to Holmgren's Permaculture Principles see: http://www.permacultureprinciples.com/index.php
- For a basic overview of the origins of the 20th century concept of Permaculture developed by Bill Mollison and David Holmgren: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permaculture
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