The concept of permaculture emerged during the 1970s energy crisis. This solutions-oriented design system began as a holistic response to a deepening awareness of limits to growth and their accompanying challenges to global survival. These challenges of course are becoming ever more acute today.

Permaculture stresses patterns of cooperation rather than competition, mimicking the relationships found in natural ecologies. It can be applied to pretty much any field of human endeavour from gardening, agriculture, shelter and the built environment, ‘green’ economics, transport and waste treatment ...

 

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