Permaculture †A Sustainable Future Essays -- Environment Environmenta

The endpoint permaculture was coined in 1978 by Bill Mollison, an Australian ecologist, with one of his students, David Holmgren. It is a contraction of abiding agriculture and overly permanent culture. Permaculture is a relatively broad term subject to interpretation, but generally it is a design system for creating sustainable human environments. The aim is to create systems that are ecologically sound and economically feasible, which do not damage or pollute and are therefore sustainable in the long term. It is based on the careful reflectivity of instinctive ecosystems, the value of traditional farming practices, and modern scientific and proficient knowledge (Mollison, 1991). The basic philosophy of permaculture is a philosophy of working with, quite an than against spirit, of thoughtful observation rather than thoughtless labor, and of understanding the multiple functions of plants and animals, instead of treating them as single-product systems. Perm aculture presents an alternative to trying to make the environment yield to our beast strength and blows. Bill Mollison, in his book Introduction to Permaculture, asserts that if we attack nature we attack (and ultimately destroy) ourselves(Mollison, 1991). Mollison, 1991, also states that harmony with nature is only achievable if humans can discard the notion that we are superior to the natural world. He states, We are not superior to other life-forms all vivacious things are an expression of Life. If we could see that truth, we would see that everything we do to other life-forms we also do to ourselves. A culture which understands this does not, without absolute necessity, destroy any accompaniment thing. Permaculture in its design recognizes th... ...ibliographyChristensen, Bill. Harvested Rainwater, Nov. 2002, http//www.greenbuilder.com/sourcebook/. Fry, Kirby, and Inger Meyer. A Photographic Tour of Cross Timbers, 1994, http//csf.colorado.edu/perma/ctpi/ima ges/tour.html.Harland, Maddy. Permaculture object Bites. May, 2002. http//www.permaculture.co.uk/info/what.htmlHolmgren, David. http//www.thefarm.org/permaculture/Leisure Coast Permaculture Visions. Whats the Difference Between natural Gardening and Permaculture, July, 2001.Mollison, Bill. Introduction to Permaculture. Tagari Publications, Tagari Australia 1991.Wasser, Katherine. About Permaculture A Brief Introduction. Tucson Food cage News, August 1994.http//members.ozemail.com.au/askpv/organic-perma.htm.http//www.permaculture-hawaii.com/intern.htmlhttp//www.permaearth.org/