Permaculture †A Sustainable Future Essays -- Environment Environmenta

The term perma shade was coined in 1978 by Bill Mollison, an Australian ecologist, with one of his students, David Holmgren. It is a contraction of unceasing agriculture and overly permanent culture. Permaculture is a relatively broad term subject to interpretation, but slackly it is a design system for creating sustainable human environments. The aim is to farm systems that are ecologically sound and economically feasible, which do non ill-use or pollute and are therefore sustainable in the coarse term. It is based on the careful observation of natural ecosystems, the value of traditional farming practices, and modern scientific and technological knowledge (Mollison, 1991). The basic philosophical system of permaculture is a philosophy of working with, alternatively than against nature, of thoughtful observation rather than thoughtless labor, and of understanding the multiple functions of plants and animals, instead of treating them as single-product system s. Permaculture presents an alternative to nerve-racking to make the environment yield to our brute 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 possible if humans can sky the notion that we are superior to the natural world. He states, We are not superior to other life-forms all living things are an expression of Life. If we could recover 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 living 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/i mages/tour.html.Harland, Maddy. Permaculture Design Bites. May, 2002. http//www.permaculture.co.uk/info/what.htmlHolmgren, David. http//www.thefarm.org/permaculture/Leisure beach Permaculture Visions. Whats the Difference Between Organic Gardening and Permaculture, July, 2001.Mollison, Bill. Introduction to Permaculture. Tagari Publications, Tagari Australia 1991.Wasser, Katherine. about Permaculture A Brief Introduction. Tucson Food Co-op News, August 1994.http//members.ozemail.com.au/askpv/organic-perma.htm.http//www.permaculture-hawaii.com/intern.htmlhttp//www.permaearth.org/