The Permaculture Concept!

[Narz]

If you don't know what permaculture is and want an introduction I've seen no better than "The Permaculture Concept". Now available on YouTube. Part four even includes a permaculture rap.

Bill Mollison is a genius and has a clear, concise manner of explaining (with the help of his visual aids) the perfect common sense behind living and growing food in harmony with natural systems, aka : permaculture.

Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5
Part 6

Each segment is 10 minutes long. Well worth the hour spent to watch.

Another cool video is Greening the Desert about a fellow who successfully "reforested" a segment of one of the driest areas on the planet. (about 5 minutes long)

Watch, enjoy and discuss.

[LordShiva]

I feel I've seen you here before. Or was that a Zarn?

[Spiffor]

Zarn is a Republican. Narz is a hippie

[Asmodean]

LOL - I read the thread title as the premature concept. And when I saw that there were links to videoes in the post, I was like....WTF...he has posted videoes on ejaculation??

Asmodean

[Ecthy]

Cna somebody summarise those clips in one concise sentence?

[Kuciwalker]

Permaculture is both a philosophy or lifestyle ethic as well as a design system which utilizes a systems thinking approach to create sustainable human habitats by analyzing and duplicating nature's patterns (ecology).

The word "permaculture," coined by Australians Bill Mollison and David Holmgren during the 1970s, is a Portmanteau-style contraction of permanent agriculture as well as permanent culture.

Renowned environmentalist Dr. David Suzuki has stated: "What permaculturists are doing is the most important activity that any group is doing on the planet."[1]

Today, permaculture can be described as a "moral and ethical design system applicable to food production and land use," as well as community design. It seeks the creation of productive and sustainable ways of living by integrating ecology, landscape, organic gardening, architecture, agroforestry, green or ecological economics, and social systems. The focus is not on these elements themselves, but rather on the relationships created among them by the way they are placed together; the whole becoming greater than the sum of its parts. Permaculture is also about careful and contemplative observation of nature and natural systems, and of recognizing universal patterns and principles, then learning to apply these ‘ecological truisms’ to one’s own circumstances in all realms of human activity.

Sounds silly.

[Ecthy]

Does it involve dancing on fields naked?

[FrostyBoy]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker

Permaculture is both a philosophy or lifestyle ethic as well as a design system which utilizes a systems thinking approach to create sustainable human habitats by analyzing and duplicating nature's patterns (ecology).

The word "permaculture," coined by Australians Bill Mollison and David Holmgren during the 1970s, is a Portmanteau-style contraction of permanent agriculture as well as permanent culture.

Renowned environmentalist Dr. David Suzuki has stated: "What permaculturists are doing is the most important activity that any group is doing on the planet."[1]

Today, permaculture can be described as a "moral and ethical design system applicable to food production and land use," as well as community design. It seeks the creation of productive and sustainable ways of living by integrating ecology, landscape, organic gardening, architecture, agroforestry, green or ecological economics, and social systems. The focus is not on these elements themselves, but rather on the relationships created among them by the way they are placed together; the whole becoming greater than the sum of its parts. Permaculture is also about careful and contemplative observation of nature and natural systems, and of recognizing universal patterns and principles, then learning to apply these ‘ecological truisms’ to one’s own circumstances in all realms of human activity.

Sounds silly.

I expect a 2000 word essay on why you think it is silly in this thread tomorrow morning (that's my tomorrow, thats about 15 hours from now), Mr VagueMan.

[Eli]

Permaculture is also about careful and contemplative observation of nature and natural systems, and of recognizing universal patterns and principles, then learning to apply these ‘ecological truisms’ to one’s own circumstances in all realms of human activity.

Hippies...

[Ecthy]

It's not like people in Israel would ever have considered anything but security issues.

[Spiffor]

Permaculture sounds nice for small like-minded communities. However, I can't see it becoming the norm in our world. Our world rests on a dramatic division of labour, which you can't hope to achieve if everybody becomes a peasant.

Besides, if everybody in this world had his private house and plant garden, the suburban sprawl would be absolutely frightening.

[LordShiva]

Hippies

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by Sn00py
I expect a 2000 word essay on why you think it is silly in this thread tomorrow morning (that's my tomorrow, thats about 15 hours from now), Mr VagueMan.

it's stock clueless-environmentalist fluff. There was absolutely nothing of substance in the part I quoted.

[ZEE]

poor Narz

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by Eli

Permaculture is also about careful and contemplative observation of nature and natural systems, and of recognizing universal patterns and principles, then learning to apply these ‘ecological truisms’ to one’s own circumstances in all realms of human activity.

Hippies...

Its not like people in Israel ever considered the relationships among different forms of agricultural technology and organization, social structure, culture and politics.

Gordon is even deader than I thought, I take it.