Permaculture (The) – A brief introduction
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Permaculture of course shows how to manage an eco-garden, compost and create a mini food forest, but also how to gradually set up a local exchange system or create a business, by maximizing useful interactions.
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Permaculture of course shows how to manage an eco-garden, compost and create a mini food forest, but also how to gradually set up a local exchange system or create a business, by maximizing useful interactions.
Description
Permaculture, a term coined in Australia in the 1970s, consists of creating sustainable habitats for humans by following nature's models. It is ecological design applied, firstly, to agriculture, but also to housing, domestic life and local development.
In this lively and abundantly illustrated micro-manual, Graham Burnett sets out the principles of “design” present in natural systems that we must strive to imitate: abundance of borders and transition zones, multiple and successive functions, cycles, self-sufficiency. The idea is to work with nature and not against it, minimizing the effort required (optimal intervention level for the author: “do nothing”).
Permaculture of course shows how to manage an eco-garden, compost and create a mini food forest, but also how to gradually set up a local exchange system or create a business, by maximizing useful interactions.
This new classic of ecological design, whose style is reminiscent of the famous Whole Earth Catalog that was found in all municipalities in the 1970s, has had three editions since its first publication in England, 15 years ago. It appears for the first time in French.
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“A simple and engaging introduction, a very useful and important tool. »
— Rob Hopkins, founder of the Transition movement
Graham Burnett teaches permaculture in Essex (England). He has been an activist for social and environmental justice for over 20 years, active in community agriculture and the Transition movement. He contributes to numerous publications, including The Raven, The Vegan and The Sunday Times.
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Author: Graham Burnett
Publisher: Écosociété (Montreal, Qc)/resilience
Publication: 2012 (2013 for the French publication)
Pages: 144
ISBN : 978-2-89719-060-6
