Permaculture

Permaculture is an approach to designing human environments and agricultural systems that mimic the processes and functions of resilient ecosystems. Permaculture  allows people to derive their needs whilst contributing to the well being of the planet. Permaculture has risen positivistic movement to solving many of the resource problems facing the planet. It is a holistic design philosophy rooted in ethics. The outcome being the  establishment of spaces that care about people, care for the Earth and have the capacity to produce surplus to be shared.

Permaculture is an amalgamation of many disciplines tied together by cohesive design principles. The term permaculture was coined by permacultures co-founders Bill Mollison and David Holmgren in the 1970′s as a portmantologism of permanent agriculture or permanent culture.  We all are dependent on nature for the provision of resources that make human cultures possible. Without the fundamentals of food, clean water and climatic balance, human culture will deteriorate and eventually cease.

Fortunately there are many simple and complex technological innovations, organic farming techniques and green building concepts that abound, but unfortunately these wonderful ideas often function in a isolated vacuum.  Permaculture applies lessons from ecology to interconnect these concepts and technologies to function as a whole. Thereby establishing a synergistic effect, whereby the byproducts of one component of a system become useful to other or multiple components within the designed ecology. This allows the permaculturist to stack multiple functions between elements and obtain various yields from a given space. This means that a given space should eventually be self sustaining and have a positive net yield that contributes to its surrounding ecosystems and communities.