Permaculture: A Quiet Revolution

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Permaculture: A Quiet Revolution

An Interview with Bill Mollison

Source >

http://www.scottlondon.com/insight/scripts/mollison.html

 

Bill Mollison calls himself a field biologist and

itinerant teacher. But it would be more accurate to

describe him as an instigator. When he published

Permaculture One in 1978, he launched an international

land-use movement many regard as subversive, even

revolutionary.

 

Permaculture – from permanent and agriculture – is an

integrated design philosophy that encompasses

gardening, architecture, horticulture, ecology, even

money management and community design. The basic

approach is to create sustainable systems that provide

for their own needs and recycle their waste.

 

Mollison developed permaculture after spending decades

in the rainforests and deserts of Australia studying

ecosystems. He observed that plants naturally group

themselves in mutually beneficial communities. He used

this idea to develop a different approach to

agriculture and community design, one that seeks to

place the right elements together so they sustain and

support each other.

 

Today his ideas have spread and taken root in almost

every country on the globe. Permaculture is now being

practiced in the rainforests of South America, in the

Kalahari desert, in the arctic north of Scandinavia,

and in communities all over North America. In New

Mexico, for example, farmers have used permaculture to

transform hard-packed dirt lots into lush gardens and

tree orchards without using any heavy machinery. In

Davis, California, one community uses bath and laundry

water to flush toilets and irrigate gardens. In

Toronto, a team of architects has created a design for

an urban infill house that doesn't tap into city water

or sewage infrastructure and that costs only a few

hundred dollars a year to operate. Cont: Below >

 

Read the entire interview at the site below. Note: you

can also learn how to personally use permaculture by

clicking on the second site down. >

http://www.scottlondon.com/insight/scripts/mollison.html

 

http://www.tagari.com/PermInst/BillMollison/BillMollison.htm

 

 

 

 

 

 

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