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Permaculture

Principles & Pathways Beyond Sustainability

by David Holmgren · first published 2002

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Essential reading for permaculture designers and accessible to a wide range of critical thinkers. This revised edition is more accessible than the original, with redrawn graphics, corrected and amended text, new references and a newly designed layout that invites the reader into the world of whole systems thinking that is permaculture. When it was originally published in 2002, Permaculture: Principles and Pathways Beyond Sustainability explained the systems of permaculture in 12 design principles that together with three central ethics provided a foundation for a diversity of ecological s

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  • briantakita · Nov 24, 2015 · Recommends

    Thank you for your list. The books on there look good. Here's some books that I read & recommend re: applied systems thinking & ecosystems. http://www.amazon.com/Permaculture-Principles-Pathways-beyon... http://www.amazon.com/Edible-Forest-Gardens-2-set/dp/1890132... http://www.amazon.com/One-Straw-Revolution-Introduction-Natu... http://www.amazon.com/1491-Revelations-Americas-Before-Colum...…

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  • Jedd · Feb 28, 2017 · Mentions

    David Holmgren - one of the co-developers of Permaculture - produced a book a while back called Trees on The Treeless Plains[1]. The developing of arid lands into something productive (without requiring massive or on-going inputs of energy, nutrients, water,…

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