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This extremely inspiring, 5-minute video demonstrates how Permaculture gardening practices can be used to desalinate soils just a mile away from the Dead Sea in the Jordanian desert—restoring them to life and food productivity without the use of chemical fertilizers, heavy irrigation or tilling.
If we can heal the land and bring life back to a desert that has been dead for centuries —and do it without fossil fuels, chemicals, genetic engineering or other high-tech, resource-intensive methods—then we already have all the tools we need to feed the world and repair our environment today. How exciting!
Permaculture is an approach to designing human settlements and perennial agricultural systems that mimic the relationships found in natural ecologies. It was first developed by Australians Bill Mollison and David Holmgren and their associates during the 1970s in a series of publications.
Permaculture comes from “permanent culture” or “permanent agriculture.” The practical goal is the creation of sustainable biosystems that provide for their own needs and recycle their waste. Permaculture is a design philosophy encompassing diverse but inter-related fields, including gardening/horticulture, architecture, ecology, community design, and systems theory. Permaculture is about arranging the right elements together in a system so that they sustain and support each other for long-term productive living.
The intent was that, by rapidly training individuals in a core set of design principles, those individuals could design their own environments and build increasingly self-sufficient human settlements—ones that reduce society’s reliance on industrial systems of production and distribution that Mollison identified as fundamentally and systematically destroying Earth’s ecosystems.
This is not as hard as it sounds—nature is very powerful and within a few years, even living in an apartment, people can create remarkably productive local biosystems. But Permaculture does involve giving up a lot of modern ways of thinking and behaving. As Mollison puts it, Permaculture is about “not shitting in your bed”—but since this is mostly how modern life operates, it represents a radical departure in thinking. But once a permaculture system is established, the main danger, according to Mollison, is from falling food.
Permaculture has spawned widespread and enthusiastic interest around the world. For example, the Vietnamese government have adopted the principles into their agricultural policy and distributed translated copies of the Permaculture Designer’s Manual to their farmers.
According to renowned environmental activist David Suzuki, “What permaculturists are doing is the most important activity that any group is doing on the planet.” You can do Permaculture too, starting right out your front door. Learn how!
Watch the video and spread the word about Permaculture!
This extremely inspiring, 5-minute video demonstrates how Permaculture gardening practices can be used to desalinate soils just a mile away from the Dead Sea in the Jordanian desert—restoring them to life and food productivity without the use of chemical fertilizers, heavy irrigation or tilling.
If we can heal the land and bring life back to a desert that has been dead for centuries —and do it without fossil fuels, chemicals, genetic engineering or other high-tech, resource-intensive methods—then we already have all the tools we need to feed the world and repair our environment today. How exciting!
Permaculture is an approach to designing human settlements and perennial agricultural systems that mimic the relationships found in natural ecologies. It was first developed by Australians Bill Mollison and David Holmgren and their associates during the 1970s in a series of publications.
Permaculture comes from “permanent culture” or “permanent agriculture.” The practical goal is the creation of sustainable biosystems that provide for their own needs and recycle their waste. Permaculture is a design philosophy encompassing diverse but inter-related fields, including gardening/horticulture, architecture, ecology, community design, and systems theory. Permaculture is about arranging the right elements together in a system so that they sustain and support each other for long-term productive living.
The intent was that, by rapidly training individuals in a core set of design principles, those individuals could design their own environments and build increasingly self-sufficient human settlements—ones that reduce society’s reliance on industrial systems of production and distribution that Mollison identified as fundamentally and systematically destroying Earth’s ecosystems.
This is not as hard as it sounds—nature is very powerful and within a few years, even living in an apartment, people can create remarkably productive local biosystems. But Permaculture does involve giving up a lot of modern ways of thinking and behaving. As Mollison puts it, Permaculture is about “not shitting in your bed”—but since this is mostly how modern life operates, it represents a radical departure in thinking. But once a permaculture system is established, the main danger, according to Mollison, is from falling food.
Permaculture has spawned widespread and enthusiastic interest around the world. For example, the Vietnamese government have adopted the principles into their agricultural policy and distributed translated copies of the Permaculture Designer’s Manual
to their farmers.
According to renowned environmental activist David Suzuki, “What permaculturists are doing is the most important activity that any group is doing on the planet.” You can do Permaculture too, starting right out your front door. Learn how!
Watch the video and spread the word about Permaculture!
This post is part of Fight Back Fridays hosted by Food Renegade!