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Toby Hemenway (April 23, 1952 – December 20, 2016) [1] was an American author and educator who wrote extensively on permaculture and ecological issues. He was the author of Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture and The Permaculture City: Regenerative Design for Urban, Suburban, and Town Resilience.
A garden cultivated on permaculture principles. Permaculture is an approach to land management and settlement design that adopts arrangements observed in flourishing natural ecosystems. It includes a set of design principles derived using whole-systems thinking.
The book, Permaculture: Principles and Pathways beyond Sustainability (2002a), is dedicated to Howard T. Odum, who died two months before its publication, and it owes much to Odum's vision of a world in energy transition. [9] Principles and Pathways offers twelve key
Paul Wheaton is an American permaculture author, [2] [3] [4] master gardener, [4] software engineer, [3] [4] [5] and disciple of the natural agriculturist Sepp Holzer. [4] He is known for writing his book, "Building a Better World in Your Backyard", founding Permies, the largest website devoted to permaculture, [3] as well as for creating and publishing articles, videos, and podcasts on the ...
Bruce Charles "Bill" Mollison (4 May 1928 – 24 September 2016) was an Australian researcher, author, scientist, teacher and biologist. In 1981, he was awarded the Right Livelihood Award "for developing and promoting the theory and practice of permaculture".
David Holmgren, one of the founders of permaculture, used Yeoman's Keyline design extensively in the formulation of his principles of permaculture and the design of sustainable human settlements and organic farms. [4] [5] Darren J. Doherty has extensive global experience in Keyline design, development, management, and education.
Herb Spiral in early summer. An herb spiral is a three dimensional garden bed for the cultivation of culinary herbs.The herb spiral is an example of permaculture design. It enables a variety of plants with different needs to grow in a small space and makes it possible to cater to the smallest space habitat requirements of plants of different climatic zones.
Blume's primary insight follows from that of Buckminster Fuller, who wrote the foreword to the book in 1983: that alcohol (or ethanol) is a renewable variety of solar energy in liquid form, the cultivation of which can enhance soils, be used as a minimally- or non-polluting fuel, and enable farmers and individuals at large to make fuel locally.