Path to Permaculture
Path to Permaculture
for Home, Community, and Planet
About the Book
This is permaculture text which covers the fundamental elements of design.
Table of Contents
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Chapter One
- Introduction
- What is permaculture?
- Where permaculture started
- The evidence is in
- What is permaculture?
- Three Core Ethics and a Number of Principles
- Permaculture aphorisms and principles (Mollison)
- Permaculture principles (Holmgren)
- What is permaculture? Systems Thinking
- Weaving in another thread: Caretaking
- Permaculture Practice: Observation
- Patterns in Nature and Culture
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Chapter 2
- Earth Systems
- Climate
- Biogeography
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Chapter 3
- Water
- Trees and Forests in Permaculture Design
- Role of Trees in the Ecosystem
- Threats to forests
- Biomass
- Wind
- Temperature
- Precipitation
- What to do with trees…
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Soil
- What is dirt?
- Soils of the World
- Building Healthy Soil
- Healthy Soil, Healthy Plants, Healthy People
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Home System
- Home Economics Makes a Comeback
- How to approach the Home System: Overlays
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Microclimates
- In the Home
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Chapter 8: Food and Nutrition; Garden Design
- Nutrition
- Design for Nutrition
- Garden design for the seasons
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Design Methods
- Drawing on natural patterns
- Drawing on cybernetics and systems thinking
- Notes
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