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| '''Permaculture Definitions''' | | Welcome to the Wikiversity '''Department of Permaculture'''. |
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| | The Department of Permaculture is a content development project where participants create, organize, and develop learning resources about permaculture. |
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| -[[w:Permaculture|Permaculture]] is a design system for creating sustainable human environments.
| | [[w:Permaculture|Permaculture]] is a design system for creating sustainable human environments. |
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| Defined From Bill Mollison:
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| -Permaculture: the use of ecology as the basis for designing integrated systems of food production, housing, appropriate technology, and community development. Permaculture is built upon an ethic of caring for the earth and interacting with the environment in mutually beneficial ways. | | ==Department news== |
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| From the Permaculture Drylands Institute, published in The Permaculture Activist (Autumn 1989):
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| | See: [[Wikiversity:Naming conventions#Learning Projects|Learning Projects]] and the [[Wikiversity:Learning]] model. |
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| -Permaculture (PERMAnent agriCULTURE or PERMAnent CULTURE) is a sustainable design system stressing the harmonious interrelationship of humans, plants, animals and the Earth.
| | Learning materials and [[Portal:Learning Projects|learning projects]] are located in the main Wikiversity namespace. Simply make a [[link]] to the name of the learning project (learning projects are independent pages in the [[Wikiversity:Namespaces|main namespace]]) and start writing! We suggest the use of the [[Template:Learning project boilerplate|learning project template]] (use "subst:Learning project boilerplate" on the new page, inside the double curved brackets <nowiki>{{}}</nowiki>). |
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| From Lee Barnes (former editor of Katuah Journal and Permaculture Connections), Waynesville, North Carolina:
| | Learning materials and learning projects can be used by multiple departments. Cooperate with other departments that use the same learning resource. |
| | *[[Introduction to Permaculture]] |
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| | Remember, Wikiversity has adopted the "learning by doing" model for education. Lessons should center on learning activities for Wikiversity participants. We learn by doing. |
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| To paraphrase the founder of permaculture, designer Bill Mollison:
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| -Permaculture principles focus on thoughtful designs for small-scale intensive systems which are labor efficient and which use biological resources instead of fossil fuels. Designs stress ecological connections and closed energy and material loops. The core of permaculture is design and the working relationships and connections between all things. Each component in a system performs multiple functions, and each function is supported by many elements. Key to efficient design is observation and replication of natural ecosystems, where designers maximize diversity with polycultures, stress efficient energy planning for houses and settlement, using and accelerating natural plant succession, and increasing the highly productive "edge-zones" within the system.
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| -Permaculture is: the design of land use systems that are sustainable and environmentally sound; the design of culturally appropriate systems which lead to social stability; a design system characterized by an integrated application of ecological principles in land use; an international movement for land use planning and design; an ethical system stressing positivism and cooperation. In the broadest sense, permaculture refers to land use systems which promote stability in society, utilize resources in a sustainable way and preserve wildlife habitat and the genetic diversity of wild and domestic plants and animals. It is a synthesis of ecology and geography, of observation and design. Permaculture involves ethics of earth care because the sustainable use of land cannot be separated from life-styles and philosophical issues.
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| From Michael Pilarski, founder of Friends of the Trees, published in International Green Front Report (1988):
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| -Permaculture is a practical concept which can be applied in the city, on the farm, and in the wilderness. Its principles empower people to establish highly productive environments providing for food, energy, shelter, and other material and non-material needs, including economic. Carefully observing natural patterns characteristic of a particular site, the permaculture designer gradually discerns optimal methods for integrating water catchment, human shelter, and energy systems with tree crops, edible and useful perennial plants, domestic and wild animals and aquaculture.
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| From a Bay Area Permaculture Group brochure, published in West Coast Permaculture News & Gossip and Sustainable Living Newsletter (Fall 1995):
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| -Permaculture adopts techniques and principles from ecology, appropriate technology, sustainable agriculture, and the wisdom of indigenous peoples. The ethical basis of permaculture rests upon care of the earth-maintaining a system in which all life can thrive. This includes human access to resources and provisions, but not the accumulation of wealth, power, or land beyond their needs<>ATTRA - National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service http://attra.ncat.org/attra-pub/perma.html
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| Ethics
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| Care of the Earth
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| Care of the People
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| Return and sharing of Surplus
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| Principles
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| Work with nature, rather than against the natural elements, forces, pressures, processes, agencies, and evolutions, so that we assist rather than impede natural developments.
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| The problem is the solution; everything works both ways. It is only how we see things that makes them advantageous or not (if the wind blows cold, let us use its strength and its coolness to advantage). A corollary of this principle is that everything is a positive resource; it is just up to us to work out how we may use it as such.
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| Make the least change for the greatest possible effect.
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| The yield of a system is theoretically unlimited. The only limit on the number of uses of of a resources possible within a system is in the limit of the information and the imagination of the designer.
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| Everything gardens, or has an effect on its environment.
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| http://www.permaculture.biz/mollison.htm
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| Common Techniques and Strategies
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| By Julianne Skai Arbor
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| -Site Analysis and Inventory
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| -Mapping
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| -Designing with zones and sectors
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| -Sheet Mulching
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| -Swales
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| -Chickens Tractors
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| -Edible Food Forest
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| -Plant Guilds
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| -Native Plants
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| -Small Scale Intensive
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| -Herb Spirals
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| -Greywater systems
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| Benefits of well-developed permaculture projects include:
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| -Conserving and building healthy soils, the basis of food systems.
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| -Diversifying and greatly increasing local food production (typically from a few sources to dozens, even hundreds), which increases the nutritional quality and pleasure of local diets and buffers against market fluctuations in food prices.
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| -Eliminating use of toxic chemicals that cause a variety of health problems from immediate toxic poisonings to longer-term chronic problems like cancer, birth defects and the destruction of healthy natural food source (i.e. toxic fish).
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| -Maximizing efficient beneficial use of local water sources, the critical lifeblood for people.
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| -Practically eliminating pollution of water by human wastes, thereby dramatically reducing water born diseases.
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| -Creating clean drinking water sources, further reducing disease.
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| -Increasing tree crops, which retain soils, slow water runoff, increase groundwater storage, and provide cooling shade.
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| -Increasing the beauty of the community though the creation of diverse life forms - flowers, insects, birds, frogs, and hundreds of others that create a pleasant and inspiring atmosphere for people, especially children.
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| -Harnessing natural renewable energies to create comfortable home living conditions.
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| http://www.essentiallivingfoods.com/permaculture.html
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| Combines Disciplines Examples
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| *Agriculture and Horticulture
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| Landcare
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| -Soil conservation
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| -Reafforestation
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| -Agroforestry
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| -Analog forestry
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| -Organic farming
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| -Biological pest control
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| -Kitchen gardens in cities and villages
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| Integrated farming systems:
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| -Aquaculture
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| -Aquaponics
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| -Intercropping
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| -Companion planting and polyculture
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| -Perennial and tree cropping systems.
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| -Trellising
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| -Worm composting
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| Gardening techniques:
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| -Utilizing crop rotations
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| -Cover crops
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| -Green manures
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| -Composts
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| -Mulches
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| -Medicinal plants
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| -Useful plants/edible landscaping
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| -Heritage plant varieties
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| -Seed saving
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| Bioregional planning
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| -citizen action
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| -cooperative organization
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| -micro-enterprise
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| -community credit schemes
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| -barter and LETS systems
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| *Appropriate Technology
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| Water collection
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| -Greywater reuse
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| -Rain & runoff catchment
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| -Swaling
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| -Constructed wetlands
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| -Fungal systems for wastewater treatment.
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| Energy
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| -Passive solar heating
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| -Solar and wind power
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| -Solar water pasteurizers
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Welcome to the Wikiversity Department of Permaculture.
Department description
The Department of Permaculture is a content development project where participants create, organize, and develop learning resources about permaculture.
Permaculture is a design system for creating sustainable human environments.
The "topic" namespace contains pages that are for management and organization of small academic units at Wikiversity such as departments (see: Wikiversity:Topics).
Department news
- Date founded - Department founded!
See: Learning Projects and the Wikiversity:Learning model.
Learning materials and learning projects are located in the main Wikiversity namespace. Simply make a link to the name of the learning project (learning projects are independent pages in the main namespace) and start writing! We suggest the use of the learning project template (use "subst:Learning project boilerplate" on the new page, inside the double curved brackets {{}}).
Learning materials and learning projects can be used by multiple departments. Cooperate with other departments that use the same learning resource.
Remember, Wikiversity has adopted the "learning by doing" model for education. Lessons should center on learning activities for Wikiversity participants. We learn by doing.
Select a descriptive name for each learning project.
