Permaculture Principles and Pathways - David Holmgren new softcover book Sustainability

PERMACULTURE

Principles and Pathways Beyond Sustainability

by DAVID HOLMGREN

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New softcover book, 286 pages, published 2006.

This book uses permaculture principles as a framework for an empowering but challenging vision of creative adaptation to a world of energy descent. David Holmgren builds on the extraordinary success of the permaculture concept (which he co-originated with Bill Mollison 25 years ago) and the global permaculture movement, to provide a more cerebral and controversial contribution to the sustainability debate.

Permaculture: Principles and Pathways Beyond Sustainability brings into sharper focus the powerful and still evolving Permaculture concept David pioneered with Bill Mollison in the 1970's. It draws together and integrates 25 years of thinking and teaching to show a whole new way of understanding and action behind a simple set of design principles. This book is relevant to every aspect of how we reorganise our lives, communities and landscapes to creatively adapt to ecological realities which shape human destiny.

About the author

David Holmgren is an ecological pioneer destined to have a major influence on the sustainability debate. He is best known as the co-originator with Bill Mollison of the Permaculture concept put forth in Permaculture One in 1978. Since then he has written several more books, developed three properties using permaculture principles, and conducted workshops and courses in Australia, New Zealand, Israel, Italy, France, Britain, Germany, Denmark and Sweden. He has also consulted on and supervised urban and rural projects in Australia and New Zealand.

His other books include

• Permaculture One: A Perennial Agriculture for Human Settlements, with Bill Mollison (1978)
• Permaculture in the bush : the design and development of a homestead on the far south coast of N.S.W. (1992)
• The Flywire House : a case study in design against bushfire (1993)
• Trees on the treeless plains : revegetation manual for the volcanic landscapes of central Victoria (1994)
• Hepburn Permaculture Gardens : 10 years of sustainable living 1985 - 1995 : a case study in cool climate permaculture (1995)
• Permaculture: Principles and Pathways Beyond Sustainability (2002)
• Future Scenarios - due for publication later this year
  

Permaculture Principles and Pathways Beyond Sustainability by David Holmgren