Permaculture

A genre that focuses on sustainable gardening using permaculture principles.

Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture
Permaculture: A Designers' Manual
The One-Straw Revolution
Introduction to Permaculture
Permaculture: Principles and Pathways beyond Sustainability
Sepp Holzer's Permaculture: A Practical Guide to Small-Scale, Integrative Farming and Gardening
Edible Forest Gardens, Vol. 1: Ecological Vision and Theory for Temperate Climate Permaculture
The Resilient Farm and Homestead: An Innovative Permaculture and Whole Systems Design Approach
Restoration Agriculture
Edible Forest Gardens, Volume 2: Ecological Design and Practice for Temperate Climate Permaculture
Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World
Permaculture Design: A Step by Step Guide
Creating a Forest Garden: Working with Nature to Grow Edible Crops
Earth User's Guide to Permaculture 2nd Edition
Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Volume 1: Guiding Principles to Welcome Rain Into Your Life and Landscape
Tiny Victory Gardens by Acadia TuckerGrowing Perennial Foods by Acadia TuckerGrowing Good Food by Acadia TuckerMcGee & Stuckey's Bountiful Container by Rose Marie Nichols McGeeThe Complete Herbal The Herb Reference 600 Herbs, 724 Pages, ... by Nicholas Culpeper
Green Gardeners, Welcome
11 books — 11 voters
Silent Spring by Rachel CarsonA Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There by Aldo LeopoldThe Lorax by Dr. SeussThe Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael PollanDesert Solitaire by Edward Abbey
Best Environmental Books
1,082 books — 1,226 voters

The Great Good Place by Ray OldenburgTiny Victory Gardens by Acadia TuckerWhat Has Nature Ever Done for Us? by Tony JuniperDeepening Community by Paul BornThe Abundant Community by John McKnight
Best Books on Livable Communities
279 books — 26 voters
Comment tout peut s'effondrer  by Pablo ServigneUne autre fin du monde est possible by Pablo ServignePetit manuel de résistance contemporaine by Cyril DionDormez tranquilles jusqu’en 2100 by Jean-Marc JancoviciVers la sobriété heureuse by Pierre Rabhi
Effondrement et Résilience
37 books — 4 voters

Stability, the deep, cushiony ability to take blows, and yet to keep things as they were, came from the special place of these people on the land. The peasants were agriculturalists; their livelihood sprang from the earth. Americans they met later would have called them "farmers", but that word had a different meaning in Europe. The bonds that held these men to their acres were not simply the personal ones of the husbandman who temporarily mixes his sweat with the soil. The ties were deeper, mor ...more
Oscar Handlin , Children of the Uprooted

Food waste cannot exist in a Permacapital Economy - all food produced is consumed wither by some biological organism like a person or a pet, or by another like a microbe or a fungus. For each organism or economic-participant, the bi-product produced after consumption is food to be consumed by another organism or economic participant. In such a system, waste does not exist; only resources. And in such a system, consumption is not evil; it is virtuous.
Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, An Assessment of Historical Economic Frameworks & A Prescription of Permacapital Economics: A Doctoral Paper: Edition 1

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