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Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture (Paperback)
by (shelved 204 times as permaculture)
avg rating 4.42 — 4,985 ratings — published 2001
Permaculture: A Designers' Manual (Hardcover)
by (shelved 182 times as permaculture)
avg rating 4.49 — 1,735 ratings — published 1988
The One-Straw Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 124 times as permaculture)
avg rating 4.33 — 9,495 ratings — published 1975
Introduction to Permaculture (Paperback)
by (shelved 120 times as permaculture)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,267 ratings — published 1991
Permaculture: Principles and Pathways beyond Sustainability (Paperback)
by (shelved 110 times as permaculture)
avg rating 4.17 — 798 ratings — published 2002
Sepp Holzer's Permaculture: A Practical Guide to Small-Scale, Integrative Farming and Gardening (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as permaculture)
avg rating 4.37 — 1,181 ratings — published 2004
Edible Forest Gardens, Vol. 1: Ecological Vision and Theory for Temperate Climate Permaculture (Hardcover)
by (shelved 91 times as permaculture)
avg rating 4.48 — 673 ratings — published 2005
The Resilient Farm and Homestead: An Innovative Permaculture and Whole Systems Design Approach (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as permaculture)
avg rating 4.37 — 804 ratings — published 2013
Restoration Agriculture (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as permaculture)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,380 ratings — published 2013
Edible Forest Gardens, Volume 2: Ecological Design and Practice for Temperate Climate Permaculture (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as permaculture)
avg rating 4.64 — 340 ratings — published
Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as permaculture)
avg rating 4.40 — 3,426 ratings — published 2005
Permaculture Design: A Step by Step Guide (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as permaculture)
avg rating 3.94 — 297 ratings — published 2012
Earth User's Guide to Permaculture 2nd Edition (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as permaculture)
avg rating 4.13 — 283 ratings — published 1994
Creating a Forest Garden: Working with Nature to Grow Edible Crops (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as permaculture)
avg rating 4.44 — 444 ratings — published 2010
Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Volume 1: Guiding Principles to Welcome Rain Into Your Life and Landscape (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as permaculture)
avg rating 4.47 — 514 ratings — published
The Permaculture Handbook: Garden Farming for Town and Country (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as permaculture)
avg rating 4.11 — 339 ratings — published 2012
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as permaculture)
avg rating 4.49 — 192,425 ratings — published 2013
Permaculture 1: A Perennial Agriculture for Human Settlements (Permaculture, #1)
by (shelved 42 times as permaculture)
avg rating 4.41 — 164 ratings — published 1978
Teaming with Microbes: A Gardener's Guide to the Soil Food Web (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as permaculture)
avg rating 4.41 — 1,881 ratings — published 2006
People and Permaculture (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as permaculture)
avg rating 4.36 — 80 ratings — published 2012
Practical Permaculture: for Home Landscapes, Your Community, and the Whole Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as permaculture)
avg rating 4.13 — 490 ratings — published 2015
The Humanure Handbook: A Guide to Composting Human Manure (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as permaculture)
avg rating 4.41 — 1,062 ratings — published 1996
Perennial Vegetables: From Artichoke to Zuiki Taro, a Gardener's Guide to Over 100 Delicious, Easy-to-grow Edibles (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as permaculture)
avg rating 4.17 — 745 ratings — published 2007
Paradise Lot: Two Plant Geeks, One-Tenth of an Acre, and the Making of an Edible Garden Oasis in the City (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as permaculture)
avg rating 4.01 — 976 ratings — published 2013
The Only Possible Solution: How to Shape the Future for Our Next Generations (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 33 times as permaculture)
avg rating 4.37 — 2,125 ratings — published 2026
The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as permaculture)
avg rating 4.05 — 7,127 ratings — published 2020
The Earth Care Manual: A Permaculture Handbook for Britain and Other Temperate Climates (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as permaculture)
avg rating 4.48 — 145 ratings — published 2005
Thinking In Systems: A Primer (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as permaculture)
avg rating 4.17 — 25,316 ratings — published 2008
Farming the Woods: An Integrated Permaculture Approach to Growing Food and Medicinals in Temperate Forests (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as permaculture)
avg rating 4.35 — 186 ratings — published 2014
Edible Forest Gardens (2 volume set)
by (shelved 30 times as permaculture)
avg rating 4.48 — 326 ratings — published
Seed to Seed: Seed Saving and Growing Techniques for Vegetable Gardeners (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as permaculture)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,794 ratings — published 1995
Permaculture 2: Practical Design for Town and Country in Permanent Agriculture (Permaculture, #2)
by (shelved 29 times as permaculture)
avg rating 4.29 — 145 ratings — published 1979
The Permaculture City: Regenerative Design for Urban, Suburban, and Town Resilience (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as permaculture)
avg rating 4.10 — 193 ratings — published 2015
A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as permaculture)
avg rating 4.49 — 36,682 ratings — published 2020
Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as permaculture)
avg rating 4.16 — 16,599 ratings — published 2017
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as permaculture)
avg rating 4.16 — 28,465 ratings — published 2014
Abundance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as permaculture)
avg rating 3.87 — 57,377 ratings — published 2025
Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as permaculture)
avg rating 4.49 — 10,340 ratings — published 2020
The Holistic Orchard: Tree Fruits and Berries the Biological Way (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as permaculture)
avg rating 4.46 — 501 ratings — published 2012
Integrated Forest Gardening: The Complete Guide to Polycultures and Plant Guilds in Permaculture Systems (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as permaculture)
avg rating 4.03 — 103 ratings — published 2014
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
by (shelved 25 times as permaculture)
avg rating 4.42 — 5,597 ratings — published 1977
How to Grow More Vegetables: And Fruits, Nuts, Berries, Grains and Other Crops Than You Ever Thought Possible on Less Land Than You Can Imagine (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as permaculture)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,720 ratings — published 1979
Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 24 times as permaculture)
avg rating 4.21 — 45,104 ratings — published 2014
Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as permaculture)
avg rating 4.15 — 56,419 ratings — published 2024
Desert or Paradise: Restoring Endangered Landscapes Using Water Management, Including Lake and Pond Construction (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as permaculture)
avg rating 4.36 — 108 ratings — published 2012
The Permaculture Garden (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as permaculture)
avg rating 3.88 — 103 ratings — published 1994
Food Not Lawns: How to Turn Your Yard into a Garden and Your Neighborhood into a Community (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as permaculture)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,070 ratings — published 2006
How to Make a Forest Garden (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as permaculture)
avg rating 4.05 — 132 ratings — published 2002
Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as permaculture)
avg rating 4.09 — 12,815 ratings — published 2002
Beyond the War on Invasive Species: A Permaculture Approach to Ecosystem Restoration (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 22 times as permaculture)
avg rating 4.04 — 253 ratings — published 2015
![An Agricultural Testament [Paperback] (Author) Sir Albert Howard by Albert Howard](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1697868258l/159739729._SX98_.jpg "An Agricultural Testament [Paperback] (Author) Sir Albert Howard by Albert Howard")
“Capitalism is great at facilitating the maximization of production — regarding efficiency only as it effects the profit of the producer and the profit of the buyer in any given transaction. But permaculture economics is great at facilitating the maximization of productivity — regarding efficiency holistically and messing according to multiplicative value effects.”
― Principles of a Permaculture Economy
― Principles of a Permaculture Economy
“Pure capitalism is great at rewarding the creative utilization of capital by one group of people in service to another according to present gross utility and refined use cases. But pure capitalism does not address the intentional placement of boundaries or the intentional facilitation of productive interactions accounting for net utility and holistic use cases. This is why pure capitalism at times is threatened by or presents threats to a variety of social and ecological ecosystems. And this is why permaculture economics is superior to pure capitalism, as it contains all of the benefits of capitalism plus some benefits that capitalism does not provide .”
― Principles of a Permaculture Economy
― Principles of a Permaculture Economy
