Aryana Libris

Author : Mollison Bill
Title : Permaculture A Designers' Manual
Year : 1988

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This book is about designing sustainable human settlements, and preserving and extending natural systems. lt covers aspects of designing and maintaining a cultivated ecology in any climate: the principles of design; design methods; understanding patterns in nature; climatic factors; water; soils; earthworks; techniques and strategies in the different climatic types; aquaculture; and the social, legal, and economJc design of human settlement. Il caUs into question not only the current methods of agriculture but aJso the very need for a formai food agriculture if wastelands and the excessive lawn culture within towns and cilies are devoted to food production and small livestock suited to local needs. The world can no longer sustain the damage caused by modern agriculture, monoculture! forestry, and thoughtless settlement design. and in the near future we will see the end of wasted energy, or the end of civilization as we lcnow il, due to human-caused pollution and climate changes. Strategies for the necessary changes in social investment policy, politics itself, and towards regional or village self-reliance are now desperately needed, and examples of these strategies are given. lt is hoped that this manual will open the global debate that must never end, and so give a guide to the form of a future in which our children have at !east a chance of a reasonable existence. ...