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Permaculture: A Designers' Manual
An encyclopedic treatment of permaculture, this book is essential for students, landowners, public policy-makers, and others interested in revolutionizing modern farming and land use. Highly detailed chapters cover everything one might ever need to know about the permaculture philosophy and its applications to land-use design, systems analysis, climatic factors (including...more
Hardcover, 574 pages
Published
October 1st 1997
by Tagari Publications
(first published 1988)
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Everything you ever wanted to know about Permaculture but didn't have a week to hear the explanation. Check this out at the library. The damned thing costs somewhere around eighty bucks. It's very good, but not that good.
Readers who have become isolated from nature will feel as though they've been hit upside the head with this five pound hardcover. Mollison teaches us that working with nature means learning to see frugality as beautiful. Don't just water your plants, plant them so the water poo...more
Readers who have become isolated from nature will feel as though they've been hit upside the head with this five pound hardcover. Mollison teaches us that working with nature means learning to see frugality as beautiful. Don't just water your plants, plant them so the water poo...more
just found this! woo hoo. this is one of the books that will make you say holy shit why am i working for the man when i could be living. you know. just living. and enjoying and watching the clouds come by and seeing how everything is completely connected and feeling that connection.
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I've read this whole thing now, it took one year. All I can say is that this is all damn good common sense and this book is the real foundation work articulating Permaculture design. It is a masterpiece.
We can conciously design our future reality, one that works and provides for us much better than we're currently heading for. We can look at it this way on any scale. Its about how we can learn to make gardens superseed most of 'primary industry' as modern idustrial agriculture meets its inevitab...more
We can conciously design our future reality, one that works and provides for us much better than we're currently heading for. We can look at it this way on any scale. Its about how we can learn to make gardens superseed most of 'primary industry' as modern idustrial agriculture meets its inevitab...more
“The greatest change we need to make is from consumption to production, even if on a small scale, in our own gardens. If only 10% of us do this, there is enough for everyone. Hence the futility of revolutionaries who have no gardens, who depend on the very system they attack, and who produce words and bullets, not food and shelter.”
― Bill Mollison
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― Bill Mollison
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Authoritative and encyclopedic, well illustrated, this fascinating and useful book is what we need to move forward out of the wretched mess of unsustainable industrialization and the robotic behavior it causes in society. It details permanent sustainable agriculture techniques for a huge range of bioregional situations of flora, climate, landforms, precipitation, and other elements of nature.
Even if you're not a gardener, if you work with systems at all (and if you're living, you do), this is THE book on how they work and how to be an effective part. And while you're applying the contents metaphorically, you'll be learning all about how the planet you live on operates. Welcome to Earth!
Read this to experience a profound shift in perspective, from consumer to producer. Many new books have been written on the subject, but this one is still considered the foundation of the philosophy and practice of permaculture.
Read this many years ago when living in Tasmania> The "Bible" of the permaculture revolution, as it was known then. Great book with some terrific ideas about the way we grow our food and design our natural living space.
Extremely thorough and informative book. In fact, I couldn't even get through the whole thing because it was so incredibly detailed. I will have to check it out again sometime when I have more time to peruse through it.
There is a lot of practical wisdom in this book for a variety of geographical and climatic locations. Some of Mollison's systems are pure practical genius.
Awesome and world changing in scope. A large tome covering and explaining the concept and practical applications of permaculture
Every human being should read this!
Semua manusia wajib baca buku ini!
Semua manusia wajib baca buku ini!
One of the best books on permaculture: a classic.
This has got to be the "bible" of permaculture books. It is quite thorough, filled with diagrams and examples. It is a book that is not only about learning to garden by imitating the strengths observed in nature, but it is also about a philosophy of life that I find attractive in many ways. Ultimately, I think we are all going to have to chose to live in either a permaculture-partnership world, or in a command-and-control/new feudalism world. I'm for permaculture-partnership.
May 20, 2008
Chris
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5 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
gardeners, farmers, ecologists, planners, and politicians
a.k.a. The Permaculture Bible
This is not light reading by any means - definitely more of a text book than a sit-down-and-read-it book. It's jam packed with information and ideas.
I thin most everyone should read about permaculture, but this isn't the book to introduce them to the idea.
This is not light reading by any means - definitely more of a text book than a sit-down-and-read-it book. It's jam packed with information and ideas.
I thin most everyone should read about permaculture, but this isn't the book to introduce them to the idea.
This book is filled with great ideas and keen observations. The writing is encyclopedic in style and the editing is poor. Despite the good content, this book is only for dedicated farmers, gardeners, environmentalists, and thinkers.
Honestly? Bill is just a rambler with a lot of big ideas. There's much better books on the topic out there that will actually inform the reader and make them feel smart, not stupid. It does have a lot of rad pictures though.
The manual on permaculture. Mollison's opus reads like a spiritual textbook for the secular humanist. Drawings alone are worth the hefty price tag.
Sexy! The best, most complete, most hard to come by (and often expensive) manual on permaculture by the homnid who made it happen.
A very thorough introduction to Permaculture, with many many facts that one will have to come back to as the design is set up.
Self maintaing gardens that provide natures bounty and are environmentally balanced, what could be better than that?
I've only read a couple chapters so far, but this book is amazing. It could become my bible.
what have i learned from this book? the only things worth knowing...
mollison is a crusty cantankerous curmudgeon. he's great.
learning about how this relates to where I live
Fantastic resource.
Dense reading, some over my head. I admire this man's work and vision.
Jun 17, 2013
Lily Shaw
marked it as to-read
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Founder and director of the Permaculture Institute, Bill is the most experienced Permaculture teacher and designer today. He has taught and developed projects from the Arctic through Sub-tropics and Equatorial regions of the planet. There are few countries left in the world where he has not personally planted the seeds of Permaculture. The Peoples of the Pacific, South East Asia, South Africa and...more
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