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Permaculture
A genre that focuses on sustainable gardening using permaculture principles.
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In any economic ecosystem whereby things are measured primarily according to their present gross utility; it becomes tolerable and even profitable to create, sell and buy products and services which cause net future harm even as they provide present gross utility. This is why a permaculture economy is superior to every other economic ecosystem.
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― Principles of a Permaculture Economy
― Principles of a Permaculture Economy
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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
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― Principles of a Permaculture Economy
― Principles of a Permaculture Economy
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