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It was a great deal, they answered me in no time.The product arrived in perfect conditions, and record time.Thanks for everything guys.cheers
The most exciting part about Permaculture is how it can be applied anyplace, without big budgets, beginning today. Learn to design with consideration of the elements, begin to see the natural patterns which make up the world, utilize the resources already around us to meet the demands and needs that exist. Grow in your understanding of water and its role, how to store it and clean it and reuse it again and again; Increase your understanding of soil and its role in creating and maintaining life.
This book, as a foundation of Permaculture Design, does just the opposite. We are each powerful enough to bring forth needed change. So many books show us just how unsustainable our societies are, and leave us feeling hopeless and powerless.
We begin to understand the movement of the sun; the changes of climate; trees and plants and their interaction with their surrounding environment. Yet it is also relevant on a much broader and grander scale. There are many challenges in the world today, but there are also many solutions.if only we begin applying them.
This book provides a framework to begin understanding the natural processes around us, and lays out principles of design that anyone can apply to redesign the way we interface with this world.
I wish the publisher would print a new edition, I am sure its not this expensive and people are trying to take advantage of people. was the book this expensive when it came out. I am sure its worth 100+ but these are all being sold by others sellers and not amazon.
For the tropics, see [.]. If you live and plan to practice permaculture in only such climates, it should be sufficient. For those living in temperate climates, particularly the NE US, Dave Jacke/Eric Toensmeier's Edible Forest Gardens is more focused.
It would be the bible for anyone working as an ecological designer on a worldwide scale. That said, it is not an easy read. Mollison must be credited with promotion of the concept of Permaculture and this book is a world-wide view with enough examples to stimulate the thinking of a designer in any climate.
Mollison assumes familiarity with terminology from many disciplines, but with a scientific background it makes it all the more credible.However, since its publication, there are other books for specific climate types that provide more detail. for a manual. This tome includes not only a wealth of information but Mollison's personal views are given at every opportunity as well.
With the breadth of his knowledge it can sometimes be helpful.
Bill Mollison represents the most successful attempt to mainstream practical home-scale sustainable design principles. See: Seed to Seed - by Suzanne Ashworth and Kent WhealyBreed your own Vegetable Varieties - by Carol Deppe2) He very rarely mentions the role mushrooms and fungi can play in sustainability.See:Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World by Paul Stamets3) He doesn't stress the science behind it enough, which is fine, but leaves you asking sometimes. The book remains the best book on sustainability written to date. Understand that I deeply appreciate his genius, but I want to just mention that these other things need to be integrated into his system to be fully fully sustainable.1) He doesn't pay enough attention to seed saving and plant breeding.
See:Plant Ecophysiological EcologyNew Dimensions in Agro-EcologySmallholders, Householders: farm families and the ecology of intensive sustainable agriculture - by Rober Netting4) In relation to the first point, he also doesn't stress the role that evolution plays in sustainability. how do we know this is really ecologically sound. mollison but still create an ecologically sound system. This is a very complicated problem, see book.See:Evolutionary Conservation Biology.These are not really criticism so much as signs of slight conceptual anal retentiveness on my part. Basically, Mollison's proscriptions are incredibly scientifically informed but not always scientifically explicit. I found myself needing to do an enormous amount of supplementary research to actually understand what bill was talking about, but to explain them in depth here would have taken away from the thrust of the book - which is mainly to show you example after example (many on every page) at sustainable principles of design put into practice.
How can I NOT imitate mr. Also please don't forget mollison's OTHER books which are incredible as well, especially the permaculture book of ferment and human nutrition. There are some aspects of his system that are lacking that I will briefly draw attention to. A loss of seed diversity and a re-invigoration of seed savers is essential to truly sustainable self-sufficient design.
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