The Holistic Life: Sustainability through Permaculture

book cover: The Holistic Life

 Ian Lillington, 2007, 144 pages full colour

Ian Lillington first heard about permaculture when working on an inner-city farm in Liverpool, England in the 1980s. Soon he was involved in the international permaculture network, applying its principles and practices to house and garden design and community development. 

In this timely book, Ian sets out the vision for a sustainable planet as well as methods we can all use to get there. The time has now come to get serious about using alternatives and conserving what we already have, rather than living as if there is an unlimited supply of what we all know to be limited resources. Here are some simple starting points which you can implement to be the change you wish to see in the world.

• Meeting New Challenges

• Permaculture­An Antidote to Consumer Society

• Feeding Ourselves

• Growing your own

• Personal and household strategies for sustainable living

• Some Simple Starting Points

• Using less fossil fuel­Understanding our energy addiction

• Villages within the city and Community Gardens

• Permaculture Principles 

Ian began teaching permaculture on a Permaculture Design Course in 1992 (in Manchester, UK), and then moved to Hepburn Springs, Australia to work with David Holmgren (co-originator of the permaculture concept), and continued teaching at his demonstration home in Willunga and at the Food Forest, South Australia 

Now living in Castlemaine, Central Victoria, Ian is active in a town where ‘re-localisation’ is well underway, with a very active Sustainability Group, and is employed as a project manager to assist with the development of small-scale housing clusters and sustainability initiatives in schools.

David Holmgren says:

This book is a great place to start for anyone wanting to live more sustainably. Ian Lillington fulfils a need for a simple and up to date introduction to permaculture. He highlights how our own behaviour is a central issue in permaculture design with concrete examples of how living permaculture reconstructs our world.
This overview of the scope of permaculture solutions is especially made real through Ian's own experience in a wide range of locations.
Beyond this down-to-earth and practical approach, Ian's simple explanation and interpretation of permaculture ethics and design principles provides an accessible insight into the theory of permaculture.



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