[Sdpg] Website for Gaias's Garden A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture

[Wesley Roe and Marjorie Lakin Erickson]

Website for Gaias's Garden  A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture

http://www.patternliteracy.com/


Permaculture: A Pattern for
Whole Systems Design

Of all the various incarnations of ecological design, sustainable living, 
holistic systems management, and related big-picture ideas for living on a 
small planet, the one that grabs me is permaculture. None of the other 
schemes seem so complete, self-contained, and naturally integrated. That 
may be because permaculture design combines a set of coherent and 
interlinked principles, an energy- and resource-conserving attention to 
relative placement of elements, and, unlike most other design systems, a 
set of ethical guidelines. It is also amply broad-reaching to appeal to a 
discipline-roaming generalist like me.

Permaculture is notoriously hard to define in a sound-bite. Here's one way 
to describe it: If you think of natural building, sustainable agriculture, 
solar energy, graywater recycling, consensus process, and the like as 
tools, then permaculture is the toolbox that helps organize those tools and 
suggests how and when to use them. Some of the writings and links here may 
help deepen your understanding of this vast subject.

I make my living teaching, writing, and consulting about permaculture and 
related fields. On these pages you'll find a list of my upcoming courses, 
workshops, and public appearances with links to their venues, plus links to 
other resources for permaculture and ecological design. You'll also find 
articles I've written for the various publications, including the magazine 
Permaculture Activist, where I'm associate editor. More articles and 
reources will be added over time.

Here also are excerpts from my book, Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale 
Permaculture, the first major North American book on permaculture.
[Gaia's Garden]

Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture
by Toby Hemenway
(Chelsea Green, 2001, with a foreword by John Todd)

Order Gaia's Garden
Reviews   Table of Contents

Excerpts:   Introduction

Using the Book

Birds in the Garden

Introduction to Guilds

Guild Design