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Harness the power of permaculture to change yourself and become a regenerative force for the planet.
Human Permaculture is a powerful, forward-thinking guide that uses permaculture principles of ecological design rooted in people care, Earth care, and fair share for redesigning your life and community to align with the resources available on the planet.
As climate change, ecological decline, and social breakdown start to bite, people expect that governments will solve our problems. Yet this belief has proven to be false. Rather than looking to others, changes must come from the inside out: transforming the “I” to “we,” changing the world by changing ourselves, and re-establishing our deep connection to nature.
Richly illustrated and inspiring, Human Permaculture offers specific actions and tools for adopting an ethical, regenerative way of life. Coverage includes:
Human permaculture principles
A nine-step ecological and social life design process
Discovering your personal niche
Stimulating the permaculture “edge effect” to work with others in efficient teams
Rediscovering our deep connections to water, soil, forests, and caring for nature.
This guide is for everyone who wants to find their own meaning in life, put their talents at the service of the environment, live ethically, and navigate the great transition we face in a future of climate change and energy decline.
Bernard Alonso is co-founder of the Collaborative International University of Transition and a human permaculture facilitator, speaker, coach, and project designer. He lives in Quebec, Canada. www.permacultureinternationale.org
Cécile Guiochon is a French journalist and holder of a Permaculture Design Certificate. She co-founded KerWatt, which develops citizen projects renewable energy in Brittany, France. www.e-ker.org
From the Publisher
Human permaculture provides a framework using principles of permaculture to help you create a sustainable existence.
Have you ever asked yourself, what makes a good life?
“By closely examining the second directive of permaculture — people care – this beautifully illustrated book applies design science to one of the oldest questions ever asked: what makes a good life? The younger you are, the sooner you need to read this.”
— Albert Bates, author, The Biochar Solution and Burn
Apply the ethics of permaculture to design a sustainable existence for yourself.
Permaculture rests on the idea that nature is spontaneously abundant – that life begets life indefinitely through the interrelation of all it’s existing forms.
Designed to help you rethink and understand your place within our interconnected world.
“This book could not have arrived at a more crucial time. The coronavirus pandemic has upended our food system, requiring us to rethink it quickly and in broad strokes. The principles for doing so, to the benefit of people and planet, are all contained herein. Accessible, well-grounded, and profound.”
— Richard Heinberg, The End of Growth
Learn permaculture techniques to help you make your life easier and more meaningful.
Discover key ways you can care for the earth starting in your own home and garden.
The term mulch refers to the plant (or sometimes mineral) covering that is spread on the ground at the base of plants in order to limit evaporation, mitigate runoff, and retain soil moisture. Applying mulch, or mulching, keeps the soil soft, facilitating humus formation through the decomposition of organic material. Moreover, mulching limits the growth of pioneer plants.
Begin to uncover how your current actions will impact the later generations and ensure those actions will have a positive impact in the future.
“This is an outstanding book bringing together the theory and the practice of the most enlightened way of growing food, harvesting energy, and living in harmony with our precious planet Earth. It is an inspirational, as well as a practical, book. It celebrates the soil, nourishes the soul, and sustains the human spirit.”
— Satish Kumar, author, Elegant Simplicity, founder, Schumacher College
Creating change in our outside world starts by first transforming our inner landscape.
Sustainable, profound, and conscious change only moves in one direction: from interior to exterior. Such change roots us in our deepest dimension, in our relationship with that which is “bigger than ourselves” and in our relationships with other people and with society.
ASIN : B07V26T43Y
Publisher : New Society Publishers (September 1, 2020)
Publication date : September 1, 2020
Language : English
File size : 17428 KB
Text-to-Speech : Enabled
Screen Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
X-Ray : Not Enabled
Word Wise : Enabled
Print length : 241 pages