Concept
Permaculture
Overview
agriculture practices using few energy resources and human intervention
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Possible passages
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If the productive powers of the country increase as rapidly as advancing numbers call for an augmentation of produce, it is not necessary to obtain that augmentation by the cultivation of soils more sterile than the worst already under culture, or by applying additional labor to the old soils at a diminished advantage; or at all events this loss of power is compensated by the increased efficiency with which, in the…
John Stuart Mill, Principles of Political Economy
States what Permaculture is.
They aim at cropping, not five or six tons of grass on the acre, as we do, but from 50 to 100 tons of various vegetables on the same space; not 5 pound sworth of hay, but 100 pounds worth of vegetables, of the plainest description, cabbage and carrots.[38]
Bertrand Russell, Proposed Roads to Freedom
Close in meaning to Permaculture; the term itself is not named.
With plants selection has been followed with the same good result as with animals. But the process is simpler, for plants in the great majority of cases bear both sexes. Nevertheless, with most kinds it is necessary to take as much care to prevent crosses as with animals or unisexual plants; but with some plants, such as peas, this care is not necessary. With all improved plants, excepting of course those which are…
Charles Darwin, The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication
States what Permaculture is.
Related ideas
- India
- Habitat
- Netherlands
- Philippines
- Systems theory
- Tao
- Emergence
- Irrigation
- Cuba
- Copyright
- Wu wei
- Ecosystem
- Synergy
- Agroecology
- Regenerative agriculture
- Community resilience
Place in the tradition
Part of Ecological economics.