"
We don't know
what the details
of a truly sustainable
future are going
to be like, but
we need options,
we need people
experimenting
in all kinds of
ways and permaculturists
are one of the
critical groups
doing that."
Dr David Suzuki,
biologist, geneticist,
broadcaster &
international
environmental
advocate.
“I
see a world in
the future in
which we understand
that all life
is related to
us & we treat
that life with
great humility
& respect.
I see us as social
creatures, &
when I began to
look back &
say, ‘what
is the fundamental
bottom line for
us as social creatures?’...I
couldn’t
believe it because
it seemed so hippy
dippy, but it
was Love. Love
is the force that
makes us fully
human.”
The
Permaculture Activist is a coevolving quarterly produced
by this dedicated handful of entirely part-time folks:
"...the
greatest change we need to make is from consumption to production,
even if on a small scale, in our own gardens. If only 10%
of us do this, there is enough for everyone. Hence the futility
of revolutionaries who have no gardens, who depend on the
very system they attack, and who produce words and bullets,
not food and shelter."
- Bill Mollison
Peter
Bane:
publisher, editor, author of The
Permaculture Handbook, designer,
teacher
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magazines out there. Articles
are well written by people
actually doing the work rather
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about it. I know - I worked
as a journalist for 25 years
until I decided to stop writing
and reporting the bad news
and actually get dirt under
my finger nails and grow some
food - after all, without
food we are dead... period!
If we have a future it will
be because of magazines like
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practical and indispensible,
if you want a look inside
the future."
Andrew Phillips "permaculture
teacher" (Hancock, New
York)
"The
Permaculture Activist is one
of the most important periodicals
of our time. Our world is
in the midst of experiencing
one of the greatest shortages
of natural resources we have
ever seen. It may not be completely
apparent to everyone, but
it is happening. What does
the Permaculture Activist
have to with this, you may
ask? Everything. The Permaculture
Activist offers in depth articles
which cover positive solutions
that every one of us can follow
to aid our planet in restoring
its natural resources as well
as preparing for the coming
energy shortfalls. Articles
range from Organic Gardening,
Natural Building, Relocalizing
Communities, all the way down
to art & traditional knowledge.
Anybody that has begun to
realize that we are not living
in this world the way we should
be must pick up this magazine."
Review by Sean Jennings (Santa
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A
new post-industrial, post-imperial
world is forming under our
feet - a holistic reality
to serve as a seed pattern
for future generations.
This new culture represents
the "graduation"
of the species to maturity
and biological legitimacy;
exemplified by miniature
rural and urban communities
that
meet most human needs within
their regions.
These models of bioregional
self-sufficiency arise from
a tide of cultural creation
that has been in motion
for some fifty years. Its
basic pieces have already
been road-tested over several
decades, even centuries
in some regions. Permaculture
is one of several models
which addresses the increasing
destabilization of civilization.
The
basic behavior mode of the
world system is exponential
growth of population and
capital followed by collapse.
If
all the humans on the earth
now were able to see the whole
picture at the same time and
take action, the situation
could be handled over the
whole earth even now. But,
until this occurs, we will
be moving foward and we can
be the people who have the
ability to demonstrate to
others how to survive.
Our job is to help you do
just that.
"Permanent
agriculture" or "permanent
culture,"
a
term coined by Australians
David Holmgren and Bill
Mollison in the 1970s, describes
a
design
system for creating human
settlements that function
in harmony with nature.
Incorporating traditional
knowledge, modern science,
and the ecological patterns
of the living world, permaculture
design is applicable to
farms, gardens, organizations,
housing developments, towns
and villages, or city neighborhoods.
Since
1978, more than 100 thousand
individuals on all continents
have learned, through ongoing
Permaculture
Design Course trainings,
the principles of
energy flow and materials
cycling,
and theappropriate
technologies of self-reliant
living: gardening, shelter,
water and waste management,
aquaculture, forestry, and
how to organize supportive
local economies.
The
aim of this grassroots international
movement is to supply information
that enables people everywhere
to provide for their own
& their communities'
needs for food, energy,
shelter, & a decent
life without exploitation
or pollution & from
the smallest practical area
of land.
Cancer's
Cure "The
ultimate end to a growth economy
is the same as an analagous
growth: cancer.
But for national economies,
the victims are nature, soils,
forests, people, water, and
quality of life.
There is one, and only one,
solution, and we have almost
no time to try it. We must turn all our resources
to repairing the natural world,
and train all our young people
to help.They want
to.
We need to give them this
last chance to create forests,
soils, clean waters, clean
energies, secure communities,
stable regions, and to
know how to do it from hands-on
experience" Bill Mollison
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A
new post-industrial, post-imperial
world is forming under our
feet - a holistic reality
to serve as a seed pattern
for future generations.
This new culture represents
the "graduation"
of the species to maturity
and biological legitimacy;
exemplified by miniature
rural and urban communities
that
meet most human needs within
their regions. 
