The Permaculture City: Regenerative Design for Urban, Suburban, and Town Resilience
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| Rating | : | 4.97 (641 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B0106MK8E4 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 130 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-07-05 |
| Language | : | English |
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Toby Hemenway, one of the leading practitioners and teachers of permaculture design, illuminates a new way forward through examples of edge-pushing innovations, along with a deeply holistic conceptual framework for our cities, towns, and suburbs.The Permaculture City begins in the garden but takes what we have learned there and applies it to a much broader range of human experience; we’re not just gardening plants but people, neighborhoods, and even cultures. Hemenway lays out how permaculture design can help towndwellers solve the challenges of meeting our needs for food, water, shelter, energy, community, and livelihood in sustainable, resilient ways. Understanding nature can do more than improve how we grow, make, or consume things; it can also teach us how to cooperate, make decisions, and arrive at good solutions.. And nowhere are those remedies more needed and desired than in our cities. The Permacultur
His new book, The Permaculture City, is the much-needed urban version, a great introduction and full of important information on adapting permaculture to an urban environment."--Starhawk, permaculture designer and author of The Empowerment Manual“The Permaculture City is a triumph in bringing the wisdom of permaculture practices to city dwellers. Although permaculture practices originally began with small-scale farms and gardens in mind, in his latest work Hemenway presents a much larger vision of applying them to metropolitan settings. In what is more than simply a handbook on finding space to grow fruits and vegetables in the concrete jungle, the author demonstrates just how widely the permaculture net can be cast by including advice on sustainably managing critical urban resources such as water, shelter, electricity, and even community centers. neighborhoods practicing permaculture principles with black-and-white
"Cocreating and collaborating a more beautiful world" according to Blair Frank. Beginning in urban areas regenerating dead systems into life giving systems with a wholeness perspective using permaculture design Principles Tools Problems into solutions. "Recommend to Everyone!!" according to Amazon Customer. Amazing book with very helpful and diverse information and I love how he breaks ideas down so it is easy to understand, but not unnecessarily. I recommend this book to everybody and is useful if you are designing a small yard to a few acres or are interested in how we can make cities more sustainable and energy efficient.. A must read for more sustainable living! jimbo Excellent look on how to scale permaculture for an urban setting.
At about the time he was growing dissatisfied with the direction biotechnology was taking, he discovered permaculture, a design approach based on ecological principles that creates sustainable landscapes, homes, and workplaces. A career change followed, and Toby and his wife spent ten years creating a rural permaculture site in southern Oregon. He taught permaculture and consulted and lectured on ecological design throughout the country, and his writing appeared in magazines