Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A system of perennial agriculture emphasizing the use of renewable natural resources and the enrichment of local ecosystems.
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- noun Any system of
sustainable agriculture thatrenews natural resources andenriches localecosystems . - noun The design, installation and maintenance of indefinitely sustainable human communities set in balanced ecologies, both urban and rural.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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The movement's founders, Bill Mollison and David Holmgren, coined the term permaculture in the mid-1970s, as a portmanteau of permanent agriculture and permanent culture.
NYT > Home Page By MICHAEL TORTORELLO 2011
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The idea is not complicated, but the term permaculture (permanent agriculture) is most likely unfamiliar to most people.
Energy Bulletin - Pargman 2010
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The idea is not complicated, but the term permaculture (permanent agriculture) is most likely unfamiliar to most people.
Energy Bulletin - 2010
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And it's not only the soil that matters in permaculture, but what is grown in it as well.
Danielle Nierenberg: Don't Sweep Away Crop Diversity Danielle Nierenberg 2010
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And it's not only the soil that matters in permaculture, but what is grown in it as well.
Danielle Nierenberg: Don't Sweep Away Crop Diversity Danielle Nierenberg 2010
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For today, the important thing about permaculture is that you create/encourage a system that can maintain itself almost indefinitely.
Apollo's Daughter :: March 27th, 2009 apollosdtr 2009
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And it's not only the soil that matters in permaculture, but what is grown in it as well.
Danielle Nierenberg: Don't Sweep Away Crop Diversity Danielle Nierenberg 2010
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And it's not only the soil that matters in permaculture, but what is grown in it as well.
Danielle Nierenberg: Don't Sweep Away Crop Diversity Danielle Nierenberg 2010
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For today, the important thing about permaculture is that you create/encourage a system that can maintain itself almost indefinitely.
Chickens vs. property values - STLtoday.com apollosdtr 2009
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- Bill Mollison, co-founder of the world-wide permaculture movement. permaculture is short not only for "permanent agriculture", but also "permanent culture".
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His now classic “Mars” trilogy, published in the nineteen-nineties, describes the terraforming of the Red Planet by scientists seeking to create a “permaculture,” or truly sustainable way of life.
Can Science Fiction Wake Us Up to Our Climate Reality? Condé Nast 2022
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