Permaculture - A Brief Introduction

Permaculture shows, of course, how to manage an eco-garden, compost and create a mini food forest, but also how to gradually set up a local exchange system or create a business, maximizing useful interactions.

Permaculture, a term coined in Australia in the 1970s, involves creating sustainable habitats for humans by following nature's patterns. It is ecological design applied, initially, to agriculture, but also to housing, domestic life, and local development.

In this lively and lavishly illustrated mini-manual, Graham Burnett lays out the design principles found in natural systems that we should strive to emulate: an abundance of boundaries and transition zones, multiple and successive functions, cycles, and self-sufficiency. The idea is to work with nature, not against it, minimizing the effort required (the author's optimal level of intervention: "doing nothing").

Permaculture shows, of course, how to manage an eco-garden, compost and create a mini food forest, but also how to gradually set up a local exchange system or create a business, maximizing useful interactions.

This new classic of ecological design, reminiscent of the famous Whole Earth Catalog found in every town in the 1970s, has had three editions since its first publication in England 15 years ago. This is its first appearance in French.

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"A simple and engaging introduction, a very useful and important tool."
— Rob Hopkins, founder of the Transition movement

Author: Graham Burnett
Publisher: Écosociété (Montreal, QC)/resilience
Publication date: 2012 (2013 for the French edition)
Pages: 144
ISBN: 978-2-89719-060-6