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PERMACULTURE:Principles & Pathways Beyond
Sustainability
If the 'Permaculture Principles' that David Holmgren
discusses in this extremely important book were applied to all that we
do,we would be well on the road to sustainability, and
beyond.
Professor Stuart B.
Hill
(Foundation Chair of Social Ecology University
of Western Sydney)
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This book uses permaculture principles as a framework
for an empowering but challenging vision of creative adaptation to a world
of energy descent. David Holmgren builds on the extraordinary success of
the permaculture concept (which he co-originated with Bill Mollison 25
years ago) and the global permaculture movement, to provide a more
cerebral and controversial contribution to the sustainability
debate.
 320 pages, B&W
graphics and design principle icons
Available from the publisher
and selected bookshops December 2002
National distribution to
bookshops February 2003
Capital city launches start in Adelaide in
January
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Unlike previous books by David Holmgren which have highlighted
practical case studies in permaculture design, Permaculture: Principles
and Pathways Beyond Sustainability brings into sharper focus the
powerful and still evolving Permaculture concept he pioneered with Bill
Mollison in the 1970's. It draws together and integrates 25 years of
thinking and teaching to show a whole new way of understanding and action
behind a simple set of design principles.
Thia book is relevant to every aspect of how we reorganise our lives,
communities and landscapes to creatively adapt to ecological realities
which shape human destiny.
For students and teachers of permaculture this book provides something
more fundamental and distilled than Mollison's encyclopedic Designers
Manual.
For the general reader this book provides refreshing perspectives on a
range of environmental issues and shows how permaculture is much more than
a system of gardening.
For anyone seriously interested in understanding the foundations for
sustainable design and culture, this book is essential reading. Although a
book of ideas, the big picture is repeatedly grounded by reference to
Holmgren's own patch, Melliodora and other
practical examples.
CONTENTS :
- Introduction
- What Is Permaculture
- Popular and academic reactions
- Ethical and Design Principles
- Ethical Principles
- Care of the Earth
- Care of People
- Distribute Surplus and Set Limits to Consumption and Reproduction
- Design Principles
- Observe and Interact
- Catch and Store Energy
- Obtain a Yield
- Apply Self Regulation and Accept Feedback
- Use and Value Renewable Resources and Services
- Produce No Waste
- Design From Patterns To Details
- Integrate Rather Than Segregate
- Use Small and Slow Solutions
- Use and Value Diversity
- Use Edges and Value The Marginal
- Creatively Use and Respond To Change
The "Essence of Permaculture"
provides a taste of the new book and the icons used for each of the design
principles
SIZE: 320 pages, B&W graphics
RECOMMENDED RETAIL PRICE: $38.00
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HEPBURN PERMACULTURE GARDENS: Ten
Years of Sustainable Living
Book Review by Ian Lillington, Permaculture
International Journal
When I first heard about Permaculture I thought it was for
large acreages in the sub tropics. My first visit to David Holmgren's and
Su Dennett's place in 1989 entirely changed my thinking. Here was a
passive solar house and a food production system on one hectare, in a cool
climate, in a town. It worked: the house was warm in winter, cool in
summer and the land provided all the vegetables and most of the fruit for
the family!
 Throughout
the 10 year history of the project, David has kept detailed records and
photos, which have been collated into a very unusual book. It has A3 size
landscape pages, so at a single opening it covers your desk! Each spread
has a theme- such as house design, orchard, or animals with maps, plans
photos and text.
The book was written inside the property it is describing
- it's a kind of autobiography. It was written over a five year period,
and with property now "established", the text has been revised with the
benefits of hindsight. It is ideal for anyone seriously interested in
sustainable living - both at a practical level and with a good dose of
Holmgren holistic thinking.
The meticulous detail allows the reader to trace the
development of the property from the purchase of a steep weed-infested
site, through the early stages of blackberry slashing, dam construction
and tree planting to the "finished" product of family home, office,
workshop, greenhouse, and integrated living systems with perennial plants
and a range of animals fulfilling many functions.
Hepburn is in central Victoria, 470 metres above sea
level, in the Great Dividing Range, north of Melbourne. It is an arboretum
for cool climate Permaculture and the book has an extensive species list
(over 170 listings)
Twenty years on from the first draft of "Permaculture
One", this book shows that Permaculture works...." |
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HEPBURN PERMACULTURE GARDENS: The
CD
This CD provides a timely update 5 years on from the publication
of the book. As well as a digital copy of the book (pdf file readable with Adobe
Acrobat Reader), the CD includes all the original photos in 
colour and some new photographs showing the growth of the
gardens.
Also included is valuable update information on;
- cool cupboard design lessons
- house performance hindsight and retrofit
- soil mineral balance problems and solutions
- goat management in orchard
New update information will be added to the CDs at regular
intervals.
Inquire about price and first edition
publication date
THE FLYWIRE
HOUSE:
A Case Study in Design Against
Bushfire
This small book is packed with information about the principles
and practice of fire resistant, landscape and house design in ways in which are
energy efficient, sustainable and productive: the essence of permaculture. It
takes the form of a case study design? for a property burnt out in the
catastrophic Ash Wednesday fires of 1983 in the Dandenong Ranges of Victoria.
This work has been applied in many designs by Holmgren Design Services including
Hepburn Permaculture Gardens. The ideas are applicable to all fire prone
regions.
Currently out of print
PERMACULTURE IN
THE BUSH:
The Design and Development of a
Homestead On the Far South Coast of N.S.W...
For those familiar with the basic concepts of permaculture, this
case study design show how the principles have been applied to the inevitably
unique conditions of a particular site and locality by permaculture's foremost
practitioner. It provides information about a permaculture site, otherwise only
accessible through local residential permaculture design courses. This small
book is packed with technical information on land assessment, earthworks, water
supply, soil improvement, passive solar and fire resistant design adaptable to a
range of situations but especially for people developing bush
properties
Currently out of print
TREES ON THE TREELESS PLAINS:
Revegetation Manual For The Volcanic Landscapes Of Central
Victoria
This design manual is a result of years of research and
observation into the role and potential of trees and shrubs on farms. It
addresses the transformation of broader farm landscapes through the application
of permaculture principles to revegetation. The manual includes revegetation
strategies and design solutions relevant to increasing and diversifying farm
productivity while stabilising the landscape. It also address the public land on
roadsides, stream sides and reserves.
The case study approach of the manual uses the volcanic
landscapes as a focus to describe land types, local native species and to
provide strategies, design solutions and species lists. It is directly relevant
to some of the most valuable agricultural land in Victoria including the
extensive Western Districts. A comprehensive species index of native and
introduced trees and shrubs with proven performance provides a ready guide to
species selection for different situations and purposes. For private and public
land managers of the volcanic landscapes this manual is an essential
reference.
For a wider audience concerned with revegetation, this book
provides a design system approach and principles applicable everywhere to assist
in the development of local strategies and design solutions.
Price $55 plus handling and postage
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For over twenty
years David Holmgren has observed, researched, discussed and debated the
controversial issue of what is an environmentally progressive response to weeds
and pests. Over the last five years he has been working on a book (WEEDS OR
WILD NATURE :Migrant Plants and Animals in Australia ) which gives a
positive and empowering portrait of our relationship to nature and lays out a
clear challenge to the emerging environmental orthodoxy about the evils of plant
and animal naturalisations.
For an introduction to David's perspective on this subject, the
article Weeds or Wild
Nature is a good start (published in the Permaculture International
Journal issue 61 in 1997). Articles 1, 18 and 20 in the Collected Writing CD
also explore this subject while the theoretical foundations for these
perspectives are explained in Permaculture:
Principles & Pathways Beyond Sustainability
For an example ofthe application of these ideas to practical
management of mixed urban fringe streamside vegetation see report by David
Holmgren Upper Spring Creek Restoration Project Management Report on Daylesford
Regional Landcare Group web site.
