Permaculture – this link is the to Wikipedia discussion on Permaculture, and I find it very thorough. I define it as a mindset of using modern methods – ie – LEDs, for creating sustainable, organic, growing. It is both a social and educational way of thinking that takes us back to the soils with all of the modern-day tools of architecture, agronomy and sceintific understanding of how plants grow and produce crops. The idea is to take the mix knowledge of hundreds of years of growing practices with today’s knowledge base and create a non-chemical, sustainable method of using as little resources as possible, and then recycling all we can.
I had been interested in Permaculture through my readings and in 2014 I received my Permaculture Certificate through 100 hours of study at the Resiliency Institue in Naperville. I enjoyed the study and found the fascinating and some of the most educated and smartest people I have come across. Even though the lecturers could have easily spun out of control into the Apocalyptical world of Global Warming, Fossil Fuel Shortages, Water Shortages, and other end-of-the-world-as-know it, scenarios, they were fascinating. The head Permaculturest was Peter Bane – publisher of the Permaculture Activist magazine, and Rhonda Baird a brilliant earth-mother if there ever was one. I believe this loose association of dedicated “hippies” is sincerely trying to change the world small bits at a time and are trying to build the movement of Permaculture into a real knowledge-based organization.
