The Permaculture Promise: What Permaculture Is and How It Can Help Us by Jono Neiger
This is a book to give to the people in your life that have heard you say the word "Permaculture" more than a few times, but to whom your explanations still don't make much sense. This book is a simple overview of Permaculture ideas, filled with gorgeous and inspiring photos, making the underpinnings and basic concepts of Permaculture intelligible and real to someone who is brand new to all of this.
I do like "
Building a Better World in Your Backyard" very much, but
this one is the book you give to somebody first to make him say, "Okay, wow--Permaculture. I want some of this. But what do I have to do?" and
then you swoop in with one of your 24 copies of BBW. It is so positive, so clear, and gives concrete pictures (via words
and photos) of how things
could be, and actually
are in some profiled locations, that Permaculture seems like a real thing that is both possible and exciting.
I really like the design and layout. It's set up sort of like a popular magazine--which is why I think it would have wide appeal--and filled with simply and clearly expressed definitions, explanations, and examples. Not too much, not too little, just what someone needs to get started thinking and doing differently.
I wish the publisher (Storey) would do a promotion where we could help get this book out in circulation too!
“If we are honest, we can still love what we are, we can find all the good there is to find, and we may find ways to enhance that good, and to find a new kind of living world which is appropriate for our time.” ― Christopher Alexander
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