Permaculture creates abundance while restoring and maintaining resources, while modern agriculture draws abundance by consuming finite resources.
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Joseph Lofthouse wrote:
I was a research scientist trained in a rigorous science (chemistry) . The laws of chemistry and physics are the same everywhere and every-time. With that bias I am skeptical of claims that permaculture is a science... Industrial agriculture qualifies as a science in my mind, because soil samples are taken to a lab, and absorption spectrometry is done on the samples, and so many pounds of boron, or other elements are added to the fields... I don't see that happening in permaculture. In permaculture someone asks a question and the response is "It depends"... That doesn't seem like a science based answer to me. That seems like the answer an artist would give, or a philosopher, or a druid...
For what it's worth, I graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Chemistry, which was a much more rigorous degree than a bachelor of science. I do my plant breeding as an artist, and not as a scientist. With all that said, here's my contribution to the topic of this thread:
Permaculture is the art of re-integrating humans into nature.
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Joseph Lofthouse wrote:
I was a research scientist trained in a rigorous science (chemistry) . The laws of chemistry and physics are the same everywhere and every-time. With that bias I am skeptical of claims that permaculture is a science... Industrial agriculture qualifies as a science in my mind, because soil samples are taken to a lab, and absorption spectrometry is done on the samples, and so many pounds of boron, or other elements are added to the fields... I don't see that happening in permaculture.
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Cassie Langstraat wrote:If you could only say ONE sentence to non permies about permaculture, to try to make them understand the importance of it, what would it be?
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wayne stephen wrote:The one who coined the term defined it as :
"Permaculture is the conscious design and maintenence of agriculturally productive ecosystems which have the diversity , stability , and resilience of natural ecosystems." - Bill Mollison
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