A Worldwide Tour of (Almost) Permaculture

Urban Farm DB summary

A book review of Sustainable [R]Evolution, edited by Juliana Birnbaum and Louis Fox, a survey of permaculture (and permaculture-like) projects and communities around the world. Multiple contributors provide short profiles of ecovillages, urban agriculture projects, farms, and teaching centers, interspersed with writing on permaculture design principles. The review notes permaculture was coined as a word and design system by Australians Bill Mollison and David Holmgren in the 1970s, describes Mollison's Permaculture: A Designer's Manual as the seminal work on its elements and values, and characterizes permaculture as an inherently personal form of gardening tailored to a property's specific microclimate, topography, and use patterns.