Permaculture

[Samwise Ganja]

I want KMO to interview either Bill Molison, David Holmgren or Patrick Whitefield about Permaculture.

Bill Mollison (born 1928 in Tasmania, Australia) is a researcher, author, scientist, teacher, naturalist and has been called the 'father of permaculture', an integrated system of design co-developed with David Holmgren that encompasses not only agriculture, horticulture, architecture and ecology but also economic systems, land access strategies and legal systems for businesses and communities. (wikipedia)

David Holmgren (born 1955) is an ecologist, ecological design engineer and writer. He is perhaps most well known as co-originator of the permaculture concept with Bill Mollison. David Holmgren is a controversial figure. Through the spread of permaculture around the world, his environmental theory has exerted a global influence. (Wikipedia)

English permaculture teacher Patrick Whitefield, author of The Earth Care Manual and Permaculture in a Nutshell (wikipedia: Permaculture)

[cereus]

Yes permaculture is a very interesting topic, and of course organic farming.
In permaculture one seeks to integrate nature and work with nature in stead of against nature. I know that in Germany there are many interesting projects going on, both in farming but also in ordinary house holds. To integrate nature when one builds a new house or when one plans the farm, and use natures own methods to clean both waste and water, and to warm the house. I have seen many great houses built in harmony with nature and would like to live like that my self if plausible. Here in Norway there is many that is interested in this and I know of some projects going on but it is too little to make a deferens to our society. One project is the ecological village outside of Oslo and there is also a great group doing dirt and straw buildings. There are many more projects I don’t know of but the houses built on these principles are far between and expensive to by or build but I think great to live in.