TY - JOUR AU - Glore, Angela Gordon PY - 2015/05/27 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - A Worldwide Tour of (Almost) Permaculture JF - Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development JA - J. Agric. Food Syst. Community Dev. VL - 5 IS - 3 SE - Review DO - 10.5304/jafscd.2015.053.007 UR - https://www.foodsystemsjournal.org/index.php/fsj/article/view/352 SP - 149-151 AB - <p><em>First paragraphs:</em></p><em>Sustainable [R]Evolution, </em><span>edited by Juliana Birnbaum and Louis Fox, is a survey of permaculture (and permaculture-like) projects and communities throughout the world. Multiple authors have contributed short profiles of ecovillages, urban agriculture projects, farms, and teaching centers, interspersed with writings on permaculture design principles.</span><p>Permaculture was coined—as a word and a design system—by Australians Bill Mollison and David Holmgren in the 1970s as a type of ecologically based permanent agriculture. Mollison's <em>Permaculture: A Designer's Manual </em>stands as the seminal work describing the elements of and values embedded in permaculture. It is an inherently personal form of gardening, tailored to a property's specific microclimates, topography, and use patterns....</p> ER -