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Permaculture is a sustainability buzzword, but many people wonder what it actually means and why it is relevant. Originally coined by combining the words permanent and agriculture, permaculture has evolved into an optimistic approach connecting all the systems of human life: gardening, housing, transportation, energy, and how we structure our communities.
The Permaculture Promise explains in simple terms why permaculture may be the key to unlocking a livable future on our planet. Author Jono Neiger asserts that humans can thrive while simultaneously making Earth healthier and not destroying it. The book shows 22 ways that permaculture can create a better future for all living things. Profiles of people and communities including an urban dweller who tore up her driveway to create a vegetable garden and a California housing development that dedicates a third of its land to parks, orchards, and gardens will inspire you to...

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Contents Foreword Like many people I came to permaculture via a circuitous - photo 1
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Foreword

Like many people, I came to permaculture via a circuitous route. In the early 1990s, my wife and I bought a house tucked into five wooded acres in the Cascade foothills east of Seattle. This being my first adult adventure in rural living, I spent long and happy hours in the public library paging through and dreaming over books on homesteading skills and country living. One of those books, a thick, black one, grabbed my attention. It had the word permaculture in the title, and I had no idea what that word meant. I pulled it off the shelf and browsed the table of contents. The subjects leapt out at me design, natures patterns, climate, trees, water, soils, earthworks, economics, community.

These were all topics I had been fascinated with my whole life, but I never saw how they fit together. I just thought I had a weirdly eclectic collection of interests. Wonderfully, permaculture assembled and related them in a way that made sense of my life and of the larger world. Those early permaculture books showed how all these seemingly disparate disciplines connect, mingle, synergize, and tie into an organic whole. The book you hold in your hands does this, too, but in a very different and much deeper way.

The first permaculture books were mostly theory, simply because there was so little permaculture actually on the ground and functioning. But now, permaculture landscapes can be found in more than 150 countries. North America abounds with dozens of mature, beautiful, and ecologically resilient examples of permaculture, and thousands of younger sites and permaculture-related businesses, schools, and nonprofits are popping up everywhere. Jono Neiger has explored many of them, designs them, and has built and lived in several of them, including his present home, Hickory Gardens, in Massachusetts.

This book is a bountiful harvest of the techniques, ideas, strategies, lessons, and wisdom embodied in the very best of permaculture design as practiced today. And although its main focus, like that of permaculture, is on working in ecologically sound ways with the landscape, in these pages you will also learn how permaculture can help meet every human and ecological need: food, water, shelter, energy, community, financial resources, health, and all the rest. Permaculture has burst out of the garden and into the community; The Permaculture Promise shows how that has been done and how you can apply permaculture almost everywhere, too.

Jono is uniquely suited to tell this important and richly faceted story. I met Jono at the very beginning of my permaculture career. He was the land steward and permaculture program director at Lost Valley Educational Center in Dexter, Oregon. I learned much from watching Jonos careful and sensitive guidance, care, and hard work heal Lost Valleys badly damaged, brutally clearcut 80-acre site. Now on the faculty at the Conway School and a principal in the firm Regenerative Design Group, Jono shares his wisdom with students and design clients. Im delighted to see this book, as it brings me up to date on what Jono has learned and done in the years since he left the West Coast, and because it fills an important niche in the permaculture canon.

The Permaculture Promise does that in several important ways. Its chock-full of examples of permaculture used in landscape design, water conservation, waste treatment, carbon sequestering, community, and economics. The book also gives us clear, well-articulated definitions, concepts, and methods for applying the principles of permaculture, amply illustrated with dozens of captivating images. And best of all, it glows with an optimistic, can-do vision for our future. We are, as Jono writes, in an ecological and social mess, but we have powerful tools for fixing it. Many of them are covered in the pages that follow.

But this book is far more than an instruction manual. The Permaculture Promise is exactly that: a declaration, filled with living proof, of permacultures present successes and barely tapped potential for building a resilient, abundance-filled culture that is a joy to live in.

Toby Hemenway,

author of Gaias Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture and The Permaculture City

Introduction Heres the tough news We live in a time of dramatic change and - photo 3
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Heres the tough news: We live in a time of dramatic change and uncertainty. As human society reaches out to dominate every corner of the planet, ecosystems are fraying and natural resources are being consumed at an alarming rate. Climate instability and peak oil (the point at which the rate of global oil extraction peaks, thereafter dropping into decline) are inescapable realities. And all the while, the worlds population continues to grow.

With such changes happening all around us,its easy to feel like the world is out of control. Its easy to become cynical or to feel powerless. After all, each of us is just one person, a tiny speck in the seething mass of seven billion people on this planet. What could we, in our small way, ever hope to do to make things better?

The truth is, the only reality we can affect is our own the immediate life we live each day. And for us, as humans, through all the great arc of our time on this planet, reality has been the sum of our relationships: to each other, to the world around us, and to that ineffable spark of life that innervates each of us. The human need for relationships rises in us and feeds us, physically, emotionally, and spiritually.

Yet modern life has a way of eating away at the relationships that support us. As we become more interconnected in the digital world, we seem to lose connections in the physical world; our social and emotional bonds become more fragmented, and we lose touch with our neighbors and community. As we move away from the land, we neglect the ecological and agricultural systems that feed and shelter us, and those systems become more tenuous. As we begin to take for granted the energy, transportation, and distribution networks that support us, our understanding of these systems diminishes, and we begin to lose our sense of place as citizens and caretakers of a global world.

In this time of disconnect of peak oil, climate chaos, population explosion, energy crisis, water shortages, mass extinctions, societal disruption many people are wondering how to get from where we are to where we need to be in order to survive and thrive on this planet. The answer, I think, lies in building relationships. If we can build or rebuild connections to each other, to the land, and to the systems that support us, we can, perhaps, contribute to a growing worldwide web of interrelationships. That network, in turn, can become the foundation for a self-sustaining community that interweaves human endeavor with natural systems to support a resilient, prosperous future for all.

Thats what this book is meant to provide: a perspective for navigating our future with grace and a long-term view, including some practical ideas for re-skilling, reconnecting, reengaging, and ultimately creating a more livable world for us all.

That is, in essence, the promise of permaculture.

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