Even on a damp and overcast morning, Angelica Papio's garden is a pretty place, a wonderland of effervescent flowers and foliage. And yet nothing in this small space gets to just sit around looking ...

In my ongoing quest to learn everything I can about gardening as part of our Million Gardens Movement, I recently encountered a fascinating thing: urban permaculture. Australian academics Bill ...

It's hard to imagine now, driving past the newly minted malls and home- improvement centers on the Nimitz, but Fremont was once one of the jewels of the California orchard and nursery industry, ...

In 1978, Australian ecologists David Holmgren and Bill Mollison coined the concept of permaculture as a systematic method for the first time. For Mollison, "permaculture is the philosophy of working ...

That, in a nutshell, is Permaculture. The Permaculture philosophy was developed in the 1970s by Bill Mollison, a biologist and environmental psychologist from the University of Tasmania, Australia, ...

Cyclical Systems: "Permaculture is...an ecological design system for the creation of regenerative human habitats," says Chuck Marsh, co-founder of Earthaven. In her Southern opus Gone With the Wind, ...

Stephanie Syson came to know the principles of permaculture “back in a previous life,” while working as a river guide in Latin America. However, the term — derived from the words “permanent” and ...

I can still remember my first encounter with the term “permaculture.” It was a Plowboy interview with Bill Mollison in MOTHER EARTH NEWS in 1980. I remember well how the ideas resonated with me, and I ...

Social fragmentation and economic divides have fractured the fabric of urban environments. In this context, ecovillages emerge as influential remedies to societal and ecological crises, microcosms ...