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 ...

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, ...

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, ...

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 ...