"Permaculture. A copyright word, owned as a common copyright by the Permaculture Institutes & their graduates. Derived from ‘Permanent’ and ‘Culture’, as follows:

    Permanent: From the Latin permanens, to remain to the end, to persist throughout (per = through, manere = to continue)

    Culture: From the Latin cultura - cultivation of land, or the intellect. Now generalized to mean all those habits, beliefs, or activities than sustain human    societies.

    Thus, Permaculture is the study of the design of those sustainable or enduring systems that support human society, both agricultural & intellectual, traditional & scientific, architectural, financial & legal. It is the study of integrated systems, for the purpose of better design & application of such systems"
  -Bill Mollison

  Permaculture.net

"Permaculture Design is not the rain, the roof, or the garden. Permaculture Design is the connections between these things.  Permaculture brings cohesion where there was once isolation."

"The practice of designing sustainable human habitats by following nature's patterns."
  -Organic Gardening

"Permaculture is a philosophy of working with, rather than against nature; of protracted & thoughtful observation rather than protracted & thoughtless action; of looking at systems in all their functions rather than asking only one yield of them & of allowing systems to demonstrate their own evolutions."
  -Bill Mollison

Meet other local people who are interested in Permaculture, urban sustainability and related issues. Meetups are typically held on the third Thursday of every month at 7:00 pm.

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  • Sunday at 2:00 PM, 4 Permies attended

    Sharing Farm - Regular Permaculture Meetup

    They rated it 5.00 5.003 (3 ratings) and uploaded 6 photos

    I learnt about hugels which I had now known about. It was, oddly, fun weilding a shovel and spade again after so long.

    Christine

    We finished creating the gardens on Perennial Lane, with a raised bed and a curved burm nicknamed the hugelwhale. ...

    Jill

  • February 9 at 7:30 PM, 13 Permies attended

    Permaculture Strategies for 2012

    They rated it 5.00 5.001 (1 ratings)

    Gregoire Lamoureux has been teaching & working with Permaculture for over 20 years in many parts of the country. He will share his experience of implementing a... Learn more
  • February 1 at 6:30 PM, 20 Permies attended

    To Make a Farm - Inspiring movie about young Canadian farmers

    They rated it 5.00 5.001 (1 ratings)

    To Make a Farm will be screened at UBC on Feb 1. For more information: http://www.landfood.ubc.ca/events/february-film-screening-make-farm I would highly recommend this... Learn more
  • January 19 at 7:00 PM, 8 Permies attended

    Permaculture Vancouver Monthly Meeting

    They rated it 5.00 5.002 (2 ratings) and uploaded 6 photos

    Met some interesting people, learned some new things and came away with some topics to research. ...

    Colin Angel

    We were working on David Holmgren's Principle # 1: Observe and interact. ...

    Jill

  • January 8 at 2:00 PM, 7 Permies attended

    Sharing Farm - Regular Permaculture Meetup

    They rated it 5.00 5.002 (2 ratings)

    Theme: First Principle of Permaculture: Observation Activities: building a hugelkultur using a recently fallen over apple tree

    bruno

    Great winter turn up everyone! The light rain was very light, and it was beautiful out at Terra Nova!!

    Jill

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