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What is Permaculture?
Bill Mollison, an Australian ecologist and co-founder of Permaculture defined Permaculture as “a design system for creating sustainable human environments.” It is a living system that creates a richer harmony between human dwellings, food production, animals and plants, with zero waste.
In the 1980’s Swami Vishnudevananda set the Sivananda Ashrams on the path of sustainability. He saw the dangers of a social infra-structure of energy, agriculture, transportation, and waste disposal cut off from sustainability and local control. He used to joke about what would happen to New York, if the electricity, the water, or the sewage system stopped working. He fitted his house with solar panels, and passive solar heating; installed green houses and found ways to use the water power of the local stream. He built a log house and a pyramid from the logs in the forest. In 1979 he sent me for a weekend intensive with Bill Mollison. – Srinivasan (Ashram director) |
