The Power of Permaculture Principles

Permaculture offers principles that are part of a holistic framework and a set of
thinking tools that allow us to creatively re-design our environment and our behaviour
in an unravelling world and, like a living system, it has evolved and grown. We can
demonstrate that these tried and tested principles work, bringing us back to a unity
with nature and community.

In this collaborative book, Wilf Richards, plus a collective of over 40 experienced permaculture teachers and elders from across Britain and beyond, explore the wealth of permaculture principles to emerge over the last few decades, not just from Holmgren and Mollison but from many many other sources too, attempting to acknowledge all of the teachers that have contributed to them over time. Together they share a history of each principle, its evolution, and tell stories of how they are now being used, understood and applied.

Permaculture principles have evolved from Indigenous knowledge, observations of
nature’s cycles, and the living, teaching and practice of permaculture over the past 50
years in many different climates and cultures. They can be applied to our personal,
economic, social and political lives. The ethical foundation of permaculture guides us
to use these design tools for the betterment of the land, our wild relatives, and
human culture.

Full of stories and case studies, The Power of Permaculture Principles will enable you
to enrich your knowledge of permaculture and how to apply it to your own life.

The book explores definitions of principles, why they emerged in the first place, the use of principles in the design processes and even how they were used to help write the book. It brings the principles up to date on their convoluted journey and adds in their complexities and cautions too. They are a living evolving system that we are all contributing to as we practice and move towards a more sustainable regenerative life.