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A New Permatecture Toolbox! (From Nikos A. Salingaros)
by Øyvind Holmstad The goal of permaculture is to reunite man with nature and man with man through design systems,…
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The Timeless Way of Building
by Øyvind Holmstad This timeless book from Christopher Alexander was released back in the seventies, and it’s just as much…
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Modernism & Disconnection from Life
by Øyvind Holmstad Norway is said to be a social democratic country, which means a 50 – 50 percent mixture…
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Village Towns
Vandana Shiva, an internationally recognized Indian activist and philosopher, explains that planning for the human being rather than the automobile…
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Book Review: Unplanning – Livable Cities and Political Choices
In this book Charles Siegel explains the history of city planning, where we are now, and most importantly, where we…
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Life and the Geometry of the Environment
Originally published by the Athens Dialogues E-Journal, Harvard University’s Center for Hellenic Studies, November 2010. Republished with permission of the…
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Integrated Design
Photo © Craig Mackintosh Could it be useful sometimes to replace the name permaculture with something else, because some people…
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Let’s Make Our World Whole!
Christopher Alexander I’m not a scholarly man and I have no vision to come up with any new theories, what…
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The Holistic Flower
I’ve found a wonderful flower; I discovered it not long ago. Still, it’s not so much what I know about…
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Permaculture and the Western Syndrome
For tens of thousands of years intact peoples from around the world have been intricately woven into the fabric of…
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Society
Permaculture and Peace – Part 3
In part 1 of this article series we looked at the similarities between peace and permaculture as holistic practices which can…
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