Plenary Session addressing Students of Sustainability Conference, Flinders University Adelaide 14th July 2003.
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Plenary Session addressing Students of Sustainability Conference, Flinders University Adelaide 14th July 2003.
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In April 2012 I penned an essay, Permaculture Pocket Knives, to explore the issue but it sat unpublished until now. I offer it here as providing an insight into permaculture as a social sub-culture that stands in contrast to many of the dysfunctional normalities that characterise modern living in an affluent society.
From a permaculture perspective, bees can be beneficially added to any system, improving pollination of crops, yielding storable sugars, pollen, beeswax, and other minor yields, all without detracting from any other yield or use in the system. The full text of this article discusses the use case and usage of apiculture in a permaculture setting
Vale Errol Mutch. I remember Errol as one of those rare “salt of the earth” natural environmentalists, who charted his own path in working with nature though the difficult decades when such ideas were rare and ignored, to then find a collegiate network of like minded people through the biodynamic, organic and permaculture networks, and finally to become a wise elder inspiring children and adults to find their own path in working with nature.
Disillusioned social and political activists are just starting to recognise permaculture as a potentially effective pathway for social change as 20th century style mass movements seem to have lost their potency.
~ David Holmgren, Permaculture Co-originator
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