http://zone5.org/2009/02/powerdown-toolkit-3-its-all-connected/ ...on the edge between Nature and Culture Thu, 03 May 2012 05:36:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://zone5.org/2009/02/powerdown-toolkit-3-its-all-connected/comment-page-1/#comment-37864 Mark Fisher Sun, 01 Mar 2009 10:01:53 +0000 http://zone5.org/?p=408#comment-37864 <p>A personal plea, Graham. Sustainable development is but an anthropocentric view of human survival. Permaculture at least avows that all species have a right to existence. The Zone 5 of landscape design is a recognition of this, the location of a self-perpetuating, naturally rich ecological system being both an inspiration for our cultivated ecology, but also an essential sanctuary for wild nature in the face of an ever advancing and dominating civilisation. Lose sight of this, and we lose sight of why permaculture is an important element in human understanding. Moreover, this whole systems approach is missing from so many fashions of the moment, such as Transition Towns and the constantly re-inventing organic farming.</p> A personal plea, Graham. Sustainable development is but an anthropocentric view of human survival. Permaculture at least avows that all species have a right to existence. The Zone 5 of landscape design is a recognition of this, the location of a self-perpetuating, naturally rich ecological system being both an inspiration for our cultivated ecology, but also an essential sanctuary for wild nature in the face of an ever advancing and dominating civilisation. Lose sight of this, and we lose sight of why permaculture is an important element in human understanding. Moreover, this whole systems approach is missing from so many fashions of the moment, such as Transition Towns and the constantly re-inventing organic farming.

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