{"id":13533,"date":"2015-10-19T06:18:39","date_gmt":"2015-10-19T11:18:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=13533"},"modified":"2015-10-19T06:18:39","modified_gmt":"2015-10-19T11:18:39","slug":"toby-hemenway-scaling-permaculture-principles-to-other-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=13533","title":{"rendered":"Toby Hemenway: Scaling Permaculture Principles To Other Systems"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Toby Hemenway: Scaling Permaculture Principles To Other Systems<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Offers promise for energy, social & economic systems<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

When Chris was out for our event with\u00a0Robb Wolf<\/a>\u00a0in northern California last month, we paid a visit to\u00a0Singing Frogs Farm<\/a>\u00a0along with a group of Peak Prosperity members. Adding to the outing’s embarrassment of riches, permaculture expert Toby Hemenway joined in.<\/p>\n

We saw much that day that inspired us about the regenerative and productive impact humans can have on their farmland when using wise soil management techniques and leveraging natural systems.<\/p>\n

Now, of course, not everyone has an 8-acre farm in the country to apply these practices to. Does that mean that permaculture is only relevant to rural farmers?<\/p>\n

Not all all, says Hemenway. He has just released a new book,\u00a0The\u00a0Permaculture\u00a0City: Regenerative Design for Urban, Suburban, and Town Resilience<\/a>\u00a0which explains how individuals, as well as society as a whole, can apply the same principles underlying permaculture to improve most if not all of the systems our way of life depends on:<\/p>\n

There have been advances on several fronts, and one is that we are starting to get good data now. There were a lot of claims made in permaculture that were based on more theory in the early days, 20, 25 years ago. We thought this should work it is a great idea and people would sometimes talk as if it had worked when we really didn\u2019t have good data. Now we know a lot more about what does work. We have toned down some of the rhetoric and are trying to be more fact based.<\/p>\n

But another one of the huge developments is the big understanding that what we have learned in the garden:\u00a0When you design ecologically sound systems for food you learn the same principals and the same guidelines for designing pretty much anything else using ‘all systems’ thinking<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Toby Hemenway: Scaling Permaculture Principles To Other Systems Offers promise for energy, social & economic systems When Chris was out for our event with\u00a0Robb Wolf\u00a0in northern California last month, we paid a visit to\u00a0Singing Frogs Farm\u00a0along with a group of Peak Prosperity members. Adding to the outing’s embarrassment of riches, permaculture expert Toby Hemenway joined […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[9958,2218,622,5672,9959],"class_list":["post-13533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-chris-martens","tag-peak-prosperity","tag-permaculture","tag-singing-frogs-farm","tag-toby-hemenway"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13534,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13533\/revisions\/13534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}