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\u00a0Image by Local Food Initiative, flickr. Permaculture practitioners manage their gardens or farms in ways inspired by the sustainability and resilience of healthy natural ecosystems.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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An environmental sociologist explains how permaculture offers a path to climate justice<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n
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Big farming is both a victim of climate change and a contributor.\u00a0Droughts, floods<\/a>\u00a0and soil degradation threaten crop yields. But agriculture\u00a0produces<\/a>\u00a0nearly one-quarter of global greenhouse gas emissions.<\/p>\n

A potential antidote to harmful monocultures is a form of community farming invented back in the 1970s: permaculture. Permaculture is not just about farming; it incorporates economic and social principles.<\/p>\n

I am an\u00a0environmental sociologist<\/a>, and I have witnessed permaculture working in two urban farming communities. I study ways that\u00a0environmental justice, global development and social equity<\/a>\u00a0affect climate change.<\/p>\n

Permaculture\u2019s three main tenets \u2013 caring for the Earth, caring for the people and sharing the surplus \u2013 offer a potential path toward climate justice, which is a response to well-researched phenomena that climate change disproportionately harms underprivileged groups in economic, public health and other ways, and solutions to climate change should include adaptation strategies\u00a0designed specifically for underprivileged groups<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I spent time at two communities in the Pacific Northwest and in Cuba during the fieldwork for my book\u00a0\u201cSurviving Collapse.\u201d<\/a>\u00a0I witnessed how the communities worked to cut emissions and adapt to climate change in two ways: with egalitarian social organization and regenerative farming techniques.<\/p>\n

Permaculture was born in Australia<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the 1970s, two Australian naturalists, Bill Mollison and David Holmgren, invented permaculture, a method of growing that considers the natural ecosystem and the community. They wanted to\u00a0change agriculture\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0unsustainable practices, like the heavy use of synthetic fertilizers and pesticides.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Image by Local Food Initiative, flickr. Permaculture practitioners manage their gardens or farms in ways inspired by the sustainability and resilience of healthy natural ecosystems. An environmental sociologist explains how permaculture offers a path to climate justice Big farming is both a victim of climate change and a contributor.\u00a0Droughts, floods\u00a0and soil degradation threaten crop yields. […]<\/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":[4,6,7],"tags":[32292,1218,622,8748,9358],"class_list":["post-60913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-liberty","category-survival-2","tag-christina-ergas","tag-climate-justice","tag-permaculture","tag-permaculture-news","tag-permaculture-research-institute"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60913","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=60913"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60914,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60913\/revisions\/60914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}