26 Community
The Permaculture Principle “Integrate Rather then Segregate” makes a not so subtle allusion to community. The power of people working together towards a common goal is one of the most potent tools that we have, and it’s a tool which enables the physical and non-physical structures of a Permaculture system to be put into place. Watch the video below to get a perspective on how Permaculture can build and improve communities.
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Additional Resources
Browse the resources down below to learn more about community. There are two different threads here. One is about changing the existing community you already live in to one which is embedded with Permaculture principles. The other is about building community from the ground up. Either way, there are many ways to use Permaculture design to assist that process.
- VillageLab
- ReInhabiting the Village | Co-Creating Our Future
- NuMundo- Finding Communities Around the World
- Pathways to Resilience: Permaculture and Prisoner Re-entry
- Alternative Money Systems
- Biology Based Resilient Cities
- Building an Intentional Community
- Global Ecovillage Network
- Patterns to Revitalize Your Neighborhood by Andrew Millison
- Lessons in Village Design by Peter Bane
- Building Community through Permaculture
- Permaculture International: Resilient Community Design
- Planting Justice
Podcasts
- Earth Repair Radio: Pandora Thomas on Building the Garden of Social Relationships
- Social Permaculture. Creating a Diversity of Functional Connections Between People and Their Skills
Video
- The Power of Community – How Cuba Survived Peak Oil
- Reclaiming the Public Commons: Mark Lakeman
- Mark Lakeman on Urban Permaculture
