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Welcome to the Knowledgebase

Find our about the ethics, principles, design tools and origins of permaculture!

What is permaculture?

Permaculture is a philosophy of working with, rather than against nature. It encourages a connected approach.

Permaculture ethics and design principles can be applied to every area of your life. Permaculture offers ways we can sustain human activities for many generations to come, in harmony with nature.

Ethics

Principles

Design

Practical Solutions

Discover over 180 practical permaculture solutions which can be applied to every part of your life!

Built environment

The built environment is a material, spatial and cultural product of human labour that combines physical elements and energy to create spaces for living, working and playing.

Culture and education

The diversity of human culture is remarkable and every culture has its own unique patterns of internal thinking and external behaviours.

Finance and economics

Many environmentalists are suspicious of the whole idea of 'economics', seeing free market capitalism as a key cause of many of current environmental problems.

Health and well-being

When we think of health and well-being, it is common to immediately think of hospitals, doctors and specialists.

Land and nature stewardship

Although permaculture is now defined as 'permanent culture', incorporating all areas of human life, it was originally defined as 'permanent agriculture', and was firmly focused on land stewardship and living in harmony with nature.

Land tenure and community governance

Land tenure and community governance is an aspect of permaculture which is vitally important, but generally remains unseen. For this reason it is often referred to as part of 'invisible structures'.

Tools and technology

To shape our world, humans have always used tools. Today, the range of possibilities is vast, from screwdrivers to tractors to the world wide web.