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Whether it is a question of survival or long run sustainability, humanity face anyway unprecedented crisis that challenges ideas at the very basis of society life organization. To pick only three crisis, financial credit-debt crisis, global warming climate change and peak oil are expected to bear an explosive situation with huge economic, ecological, social and human losses. We propose to seriously overcome them simply with permaculture, an approach to design a system as a whole. This simple regenerative solution for a complex problem is a hope in time of change, that scale up from individual to community and large territories. "We can solve all world problems in a garden", now. You can do it as well, start permaculture and make your part of the change, just do it !
 * //Civilization is going to end, but is okay//**

The root cause for current world problems is in fact one systemic disorder, a flaw or failure by design to take in consideration flows and interactions (e.g. money, energy, life) among world components (e.g. businesses, plants, people, ecosystems). Very often we simply build a system based on "an infinite growth on limited resources", a logical contradiction in terms, a system living beyond its means and digging its own grave.
 * //Relations is what make atoms a world//**

Global warming is an effect of depleting natural resources and global mismanagement of carbon flow. The flow of carbon continuously released from burning fossil fuels and deforestation is a flaw in our society design so critical that is now threatening global food security and the " [|ecosystem services] upon which human livelihoods depend would not be preserved. [|[13]] ".

Agriculture is a more precise example leaving beyond land means and depleting its fertility. Toby Hemenway explains the extractive nature of traditional and then industrial agriculture is bound by design to be ecologically degenerative. In the large scale, this system is bound by design to end when remaining productive lands are not sufficient anymore to cover people needs. Riots of hunger, in the 21Ist century, in countries such as Morocco and Egypt, remind that remaining fertile lands are coming to an end, especially since pressured for the production of energy.

Energy production and consumption is another example of the mess we've done with energy flows. Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen explains that "thermodynamics demonstrates that natural resources are depleted irrevocably". "Cheap free energy created and has so far sustained this complexity but entropy stands waiting for cheap energy to disappear. Therefore, moving toward a society that is not dependent on fossil fuels is seen as essential to avoiding" economic crisis and social conflicts when non-renewable energy resources are depleted or become unaffordable. For David Holmgren, "the flows of energy production and consumption are insane. Seven years of solar power are consumed everyday in oil." "We'll have a serious energy descent", to learn to live again with a "solar budget".

Economic and financial system is another illustration of how wrongly can be flows of energy, money and debt. Our economic system always require growth to survive, but is totally dependent on limited resources of fossil fuel. This need for growth can be explained by the always inflating money supply and debt that continuously devaluate money, through the current money issuing system. Banks get around limitations, such as fractional reserves with derivatives that externalize the risk and debt from the bank. The massive creation of legally "counterfeited" debt, in 2007 the economy massively been devaluated. With debt crisis in Europe today, this financial power turn into a political power, able to control nations. Money is a very important mean of exchange, but banks creatively takes a tax on the use of money, that all of us pay.

The logic of flows and interactions between energy, food and exchanges is chaotic, and thus inherently hard to take into consideration, but failing to do so, no surprise that we witness all types of unforeseen global consequences, in butterfly effect series. Fortunately, ecology and non-linear mathematics revealed some of the logic behind physical world chaos and life complexity. Hopefully, with permaculture, this logic of complexity is put into design and practice, for the benefit of all.

Permaculture turn the problem of building with complexity and interactions into a solution. Permaculture is a method for building food production and human living systems that are self-sustainable, relocalized and replicable, recycle themselves in a positive spiral of growing fertility. Permaculture extends concepts from agroforestry, agro-ecology and other organic farming, such as polyculture, multi-cropping, companionship, but also integrate knowledge from other areas, such as water harvesting, green building and energy generation. Permaculture designs mimic natural ecosystems and combine elements into their best dynamics where nothing is waste and everything is a resource. By minimizing waste, human labor and energy input, and maximizing final design synergy and positive outcomes, permaculture design result in extremely complex systems that produce a high density of food and materials with minimal input.
 * //Permaculture as the art of building with relations//**

effective to educate people to plan for themselves than to pay "planners" unrelated to people conditions

not effective to pay "planners" unrelated to people conditions, is to educate people to plan for themselves

He suggest that with permaculture we can convert to a horticultural society flat and regenerative.

Permaculture logic of multiplying mutually beneficial relations extend to humans, and to a "better cultivation" of humans, rather than plants, as a solid ground for a future permanent culture. Permaculture aim to free people from "job and money for food, home and energy" logic, and invite then instead to become self-employed producer and self-reliant consumer. Permaculture systems are not only productive with minimal work, but they benefit to our health, social and ecological environment, that we also see as political benefits. This simple approach solves huge economic, ecologic and energetic problems we face today, and is actually doing it all around the world the same instant I am writing these lines and you reading them, "the change" has already started.
 * Save you, and save us, but not the world link you know it**

maximize happiness and well-being through non-consumptive means—sharing work, consuming less, while devoting more time to art, music, family, culture and community

First by designing well, and then observing system evolution, we gain contemplative and celebratory time. In celebration we can incorporate the myths and skills that are important to future generations. In contemplation we find more refined, profound, or subtle insights into good procedures (Fukuoka). To implement and manage a constructed or natural system inevitably leads to a more **revalationary** lifestyle, a more satisfied and contented life, and a sense of one’s place in nature. To become a philosopher is not necessarily to be of benefit to the natural world, but to become a designer or gardener is to directly benefit nature or society, and one will inevitably generate natural ethics and philosophies. To become a good designer is to be in search of an understanding of nature, and to be content with the search itself. It is to design by natural example, becoming aware, taking notes, sitting a long time in one place, watching the wind behave and the trees respond, thrusting your hand into the soil to feel it for moisture (it is always more moist on the shade side of tussock grasses, for example), and becoming sensitive to the processes and sights about you.

reducing consumption does not require individual martyring and a decrease in well-being

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