Season 1 (1994)

The Function of Design
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January 1, 1994

This is an opening lecture. The principles of functional design for sustainability are unique to Permaculture design.

Fundamentals Of Pattern
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January 8, 1994

From a singular event all other events are set in motion in recognizable and predictable patterns This pattern recognition is the ...Read more

Pattern Application
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January 15, 1994

Efficiency of energy, resources, and time, and the creation of highly productive systems are the results of good Permaculture desi...Read more

Home Gardening Part 1
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January 22, 1994

Find out why it is so important to grow your own food and how to install the easiest, and highly productive, home food propagation...Read more

Home Gardening Part 2
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January 29, 1994

Find out why it is so important to grow your own food and how to install the easiest, and highly productive, home food propagation...Read more

Trees 1
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February 5, 1994

The tree is life - profound, magnificent, and mysterious. To learn what little we can know of trees is sufficient to leave one awestruck and reverent.

Trees 2
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February 12, 1994

Why is a tree green? Where does a tree end or begin? Why have all human societies destroyed the tree? A Mollison rave.

Farmer's Trees
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February 19, 1994

These are very specific trees which are used around the world for their ability to improve soils. They are invaluable in range fo...Read more

Forests And Woodlands
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February 26, 1994

Methods to plant, sustain, and best utilize woodland and wood for fuel, forage, windbreak and construction.

Pasture And Range Restoration
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March 5, 1994

What is cultura promiscua? To maintain functional bio-diversity is a basic tenet of Permaculture. Severely degraded land can be ea...Read more

Soil Conditioning
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March 12, 1994

... a continuation of #10. Two main techniques: the chisel-plow, and the wonders of worms and how to cultivate them. The patterns ...Read more

Water
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March 19, 1994

...a continuation of the Trees episode. Potable water - where does it come from? How did it get there? What has become of it? What...Read more

Aquaculture
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March 26, 1994

Once one has learned to harvest water, then the real fun begins with production of the myriad of foods and marketable commodities ...Read more

Planting In Drylands
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April 2, 1994

There are a multitude of ways to harvest, conserve, and utilize water. These strategies apply to coastal regions or islands with w...Read more

Drylands 1
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April 9, 1994

As desert is rapidly claiming vast areas of our planet, millions are on the verge of starvation. Yet, crops which occur naturally ...Read more

Drylands 2
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April 16, 1994

... continuation of Drylands 1. Never, never irrigate the desert. The devastation caused by irrigation of arid land is irreparable...Read more

Working at Ground Level
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April 23, 1994

A documentary on the permaculture work done in Ecuador by the Rainforest Information Center, Centro de Investigatión de los Bosques Tropicales.