As seen on the BBC 2 TV Series, It's Not Easy Being Green
(attracting over 3 million viewers), the critically acclaimed and
definitive permaculture design book, reprinted due to popular demand
"You've probably never thought of yourself as the ultimate
'eco-warrior', but this book will make you think again... essential
reading." Kitchen Gardener
This is the book which inspired Brigit Strawbridge (It's Not Easy Being
Green, BBC2) to attended her first permaculture design course with
Patrick Whitefield, and to set her and her family off on a voyage of
discovery which is helping to introduce and inspire others to explore
permaculture.
Already hailed in the UK, Europe and America as definitive, The Earth
Care Manual offers an inspirational yet practical vision of a
sustainable future invaluable to those new to the subject as well as to
the experienced practitioner.
Permaculture started in the 1970s as a sustainable alternative to modern
industrial agriculture, taking its inspiration from natural ecosystems.
It placed an emphasis on gardening but since then, expanding on its
principles, it now includes many other aspects, from building and
community design to energy use. It is an interconnecting framework which
links a diversity of green ideas. Its aims are a low input, high output
efficient use of resources - and genuine sustainability.
The Earth Care Manual gives a vision of a sustainable future and the
practical steps we can take towards it, both large and small, urban and
rural. The book defines permaculture and places it in the context of the
green movement.
Written by Patrick Whitefield, one of Europe's foremost teachers and
practitioners of temperate permaculture, it explains in depth how to
apply permaculture to any situation, from the smallest of buildings or
apartments, to houses, gardens, orchards, farms and woodlands. It covers
subjects vital to sustainability including food, energy, water,
microclimate and shelter.
