permaculture

(noun)

Any system of sustainable agriculture that renews natural resources and enriches local ecosystems.

Related Terms

  • sedentary
  • egalitarian
  • potlatch
  • animism

Examples of permaculture in the following topics:

  • Agricultural Settlements and Chiefdoms

    • The natives controlled fire on a regional scale to create a low-intensity fire ecology which prevented larger, catastrophic fires and sustained a low-density agriculture in loose rotation—a sort of "wild" permaculture.
  • Pacific Coast Culture

    • This is what is known as permaculture, or any system of sustainable agriculture that renews natural resources and enriches local ecosystems.
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