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These videos are documents from two design courses taught by Bill Mollison at the Fossil Rim Wildlife Center in Glen Rose Texas in 1994 and 1995. They are a definitive selection from our original 16 part series. These tapes bear many viewings and will benefit anyone who wants to learn how to help regenerate the earth - from back yard to bio-region. Teachers of permaculture have found these tapes to be a valuable coaching tool - edited to one hour.
This is an opening lecture. The principles of functional design for sustainability are unique to Permaculture design.
Find the rest of the 16-lecture series at networkearth.org
http://www.networkearth.org/perma/culture.html
Episodes Season Season 1 · 0/17 0/17 watched · 1994
S01E01 The Function of Design 1994-01-01
This is an opening lecture. The principles of functional design for sustainability are unique to Permaculture design. more
S01E02 Fundamentals Of Pattern 1994-01-08
From a singular event all other events are set in motion in recognizable and predictable patterns This pattern recognition is the core of design in Permaculture. more
S01E03 Pattern Application 1994-01-15
Efficiency of energy, resources, and time, and the creation of highly productive systems are the results of good Permaculture design. The methods are obvious once we have become co-creative with the forces of nature. more
S01E04 Home Gardening Part 1 1994-01-22
Find out why it is so important to grow your own food and how to install the easiest, and highly productive, home food propagation systems; mulch garden, potato box, herb's spiral, and more. You don't need much space. These are basic Permacultural techniques. more
S01E05 Home Gardening Part 2 1994-01-29
Find out why it is so important to grow your own food and how to install the easiest, and highly productive, home food propagation systems; mulch garden, potato box, herb's spiral, and more. You don't need much space. These are basic Permacultural techniques. more
S01E06 Trees 1 1994-02-05
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. more
S01E07 Trees 2 1994-02-12
Why is a tree green? Where does a tree end or begin? Why have all human societies destroyed the tree? A Mollison rave. more
S01E08 Farmer's Trees 1994-02-19
These are very specific trees which are used around the world for their ability to improve
soils. They are invaluable in range for livestock, as well as in fields under cultivation. more
S01E09 Forests And Woodlands 1994-02-26
Methods to plant, sustain, and best utilize woodland and wood for fuel, forage, windbreak and construction. more
S01E10 Pasture And Range Restoration 1994-03-05
What is cultura promiscua? To maintain functional bio-diversity is a basic tenet of Permaculture. Severely degraded land can be easily restored to highly productive land by using good observation techniques, plants and animals in succession, and common sense. more
S01E11 Soil Conditioning 1994-03-12
... a continuation of #10. Two main techniques: the chisel-plow, and the wonders of worms and how to cultivate them. The patterns described in these two videos can be replicated in any type of Permaculture system, and scaled to any size. more
S01E12 Water 1994-03-19
...a continuation of the Trees episode. Potable water - where does it come from? How did it get there? What has become of it? What we can do to ensure that we will have safe water to drink, and to conserve as much of this precious material as possible. more
S01E13 Aquaculture 1994-03-26
Once one has learned to harvest water, then the real fun begins with production of the myriad of foods and marketable commodities hosted by ponds and other water-rich environments. more
S01E14 Planting In Drylands 1994-04-02
There are a multitude of ways to harvest, conserve, and utilize water. These strategies apply to coastal regions or islands with with zero precipitation, arid lands, as well as to areas with plentiful seasonal rainfall. more
S01E15 Drylands 1 1994-04-09
As desert is rapidly claiming vast areas of our planet, millions are on the verge of starvation. Yet, crops which occur naturally in arid land can provide all necessary nutrition for people and animals. The strategies discussed arise from years of observation in the deserts of Australia and from the peoples of Kalahari. more
S01E16 Drylands 2 1994-04-16
... continuation of Drylands 1. Never, never irrigate the desert. The devastation caused by irrigation of arid land is irreparable. But there are alternatives: methods to set up a drought proof system. This is serious Permaculture! more
S01E17 Working at Ground Level 1994-04-23
A documentary on the permaculture work done in Ecuador by the Rainforest Information Center, Centro de Investigatión de los Bosques Tropicales. more 
