Permaculture design is the integration of land, resources, people, and the environment. It creates a closed-loop system, beneficial to the environment and people, in which all the elements in the system are provided for and the waste used. For example, a garden produces food, the food waste makes compost to provide fertility, and people eat while the garden’s fertility needs are met. Only closed-loop systems like this are truly sustainable. Sustainability is a state that provides more energy than it consumes. The elements constantly improve but don’t require constant inputs from elsewhere. The closed-loop arrangement provides for its own needs and benefits the environments. When you think through design, how plants and animals interact, you realize that everything we need we have around us.
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