Permaculture is more than just the latest buzzword it offers positive solutions for many of
the environmental and social challenges confronting us. And nowhere are those remedies more
needed and desired than in our cities. Permaculturists have learned that the same nature-based
approach that works so beautifully for growing food--connecting the pieces of the landscape
together in harmonious ways--applies perfectly to many of our other needs. This book shows in
the stories of the innovators who are doing it as well as in how-to instructions how
permaculture design can help town dwellers solve the challenges of meeting our needs for food
water shelter energy community and livelihood in sustainable resilient ways.
