Permaculture was introduced by a couple of radically-minded Australians, in the 1970s, as an answer to Peak Oil (also). Today it is spread all over the world. Penny Livingston-Stark of the Regenerative Design Institute in Bolinas, California, explains the movement that looks to the natural world for answers to human problems.

Further Reading:

• Two Years to Turn Rock Hard Land into Food Forest
• Permaculture News: The Challenge of Tanzania
• Permaculture Solutions to the Challenge of Tanzania