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Sustainability Through Permaculture Awareness and Education
Type of Presentation
Poster Session (45 minutes)
Session Abstract
Permaculture aims to rectify society's disconnect with nature by utilizing holistic ethics and principles for sustainability. Diversity in disciplines, strategies, and techniques are considered in approaching environmental issues and concerns.
Target Audience
Individuals who believe humans and nature are interconnected in ways that adhere to three permaculture ethics: caring for Earth, caring for people, and reinvesting the surplus that this care will create.
Learning Outcomes
Learners will become familiar with permaculture ethics and the twelve permaculture principles for ecological design. They will be able to walk away with a greater sense of interconnectedness as it relates to their individual context within the environment.
Session Description
The need for sustainability is greater, now, than at any other point in modern history. People recognize we cannot continue depleting our natural resources without causing negative effects to our environment. Increasing permaculture awareness through education, implementation, and adaptation may be the key to turning our environment around and creating one that works with society - not against it. The aim of permaculture is to design ecologically sound, economically prosperous human communities and is guided by a set of ethics: caring for Earth, caring for people, and reinvesting the surplus that this care will create. From these ethics stem a set of design guidelines or principles for ecological designs: Observe; Connect; Catch and store energy; Multi-functional elements; Multi-supportive elements; Least change for greatest effect; Intensive systems; Optimize edge; Collaborate with succession; Use biological and renewable resources; Turn problems into solutions; and Get a yield.
Efforts are made to try to schedule sessions on the day preferred by the Primary Presenter, though this cannot be guaranteed. Please check your preference.
No preference
Primary Presenter
Mary Christine Millar, Michigan State University Neuroscience Program
Work Title
Undergraduate Secretary