Designers, teachers and practitioners who developed or spread permaculture, the design approach that arranges farms, gardens and settlements on the patterns of natural ecosystems. A person belongs here when the cited article names them as a co-originator, teacher or practitioner of permaculture, or of the related regenerative land design movements that grew from it. The group covers the founders who named and wrote down the system in the 1970s, and the community developers and teachers who carried it to other countries.
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Bill Mollison (Wikipedia)
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In 1981, he was awarded the Right Livelihood Award "for developing and promoting the theory and practice of permaculture".
David Holmgren (Wikipedia)
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He is best known as one of the co-originators of the permaculture concept with Bill Mollison.
Paul Yeboah, Wikipedia
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Paul Yeboah (1970-2021) was an educator, farmer, permaculturist, community developer, and social entrepreneur.
Wikipedia: Allan Savory
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He is the President Emeritus and co-founder of the Savory Institute. He originated holistic management, a systems thinking approach to managing resources, and the origin story his professional life's work is told in the memoir UnSavory: African Stories of Wildlife, War and the Birth of Holistic Management.
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