Small House Society promotes "Smart Sizing"

The Santa Barbara Permaculture Network brings us informtion about the small house movement, as well as related ways to live gently with the land.

"Permaculture is a design system that reconciles human communities with the ecological imperatives of a living planet."---Ben Haggard

PERMACULTURE: the use of ecology as the basis for designing integrated systems of food production, housing, appropriate technology, and community development. Permaculture is built upon an ethic of caring for the earth and interacting with the environment in mutually beneficial ways.

David Holmgren is best known as the co-originator with Bill Mollison of the Permaculture concept put forth in "Permaculture One" in 1978. Since then he has written several more books, including most recently "Permaculture: Principles & Pathways Beyond Sustainability"

The Union of Concerned Scientists ranks housing third among destructive human enterprises, just after transportation and agriculture. But our housing need not be destructive. Again we can chose! We can chose human scale, enhancing our connections with those we love. We can chose eco-scale, reducing our demand for the kind of energy that is disrupting life now and for future generations.

Shay Salomon is a co-founder of the Small House Society, which she helped establish along with Nigel Valdez, Jay Shafer, and Gregory Paul Johnson

The Small House Society is a cooperatively managed and sustained global organization dedicated to the promotion of tiny houses and small housing solutions that are affordable and ecologically responsible.

"Little House on a Small Planet" by Shay Salomon is now available.

Small House Society
c/o Resources for Life
Postal: P.O. Box 2717, Iowa City, IA 52244-2717 USA
E-Mail: shs @ resourcesforlife.com (do not include spaces)
Internet: www.smallhousesociety.org
Phone: 319.621.4911

CALIFORNIA PERMACULTURE GROUPS:


ccpg serves San Luis Obispo to Santa Barbara,
scpg serves Santa Barbara down through Los Angeles, and
sdpg serves greater San Diego area

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Central Coast Permaculture Guild subscription
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