Permaculture designs integrative systems

Working with nature, its systems and functions to allow them to demonstrate their own evolutions is what permaculture promotes. “It is a system in which the lives of all creatures are combined in a respectful and beneficial way to provide all their needs,” says Gustavo Copelmayer.

Integrative ideas and concepts such as biocybernetics and deep ecology are applied in the design of these systems. In this sense, explains Gustavo Copelmayer, the attention is not only directed towards the individual components, but towards the relationships between these elements and their optimal use for the creation of productive mechanisms.

Permaculture design requires planning for its implementation and maintenance, says Gustavo Copelmayer. This design aims to integrate the ecological, economic and social needs to achieve the self-sustainability of the model.

Permaculture can be conceived as a concept free of ideologies as it opens up both to new knowledge with state-of-the-art technologies to millenary knowledge in conjunction with old and new innovative practical strategies, Gustavo Copelmayer concludes.