iPermie Section Table of Contents
These links to to the tables of contents listing the chapters for each of the 14 sections. Individual chapters are listed on the heading page for each section.
In 2008 for the first time in human history, the world’s population became more urban than rural. At present 3.6 billion people (of a total of seven billion) live in urban centres1. By 2030 this figure is predicted to increase to almost five billion, with urban growth concentrated in Africa and Asia. — Nyeleni Food Sovereignty Newsletter
Foreword, by Vinay Gupta — On becoming a free citizen of a fair world. The end of oppression and exploitation of other people, nations, and species. iPermie proposes radical change, because exploitation is the norm, and fairness an exception. This book is your travel guide to a better future.
iPermie: The Introduction — Hope. Succession. Empowerment. Praxis. Community. City. Good-life design.
Section 00: Basics — 42 chapters — How to hack a plan for your life with permaculture so that you can experience more beauty, health, happiness, freedom, cooperation, and security — with less work, consumption, conflict, injustice, waste, and danger. A discussion of the basics of permaculture design. Introduces the ethics, principles, strategies, techniques, and tools of permaculture design.
Section 01: Invisible Structures — 19 chapters — How to make a world where it is easier to care for people, care for the planet, and have a care for the future. The application of permaculture design to organizations, politics, economic systems, civil society.
Section 02: Food — 46 chapters — Food first! It's the easiest and tastiest place to start and does a huge amount of good for you, your planet, and your future.
Section 03: Energy — 26 chapters — Energy is fundamental. Debunks the present wave of optimistic energy propaganda. Surveys your options and alternatives.
Section 04: Shelter — 10 chapters — How to organize your living situation to create comfort, security, and hospitality — no matter what the future throws at you.
Section 05: Water — 10 chapters — Water will be as big an issue in the future as oil, perhaps more so. In many areas, that future is already here. How to be water-wise and build a future of hope.
Section 06: Geography, Access, Transportation — 9 chapters — Neighborhoods, watersheds, ecoregions, and biogeographical provinces. The geographies of your life dictate many of your ecological choices. The importance of organizing the locations and destinations of your life in light of ecological reality.
Section 07: Community — 8 chapters — No woman or man is an island. Community makes or breaks our ecological futures. More on growing a world where it is easier to make good decisions.
Section 08: Economics — 19 chapters — Moving beyond the economics of scarcity to embrace abundance. Practical economics as if people, the planet, and the future matter.
Section 09: Constancy, Persistence, Resilience — 27 chapters — Protecting yourself, all you love, and the communities where you live from the increasingly risky futures that are the consequences of the bad decisions made by billions of people over long periods of time.
Section 10: Health — 12 chapters — Your personal health is your most important area of design.
Section 11: Education — 6 chapters — There is a difference between "going to school" and "getting an education."
Section 12: Family — 5 chapters — Families are fundamental, uniting us across generations to care for people, care for the planet, and have a care for the future.
Section 13: Putting this together — 9 chapters — Making your plans into realities. Finding a critical mass for positive change.
iPermie: The Epilog — A word to the generations.
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