Sustainable Revolution: Permaculture in Ecovillages, Urban Farms, and Communities Worldwide

If you want to see the world we wish to create, here it is, page after page, a true tour de force of positive (r)evolution. You will be inspired and amazed at what people are doing all over the world. Whether you want to visit these incredible and unique communities on your travels (or even become a part of them!) or bring their techniques into your own life, buy this book. The photos are excellent, the layout intuitive and the read enjoyable. This book is a great addition to any permaculture fan, student or practitioner's collection and is a profound gift for anyone interested in the subject and ready to get thinking and moving in the direction of building a new world. While this is not a step-by-step how-to manual, it is an in depth look at the array of models/options out there, depending on the climate zone you are in (and if you get inspired by one, go to that thing called the interwebs to research more specifically the how-tos). Everyone knows that it's no easy thing to create a permaculture community or grow all the food you need to live on and this book doesn't say otherwise, but it does give you a roadmap for action like none I've seen before.

I could not recommend it this book enough. The authors are personal friends of mine, and I've watched them labour over it for the past 8 years. They visited communities all over the world looking for models of living that are radically different than how we have been trained to live. What they discovered will blow your mind. The book is stock filled with examples of people making different choices about what's important, and what's valued in life. Choices that honor how we used to live in community, share our lives in ways that enrich, and redefine what wealth, friendship and family can mean. If, like me, you have a part of you that yearns for a different way of living, this book is a true inspiration. It's not a book of prescriptive answers about how we should live, but a book of possibilities. When you see how these communities are choosing to organize, you can't help but ask yourself important questions about how you're living and what you're prioritizing. Everyone I know is getting a copy as a gift.

Sustainable (R)evolution is a well-organized book filled with information that offers wisdom and examples of sustainable living from all over the world. The authors’ insight is deepened by their experiences in living a sustainable life and putting the things they have learned and teach into real world experiences. I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I read it while building my own sustainable community, Saint Michael’s in Costa Rica. It was an inspiration to say the least. I hope this book continues to forge a path for better communities, in a better world, with a better life for all of us.

Very easy to read book very in depth in all the major concerns that the old practices of agriculture system possed to nowadays; understandable and well thought like having a conversation with an expert/passionate researcher who's goal is to spread his knowledge more than impress and make himself/herself be seeing as the "expert" truly humane in the scenarios that proposes as solution for our overcrowded cities. A must read and include in your family's library so our next geration can have access to this jewel!!!

Practical and full of hope. We can build a better future.

Great book with great pictures. The sections keeps it really organized. I recommend this book to anyone interested in permaculture!

Well written. Thorough. Filled with an abundance of information.

As a long time lover of permaculture I am at once encouraged and disheartened by this passionate and noble undertaking. It has been PC's unwitting undoing that so many of its practitioners have found in it a pseudo-religion to justify a "radically different way of living" at the expense of PC's promise of affording the majority of us accessible ways to move towards self-reliance. Pc's genius was to empower us to start growing food "where we live" WITHOUT having to "paradigm shift" and adopt the multitude of "woo-woo" ideas that Mollison himself continually decried. The "ugly" truth is that New-Age spirituality and philosophy; drum circles and designs; earthworks and yurts are easy - Growing enough food to cover even a small portion of a family's winter needs is exceedingly, bitterly difficult. Permaculture offers us ways to make "moving from consumer to producer" easier. However, as the lack of pictures depicting anything like the much vaunted " abundance" that is supposed to "flow" so easily from being "connected" to "Gaia's energy" attests, easier doesn't mean easy and the "bad" part of this review stems from the book's glossy denial of this reality. At the end of the day, what appears to have been lost from Mollison's original thrust was that economic and ecological sustainability along with community resiliency will result not from 10 % of us living 100% hard-core greenie, but rather from 100% of us living 10% greener. As long as books like this continue to reinforce PC's sadly deserved fringe reputation, PC will remain what this book too clearly shows it to be - a pipe dream wrapped in failed potential, inspiring the few to "tune in and drop out" while alienating the many....