PERMACULTURE: WHY NOT AN EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITY IN OUR SCHOOLS!?

When I was a student in the secondary school, in the middle of the 1950s, our school used to have extracurricular activities; and I chose photography, which helped me later in my professional activity: teaching and research in ecology.

This remembrance occurred to me as I accessed information in the internet about permaculture.

Its concept is given in the Wikipedia as follows:
Permaculture is a branch of ecological design and ecological engineering which develops sustainable human settlements and self-maintained agricultural systems modeled from natural ecosystems.
The core tenets of permaculture are:
Care of the Earth: Provision for all life systems to continue and multiply.
Care of People: Provision for people to access those resources necessary for their existence.
Setting Limits to Population and Consumption: By governing our own needs, we can set resources aside to further the above principles.

Permaculture draws from several disciplines including organic farming, agroforestry, integrated farming, sustainable development, and applied ecology. "The primary agenda of the movement has been to assist people to become more self reliant through the design and development of productive and sustainable gardens and farms. The design principles which are the conceptual foundation of permaculture were derived from the science of systems ecology and study of pre-industrial examples of sustainable land use."

The photos below show its practice:




Pet bottles can be easily reused for this purpose.


Plastic boxes are advantageously durable.



A bit of an 'exaggeration', maybe!



An apparently useless small site just shows the opposite.



Young students must get involved with Nature. It's not only a therapy, it builds communities!

ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION. That's it!!!

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