Introduction to permaculture

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1. belfalasJan 2023
   Many more beyond this but these are my for sures.

   People / Soft Skills:

   * How to win friends and Influence People - Dale Carnegie

   * Secrets of Consulting - Gerald Weinberg

   * Peopleware - Tom DeMarco & Timothy Lister

   * Nurtured by Love - Shinici Suzuki

   * Turn the Ship Around! - David Marquet

   * Never Split the Difference - Chris Voss

   http://dhemery.com/articles/resistance_as_a_resource/

   http://dhemery.com/articles/managing_yourself_through_change...

   Macro Skills:

   * Toyota Production System - Taiichii Ohno

   * Workplace Management - Taiichii Ohno

   * Thinking in Systems - Donella Meadows

   * Fifth Discipline - Peter Senge

   Agile:

   * Extreme Programming, Explained (2nd ed.) - Kent Beck (the annotated bibliography is a goldmine)

   * Chaos: Making a New Science - James Gleick

   Programming:

   * Implementation Patterns - Kent Beck

   * Test-Driven Development, By Example - Kent Beck

   * Refactoring (both editions) - Martin Fowler

   * Refactoring to Patterns - Joshua Kerievsky

   * Practical Object Oriented Design - Sandi Metz

   * Functional Programming in Scala - Chiusano & Bjarnason

   * Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided By Tests - Freeman & Pryce ("The Goose Book")

   * Modern Java in Action - Raoul-Gabriel Urma

   * Java Concurrency in Practice - Brian Goetz

   * Grokking Algorithms - Aditya Y. Bhargava

   Architecture:

   * Righting Software - Juval Lowy

   * Release It! - Michael Nygard

   * Site Reliability Engineering - Beyer, et al. ("The SRE Book”)

   * Domain Driven Design - Eric Evans

   * Introduction to Permaculture - Bill Mollison and Mia Slay

   * Fun with a Pencil - Andrew Loomis

   Design:

   * All books by Edward Tufte, especially “The visual display of quantitative information”

   * The Elements of Typographic Style - Robert Bringhurst

   * Understanding Comics - Scott McCloud

   * Design of Everyday Things - Don Norman

   * Notes on the Synthesis of Form - Christopher Alexander

   * The Timeless Way of Building - Christopher Alexander

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2. gdubsMay 2021
   Check out Bill Mollison’s “Introduction to Permaculture” and “Permaculture: A Designer’s Manual”. He breaks things into principles across different climates. They’re also generally inspiring books.
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3. george_kaplanSep 2018
   Not OP, but I can recommend these two books:

   "Making Small Farms Work" by Richard Perkins

   and

   "Restoration Agriculture: Real World Permaculture for Farmers" by Mark Shepard

   Then there are the books by Bill Mollison that arguably started it all: "Permaculture: A Designers' Manual", and "Introduction to Permaculture"

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4. gdubsApr 2020
   I recently posted a link to Bill Mollison’s “Introduction to Permaculture”, which is available to borrow digitally on the archive.org [1]

   One critical aspect of permaculture is water management. It’s usually one of the first things you consider when designing a home, a farm, a town, a city — even a whole region.

   The crazy thing is, despite all the drought, most of our land is engineered to “ditch” water — get it off the land as quickly as possible.

   This is because too much water can cause it’s own set of problems, and the flip side of drier summers can be flood-like rain in the wet months.

   What permaculturists like to do is find ways to capture rain in a non-destructive way, through “swales” (winding excavations that slow the water as it moves through the land, distributing it from the valleys to the ridges, sometimes small ponds), and deep rooted perennial prairie grasses and trees that break up the hard pan souls and allow water to penetrate deeply. The overall aim is to recharge the underlying aquifer.

   There’s lots of secondary benefits to this kind of whole-system approach, but at minimum we should be re-engineering our landscape to make better use of what we’re given every year.

   1: https://archive.org/details/introductiontope00moll/mode/2up

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