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 For many, the Permaculture focus on land and natural resource management is complimentary to the industrial focus of the "green tech" optimists, but there are differences. Permaculture:  For many, the Permaculture focus on land and natural resource management is complimentary to the industrial focus of the "green tech" optimists, but there are differences. Permaculture: 
-* gives priority to using existing wealth to rebuilding natural capital, especially trees and forests, as a proven storage of wealth to sustain humanity into a future with less fossil fuel. +  * gives priority to using existing wealth to rebuilding natural capital, especially trees and forests, as a proven storage of wealth to sustain humanity into a future with less fossil fuel. 
-* emphasises bottom-up "redesign" processes, starting with the individual and household as drivers for change at the market, community and cultural level +  * emphasises bottom-up "redesign" processes, starting with the individual and household as drivers for change at the market, community and cultural level 
-* more fundamentally, was predicated on the likelihood of some degree of collapse and breakdown in technology, economics and even society, which is not envisaged or designed for by the "green tech" optimists but is a current reality for many people around the world. +  * more fundamentally, was predicated on the likelihood of some degree of collapse and breakdown in technology, economics and even society, which is not envisaged or designed for by the "green tech" optimists but is a current reality for many people around the world. 
-* sees pre-industrial sustainable societies as providing models that reflect the more general system design principles observable in nature,and relevant to post-industrial systems.+  * sees pre-industrial sustainable societies as providing models that reflect the more general system design principles observable in nature,and relevant to post-industrial systems.
  
 The assumptions on which permaculture was originally based were:  The assumptions on which permaculture was originally based were: 
-* The environmental crisis is real and its magnitude and impact directly threatens our survival. +  * The environmental crisis is real and its magnitude and impact directly threatens our survival. 
-* The ongoing impact of golbal industrial society and human numbers on biodiversity would be far greater than has ever been. +  * The ongoing impact of golbal industrial society and human numbers on biodiversity would be far greater than has ever been. 
-* Humans are subject to the same scientific laws which govern the entire universe including the evolution of life. +  * Humans are subject to the same scientific laws which govern the entire universe including the evolution of life. 
-* The inevitable depletion of non-renewable fuels will see a return to general pre-industrial systems dependent on renewable energy and resources.+  * The inevitable depletion of non-renewable fuels will see a return to general pre-industrial systems dependent on renewable energy and resources.
  
 Further, insofar as permaculture is an appropriate response to limitations on use of energy and natural resources, it will move on from its current status as "alternative response to environmental crisis" to the social and economic mainstream of the post-industrial era. Whether it will be called permaculture or not is a secondary matter.  Further, insofar as permaculture is an appropriate response to limitations on use of energy and natural resources, it will move on from its current status as "alternative response to environmental crisis" to the social and economic mainstream of the post-industrial era. Whether it will be called permaculture or not is a secondary matter. 
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   * //comparison of the expected and the achieved results//   * //comparison of the expected and the achieved results//
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   * //suggestions and comments on the research process and its results//   * //suggestions and comments on the research process and its results//
   * //description and suggestions around the collaboration process (if applicable)//   * //description and suggestions around the collaboration process (if applicable)//
   * //suggestions for the future work based on the conclusions of the research//   * //suggestions for the future work based on the conclusions of the research//
-  * //comments on the response of the public (if applicable)//  
  
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