Permaculture is defined by Wikipedia as “an approach to designing human settlements and agricultural systems that mimic the relationships found in natural ecologies.” It is this sense a special biomimicry: an ecological system based in a model of natural synergy, where a harmony is maintained between the production of food, stewardship of the human habitat, and the cultivation of the earth.

Permaculture is both an ecological and a pragmatic social human ethic. It is ecological in so far as its aim is the preservation of our natural environment through the cultivation of care and respect for the delicate balance of nature and at the same time, it is a pragmatic ethic because it encourages and generates cooperative relationships between among people, as well as between them and the earth. (The term originally stood for ‘permanent agriculture’ but has come to mean ‘permanent culture.’) Some permaculture activities include rainwater harvesting, the creation of local gardens with perennial plants, and refusing to use land to create cash crops which that do not nurture the life of the community.

Permaculture is a nonviolent solution to the crisis of food and resource scarcity that threatens the extinction continuation of the human experiment thriving on theis planet. As more and more conflicts worldwide come about because of poverty and resource scarcity, permaculture becomes more and more the locus of a nonviolent solution. Insofar as it can bring independence from globalization, permaculture is often a way to support swaraj (self-rule) through swadeshi (localism).