The Rio Report: Mawddach Permaculture Group
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN RURAL WALES
an outline document produced by
the Mawddach Permaculture Group
1. Introduction
- We are a small group of individuals who have been meeting for over a year
working on designing ecologically sustainable communities in our area. Our
attention has focussed on various topics, with the driving force being the
obvious need to change present unsustainable systems of agriculture and forestry;
these damage the earth, employ fewer and fewer people and cost the British
taxpayer vast sums of money.
- We envisage land use systems based on ecologically and environmentally
sound principles. We believe it is possible to generate food production and
forestry systems that would build soils and communities rather than degrade
and erode them. Industry would make the best use of locally available resources
and aim to provide the goods and services needed by the community. The emphasis
would be on self-reliance, but there would also be trade in the export of
surplus produce and locally crafted/manufactured goods and the import of goods
unavailable locally.
- We have presented our ideas under a series of main headings. However, our
work has lead us to the conclusion that sustainable communities are best understood
and developed as fully interconnected systems. With this in mind, each main
heading is followed by brief descriptions showing links to other headings.
- This document as presented is an outline only. Further details are available
on all aspects of sustainable development from the contact address given on
this page.
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