Ecological Design

Permaculture makes the most use of what nature provides for us by using specific design strategies to maximize nature’s gifts, such as food, energy, and shelter. A counter to heavy industrial farming, permaculture is all about conscious planning that caters to the human needs while also respecting and healing the natural environment. At its core, it involves drawing inspiration from nature to build an ecosystem that thrives just like any other. If you want to start practicing permaculture and reap all its benefits, then you need to listen to this audiobook today!

Design your home to optimize your healthy lifestyle with this room-by-room guide from certified kitchen designer and wellness design consultant Jamie Gold. Residential designer Jamie Gold has spent years exploring how simple changes to things like lighting, fixtures, storage, and outdoor space...

Pioneers of Human Behaviour: James J. Gibson A Gateway to His Life, Theories, and Legacy What if perception wasn’t a private movie inside your head, but a direct conversation with the world itself? James J. Gibson, one of the most original psychologists of the 20th century, turned the field upside down with his radical claim: the world is not reconstructed by the brain — it is already given in the environment. His ecological psychology reshaped how we understand vision, design, technology, and even daily life. This concise yet powerful volume distils Gibson’s life and theories into ...

In Ecological Intelligence: How Knowing the Hidden Impacts of What We Buy Can Change Everything, Daniel Goleman recasts the uproar over global warming and the assault of man-made toxins into our bodies in terms of the collective self-deception which both created this crisis and holds a key to...

The consumer society, in which the world economy is trapped, leads the planet to a catastrophic irreversible deterioration of natural resources and energy sources that confronts us with the paradigm of a new mentality to stop climate change, the loss of ecosystems and the accelerated disappearance of biodiversity In this sense, in recent decades, alternative solutions for more sustainable and nature-friendly ways of life have been demanded by various sectors, emerging various trends and mentalities from which Permaculture emerges as an exemplary and viable philosophy and lifestyle for ...

Ecological Intelligence argues that "green" labels and recycling programs may do more harm than good by feeding a vital lie, lulling us into the illusion that we are doing enough already while ignoring the adverse impact of the far vaster proportion of what we buy and do.