What is “Permanent Culture” and what are the pieces that go into building real local sustainability?

For those already familiar with the term “Permaculture”, the leading descriptions would likely include the term “Design”. Permaculturists design whole system sustainable environments…and as a whole system, that can expand out about as far as your imagination.

Good design, driven by creativity, can expand and renew even the most archaic and decrepit failed systems, environments and locales. When we discard the Tyranny of Either/Or, and work together to fashion a vision of action geared towards helping our communities, amazing transformation can happen.

This TED talk by Emily Pilloton, of Project H Design is one such example of the power of community, creativity and good design.