Permaculture eco-pioneer on CNN

We’ve blogged about permaculture before, actually several times, and I follow the goings on at the Permaculture Institute of Australia via their RSS feed. They define permaculture as

…the conscious design and maintenance of agriculturally productive ecosystems which have the diversity, stability, and resilience of natural ecosystems. It is the harmonious integration of landscape and people providing their food, energy, shelter, and other material and non-material needs in a sustainable way.

Which makes it sound so sexy I should not have been surprised to see it going mainstream on CNN a few days ago. But I was. Cynical old me. There are a couple of other interesting things — from an agrobiodiversity point of view — in CNN’s Going Green section.