text: * While originating as an agro-ecological design theory, permaculture has developed a large international following. This permaculture community continues to expand on the original ideas, integrating a range of ideas of alternative culture , through a network of publications, permaculture gardens, intentional communities , training programs, and internet forums. In this way, permaculture has become both a design system and a culture of rewilding the human species. So now you know. ( source )