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Commenced:
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01/01/2009 |
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Submitted:
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27/07/2011 |
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Last updated:
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07/10/2015 |
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Location:
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GB |
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Website:
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www.integralpermanence.org |
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Climate zone:
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Cold Temperate |
Integralpermanence is a specialist design and education outfit working globally to help individuals, groups and communities to optimise their impact in the environment
Working with the fundamental landscape characteristics and components, Integralpermanence leverages opportunities to create regenerative landscape designs. We involve all the decision makers and investigate resource bases to identify both the "bleeds" of the business and points of leverage in terms of production and developing local and direct client bases. Using the Keyline scale of permanence we are able to manage landscape master planning based on how individual land components function together as a whole. By doing so localised characteristics of the climate, slope, aspect are given thorough consideration and the energy flows, mineral and water cycles within the site can be enhanced.
We work closely with our clients to envision the quality of life they desire and work backwards from there to identify what needs to be produced or created for that vision to be sustained long into the future. We prefer to engage in only 1 or 2 projects at a time to ensure quality working standards. Our long term committment toprojects we work with is a response to what we consider ineffective consultancy simply laying out paper based design.
Integralpermanence focuses primarily on building healthy topsoil through primarily biological methods, although earthworking is sometimes necessary for drought proofing farms in these uncertain climatic variances. Healthy land management leads to large increases in soil Carbon, sequestering large amounts of atmospheric carbon whilst improving soil water holding capacity and diversifying the soil food web. Whether you run herds on pasture, alley crop orchard fruits with annual cultivations or wish to establish native woodland good land management requires the optimum placement of different elements in their rightful place in terms of the land components of any site. We connect elements in any design to perform multiple functions and connect functionally to ensure water, nutrient and energy flows are cycled within the farm and the only thing exported from the site in sunlight. We work with diverse and integrative strategies on new and existing enterprises Bio Construction, Agroforestry, Aquaculture, Orchards and Vineyards, Forest Gardens, Bio Intensive Horticulture, Appropriate Energy, Integrated Animal Systems, Soil Foodweb Technologies and Nutrient and water cycling. Our goals include sequestering carbon, and building resilience through the synthesis of Keyline design as an organizing strategy fro Permaculture and Holistic Management design frameworks to ensure a triple bottom line of Ecological regeneration, Economic profitability and wellbeing of decision makers.
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