Permacultura una alternativa de vida dentro de los parámetros del buen vivir: estudio de caso en la casa de acogida “María amor”

Abstract

The disturbing social and ecological issues that our planet is facing at present have managed to focus on posing different alternatives to act in favor of a healthy integral human-ecologic ecosystem. These alternatives intend to integrate the ecological, social, spiritual, cultural forefronts, among others, into a unique praxis. The following study deals with the possibility of carrying on ecological and social practices that, on one hand, are harmonious with the environment, and on the other hand, permit sustainability to our generation and the future ones. An important fact is the present focus on the need to reformulate and recreate the links with our fellows and the community as well as with our environment: nature and surroundings. Permaculture is an ecological design of a habitat lying in a specific space. Within its praxis and theory, we can find principles that guide us into the self-sufficiency path as related to food production and consumption as well as other aspects such as medicine, construction, etc., in addition to several other practices that will strength the links from the individuals to the environment by recycling and regenerating life. Such praxis invites us to foster the symbiotic relations in the space either with nature and the environment as with the people that coexist in this space. It will be possible to understand this praxis, by contextualizing it within concepts such as the relationality and the systemic besides considering the significances and live practices from the native people, as the Good Living. These concepts will clarify a new world perspective, a world where the existent interrelationships are visualized and where, the permaculturist, by using his/her intelligent to serve the natural-global system, is able to design a habitat that develops symbiotic relations that will be reflected then after in his/her own life.