Here’s an article that might be interesting—one of two in a series. It explains permaculture as applied to gardening and agriculture in general. There are other branches of permaculture, too (energy, technologies related to other efforts and so on). There’s no one political philosophy or anything like that. All kinds of people are involved, and practicality is required (e.g., work).
Permaculture and the Myth of Scarcity
http://www.resilience.org/stories/2014-10-02/permaculture-and-the-myth-of-scarcity
Interesting article. Thanks.