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English translation: permaculture


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Portuguese term or phrase:permacultura
English translation:permaculture
Entered by: marina hennies
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19:08 Jun 30, 2008
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Science - Agriculture / organic products
Portuguese term or phrase: permacultura
O conceito de sistema orgânico de produção agropecuária e industrial abrange os denominados: ecológico, biodinâmico, natural, PERMACULTURA e outros
marina hennies
Local time: 21:38
permaculture
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Dolores Vázquez
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gracias, Dolores
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Summary of answers provided
5 +6permacultureDolores Vázquez
4Permanent Culture
Mary Palmer
3permacultural
David Hollywood


  

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2 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
Permanent Culture


Explanation:
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Mary Palmer
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Local time: 21:38
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in PortuguesePortuguese
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2 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +6
permaculture


Explanation:
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    Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permaculture
Dolores Vázquez
Native speaker of: Native in GalicianGalician, Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in category: 12
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gracias, Dolores

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  liz askew: The noun is better here. http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&lr=lang_en&as_qdr=all&q...
23 mins
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agree  Katarina Peters: widely used
27 mins
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agree  Salvador Scofano and Gry Midttun
35 mins
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agree  sula
1 hr
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agree  rhandler
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agree  Scott Alexander: I have two copies of Bill Mollison's book "Permaculture - A Designer's Manual" (one of my top ten favorite books!) - and I'm hoping to put these wonderful ideas into practice someday!
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1 min   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
permacultural


Explanation:
The word permaculture, coined by Australians Bill Mollison and David Holmgren during the 1970s, is a portmanteau of permanent agriculture as well as ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permaculture - 125k - Cached - Similar pages

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Note added at 2 mins (2008-06-30 19:10:29 GMT)
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From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." <london@sunsite.unc.edu>. References:. permacultural orchard (fwd). From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." <london@sunsite.unc.edu> ...
www.ibiblio.org/london/permaculture/mailarchives/permacultu... - 5k - Cached - Similar pages



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Note added at 3 mins (2008-06-30 19:11:31 GMT)
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think it has to be "permaculturAL" in this context ...

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Note added at 20 mins (2008-06-30 19:28:37 GMT)
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your list might read: ecological, biodynamic, natural, permacultural, inter alia

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Changes made by editors
Jul 5, 2008 - Changes made by marina hennies:
Edited KOG entrymarina hennies's old entry - "permacultura" => "permaculture"


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