16 Facts About Bill Mollison

Bruce Charles "Bill" Mollison was an Australian researcher, author, scientist, teacher and biologist.

Permaculture is an integrated system of ecological and environmental design which Mollison co-developed with David Holmgren and which they envisioned together as a perennial and sustainable form of agriculture.

In 1974, Bill Mollison began his collaboration with Holmgren and in 1978 they published their book Permaculture One, which introduced this design system to the general public.

Bill Mollison is the developer of the herb spiral, a herb-growing structure that allows herbs with different growing requirements to coexist in a small space.

Bill Mollison founded The Permaculture Institute in Tasmania and created the education system to train others under the umbrella of permaculture.

Bruce Charles "Bill" Mollison was born in 1928 in the Bass Strait fishing village of Stanley located in the north-west of Tasmania, Australia.

Bill Mollison spent his final years at Sisters Beach, north-western Tasmania.

Bill Mollison died in Hobart, Tasmania, in 2016, aged 88.

Bill Mollison was survived by his fifth wife, Lisa, four daughters and two sons.

Bill Mollison left school at age 15 to help run the family bakery.

In 1954, at the age of 26, Bill Mollison joined and worked for the 'Wildlife Survey Section' of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation.

Bill Mollison worked with the Inland Fisheries Commission, where he was able to resume his field work.

Bill Mollison was a senior tutor in the Psychology Dept of the University of Tasmania.

Originally intended as a contraction of permanent agriculture, Bill Mollison quickly realised it was a system for permanent culture, as without a productive landscape, a healthy ecology and a circular economy, no culture would survive.

In 1987, Bill Mollison taught the first PDC course that was offered in India.

Bill Mollison has been called the founder and "father" of permaculture.