Permaculture - It's way beyond "Green Building"
It is a practical design system for creating environmentally,
socially, and economically sustainable living environments.
A three-fold Permaculture Ethic "Care of the Earth": (from Introduction to
Permaculture, Bill Mollison)
- Care of the earth means care of all living things and nonliving things: soils, species,
and their varieties, atmosphere, forests, micro-habitats, animals, and waters.
- It also implies care of people so our basic needs for food, shelter, education,
satisfying employment, and convivial human contact are taken care of.
- The third component of the basic "care of the earth" ethic is the contribution of suplus time, money,
and energy to achieve the aims of earth and people care. This means that after we have taken care of
our needs and designed our systems to the best of our ability, we can extend our influence and energies to
helping others achieve that aim.
Permaculture Principles:
- Observation - Close, protracted, all-season is best
- Relative Location
- Each element serves multiple functions
- Key functions served by multiple elements
- Natural patterns
- Create edges - Life is where the edges are
- Diversity
- Energy efficient planning - zones & sectors
- Biological / on-site resources
- Energy / resource cycling
- Appropriate technology
- Small scale, intensive systems
- Attitudinal - see solutions in the problem, cooperation vs competition, think "upstream"
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