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Permaculture Ethics & Design Principles

Permaculture Ethics & Design Principles. from Permaculture: Principles & Pathways Beyond Sustainability by David Holmgren. Permaculture Ethics & Principles. Observe & Interact. Creatively Use & Repond To Change. Ethics: Care of Earth, Care of People & Fair Share.

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Permaculture Ethics & Design Principles

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  1. Permaculture Ethics & Design Principles from Permaculture: Principles & Pathways Beyond Sustainability by David Holmgren

  2. Permaculture Ethics & Principles Observe & Interact Creatively Use & Repond To Change Ethics: Care of Earth, Care of People & Fair Share Use Edges & Value the Marginal Catch & Store Energy Use & Value Diversity Obtain A Yield Use Small & Slow Solutions Apply Self Regulation & Accept Feedback Integrate Rather Than Segregate Use and Value Renewable Resources & Services Design from Patterns to Details Produce No Waste

  3. Ethical Principles of Permaculture • Care of the Earth (Rebuild nature’s capital) • Care of the People • (Nurture the self, kin and community) • Fair Share • (Live simply so that others may simply live)

  4. 1: OBSERVE AND INTERACT Beauty is in the eye of the beholder

  5. 1: OBSERVE AND INTERACT

  6. 2: CATCH AND STORE ENERGY Make hay while the sun shines

  7. 2: CATCH AND STORE ENERGY

  8. 3: OBTAIN A YIELD You can’t work on an empty stomach

  9. 3: OBTAIN A YIELD

  10. 4: APPLY SELF-REGULATION AND ACCEPT FEEDBACK The sins of the fathers are visited on the children unto the seventh generation

  11. 4: APPLY SELF- REGULATION & ACCEPT FEEDBACK

  12. 5: USE AND VALUE RENEWABLE RESOURCES AND SERVICES Let nature take its course

  13. 5: USE & VALUE RENEWABLE RESOURCES & SERVICES

  14. 6: PRODUCE NO WASTE Waste not, want not. A stitch in time saves nine

  15. 6: PRODUCE NO WASTE

  16. 7: DESIGN FROM PATTERNS TO DETAILS Can’t see the wood for the trees

  17. 7: DESIGN FROM PATTERNS TO DETAILS

  18. 8: INTEGRATE RATHER THAN SEGREGATE Many hands make light work

  19. 8: INTEGRATE RATHER THAN SEGREGATE

  20. 9: USE SMALL AND SLOW SOLUTIONS The bigger they are, the harder they fall Slow and steady wins the race

  21. 9: USE SMALL AND • SLOW SOLUTIONS

  22. 10: USE AND VALUE DIVERSITY Don’t put all your eggs in one basket

  23. 10: USE AND VALUE DIVERSITY

  24. 11: USE EDGES AND VALUE THE MARGINAL Don’t think you are on the right track just because it is a well-beaten path

  25. 11: USE EDGES AND VALUE THE MARGINAL

  26. 12: CREATIVELY USE AND RESPOND TO CHANGE Vision is not seeing things as they are, but as they will be

  27. 12: CREATIVELY USE & RESPOND TO CHANGE

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