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Permaculture Permaculture is a ecologically based design

system for deliberately creating environments

with inherent diversity, dynamic stability, and

resilience.

Enabling the human population as ecological

generation agents rather than destructive

consumption agents.

The potential is as endless as the suns energy

and population growth

Permaculture ... is all about combining age old

truths and skills with new and innovative

thinking and technologies …people, plants and

landscapes growing together , designing and

nurturing a healthy community along the way. -

Costa Georgiadis

Permaculture is practical, grass roots

sustainability in action. It provides immediate

tools for people to reduce their environmental

footprint and build resilient communities.

Josh Byrne, Gardening Australia

"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of

thinking we used when we created them.“ Einstein

Permaculture's founder Bill Mollison suggests asking

questions in a different manner.

Instead of looking at land and saying,

“What can I take from this land ?”

ask

“What does this land have to give?”

The first immediately puts you at war with nature and in

competition, the later directs and encourages us to work with

nature to increase the yield of the system for both parties.

Make the switch, from “me” to “we”.

How ?

Hands in the Soil

The power of just doing stuff !

Accept the Feedback and Evolve

Learn and Share ! Build Community

Use the Permaculture Design Cheat Sheet

Join your peers in local community groups.

PermacultureWest is WA’s Hub.

Ethics:

Care of Earth,

Care of People

& Fair Share

Observe & Interact

Catch & Store Energy

Obtain A Yield

Apply Self Regulation &

Accept Feedback

Use and Value Renewable

Resources & Services

Produce No Waste Design from Patterns to Details

Integrate Rather

Than Segregate

Use Small &

Slow Solutions

Use & Value

Diversity

Use Edges & Value

the Marginal

Creatively Use &

Repond To Change

Permaculture Ethics & Principles

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)

1: OBSERVE AND INTERACT

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder

1: OBSERVE AND INTERACT

Make hay while the sun shines

2: CATCH AND STORE ENERGY

2: CATCH AND STORE ENERGY

3: OBTAIN A YIELD

You can’t work on an empty stomach

3: OBTAIN A YIELD

4: APPLY SELF-REGULATION AND ACCEPT FEEDBACK

The sins of the fathers are visited on the

children unto the seventh generation

4: APPLY SELF- REGULATION & ACCEPT FEEDBACK

5: USE AND VALUE RENEWABLE

RESOURCES AND SERVICES

Let nature take its course

5: USE & VALUE RENEWABLE

RESOURCES & SERVICES

6: PRODUCE NO WASTE

A stitch in time saves nine Waste not, want not.

6: PRODUCE NO WASTE

7: DESIGN FROM PATTERNS

TO DETAILS

Can’t see the wood for the trees

7: DESIGN FROM PATTERNS

TO DETAILS Broad to Specific - Wear the natures hat or the designers hat.

Not the owners hat.

Sector Analysis - Map the Natural Forces acting on your site.

Sun - Hot, Shade, Arc, Seasonal – Main URBAN Design Factor.

Water – Rain, harvesting vs erosion, Main RURAL design factor.

Nutrient Cycling - Close the loop - Deep sandy soils need help.

Articulate Design Principles – Use the Systems Design Cheat Sheet

Many hands make light work

8: INTEGRATE RATHER

THAN SEGREGATE

8: INTEGRATE RATHER

THAN SEGREGATE

The bigger they are, the harder they fall

Slow and steady wins the race

9: USE SMALL AND

SLOW SOLUTIONS

9: USE SMALL AND

SLOW SOLUTIONS

Don’t put all your eggs in one basket

10: USE AND VALUE DIVERSITY

10: USE AND

VALUE DIVERSITY

Don’t think you are on the right track

just because it is a well-beaten path

11: USE EDGES AND

VALUE THE MARGINAL

11: USE EDGES AND

VALUE THE MARGINAL

12: CREATIVELY USE AND

RESPOND TO CHANGE

Vision is not seeing things as they are,

but as they will be

12: CREATIVELY USE &

RESPOND TO CHANGE

Empowering and Solution

Based As a grass roots movement permaculture

does not require government funding or

committee approval, just the willingness of

people to move forward to a preferred

ecological reality.

You are the master of this change, but the

permaculture community provided like

minded peers to help you on the journey.