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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.