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Inspirational Permaculture Ideas - Tools and Techniques for Sustainable Modern Living Peter Cow, 2011

Some inspirational Permaculture ideas for sustainable living

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A tour through some sustainable living ideas for home, table, garden, person and computer, inspired by Permaculture Design.

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Inspirational Permaculture Ideas- Tools and Techniques for Sustainable Modern Living

Peter Cow, 2011

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NB. Permaculture is a universally applicable sustainable design system, which develops positive win-win ecological and social solutions.

It is not a set collection of techniques, nor is it just about gardening...

We can use it to design what is optimum for each unique situation, so these slides sre for inspiration, not prescription.

Work out what is best for your situation, dream, experiment, design, create new techniques and ideas...and share them with the rest of us!

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Part One – Ideas for the Home

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The Hay Box Cooker

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Draught Busting Events and Eco Home Tours

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Energy Usage Monitors

To build your own monitor- visitwww.OpenEnergyMonitor.org

Use computers to record and analyse your usage

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DIY Double Glazing

Clingfilm, tape and a hair dryer...

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Rainwater Collection from Drainpipes

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Thermal Mass Rocket Stoves

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Treebogs

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And see ways to reduce it...

Measure your Eco Footprint

http://www.cat.org.uk/carbongym/

http://myfootprint.org/en/

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Part Two – Feeding Ourselves

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Wild Food -a few favourites

Lime tree leaves

Nettles - crushed and eaten raw,or steamed/boiled in soups.

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Perennial Vegetables

Egyptian Tree Onions

Daubentons perennial

kale

GlobeArtichokes

To learn more, and find seed suppliers visit – Earth Abbey or Plants for a Future

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Forest Gardening

For information and seeds/plants/books -www.agroforestry.co.uk/

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Mulching

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Sprouting

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Permaculture Zoning - where to place things

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DIY Rodent Proof Tyre Wormery

DIY - Slide Show

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Comfrey for Mulching and Liquid Feeds

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Potato Tyres and Strawberry Towers

Grow vertical...

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Part Three – Permaculture in Person

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What are my long term visions and goals?

Four Questions Exercise

What's going well?

What's challenging?

What are my next achievable steps

towards them?

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The Work That Reconnects

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Eat More Salad

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WWOOFing

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Mentoring, Apprenticeships and Life Coaching

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Ceremony and Celebration

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Part Four – Permaculture in Computers

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Free and Effective Open Source Software

For writing, presentations, and spreadsheets try

Open Office

Want an advert free internet? try Mozilla Firefox

With the Adblock add-on

Free and Easy Mindmaps with FreeMind

VLC Media Player

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Free and Easy Website Creation

Create your own website to record and publicise designs, thoughts, events and photos using a powerful open source web based blogging program such as WordPress

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Internet Treasures

For cheap and friendly travel goCouchSurfing

TED - Videos and podcasts fromthe conference at the cutting

edge of... everything

UK Permaculture Association Global Permaculture Network

Sustainable World Radio PodcastPermies.com

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This is only the tip of the iceberg, a blurred speed dating of some of the flavours of our resilient, possible, sustainable, positive futures - this slide show could go on for days...

Click the links to find out more - learn, experiment, play, co-create, make your own slide show, make a wiki, recreate community, enjoy life and pick fruit.

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With Thanks to -Hannah ThorogoodAranyaGraham BurnettDavid HolmgrenHedvig Murray

And countless others whose work and photos I foraged off Google Images

www.livingincircles.com

Peter Cow 2011