Permaculture. The potential is as endless as the suns energy and population growth

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Permaculture Permaculture is a ecologically based design system for deliberately creating environments with inherent diversity, dynamic stability, and resilience.

2 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

4 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

5 "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.

6 Make the switch, from me to we.

7 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.

Permaculture Ethics & Principles Creatively Use & Repond To Change Observe & Interact Use Edges & Value the Marginal Catch & Store Energy Use & Value Diversity Use Small & Slow Solutions Ethics: Care

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

9 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)

10 1: OBSERVE AND INTERACT Beauty is in the eye of the beholder

11 1: OBSERVE AND INTERACT

12 2: CATCH AND STORE ENERGY Make hay while the sun shines

13 2: CATCH AND STORE ENERGY

14 3: OBTAIN A YIELD You can t work on an empty stomach

15 3: OBTAIN A YIELD

16 4: APPLY SELF-REGULATION AND ACCEPT FEEDBACK The sins of the fathers are visited on the children unto the seventh generation

17 4: APPLY SELF- REGULATION & ACCEPT FEEDBACK

18 5: USE AND VALUE RENEWABLE RESOURCES AND SERVICES Let nature take its course

19 5: USE & VALUE RENEWABLE RESOURCES & SERVICES

20 6: PRODUCE NO WASTE Waste not, want not. A stitch in time saves nine

21 6: PRODUCE NO WASTE

22 7: DESIGN FROM PATTERNS TO DETAILS Can t see the wood for the trees

23 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

24 8: INTEGRATE RATHER THAN SEGREGATE Many hands make light work

25 8: INTEGRATE RATHER THAN SEGREGATE

26 9: USE SMALL AND SLOW SOLUTIONS The bigger they are, the harder they fall Slow and steady wins the race

27 9: USE SMALL AND SLOW SOLUTIONS

28 10: USE AND VALUE DIVERSITY Don t put all your eggs in one basket

29 10: USE AND VALUE DIVERSITY

30 11: USE EDGES AND VALUE THE MARGINAL Don t think you are on the right track just because it is a well-beaten path

31 11: USE EDGES AND VALUE THE MARGINAL

32 12: CREATIVELY USE AND RESPOND TO CHANGE Vision is not seeing things as they are, but as they will be

33 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

34 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.

An Introduction to Permaculture

An Introduction to Permaculture A way to work with nature to design a place for humans to live. Its nature based systems design, creating environments with diversity, dynamic stability, and resilience.