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.
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
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
2: CATCH AND STORE ENERGY Make hay while the sun shines
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 Waste not, want not. A stitch in time saves nine
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
8: INTEGRATE RATHER THAN SEGREGATE Many hands make light work
8: INTEGRATE RATHER THAN SEGREGATE
9: USE SMALL AND SLOW SOLUTIONS The bigger they are, the harder they fall Slow and steady wins the race
9: USE SMALL AND SLOW SOLUTIONS
10: USE AND VALUE DIVERSITY Don t put all your eggs in one basket
10: USE AND VALUE DIVERSITY
11: USE EDGES AND VALUE THE MARGINAL Don t think you are on the right track just because it is a well-beaten path
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.