What is Permaculture
Permaculture is a philosophy of working with, rather than against nature; of rotracted & and thoughtful observation rather than protracted & thoughtless labour; & of looking at plants & animals in all their functions, rather than treating any area as a single-product system. - Bill Mollison.
- 100 hours of thought and 1 hour of work.
- Work is a failure in design
The Power of Myth
“Myths which are believed in tend to become true.” - George Orwell
Prime Directive
- Take responsibility for our own existance and that of our children
- We need to get our house and garden in order, so that they feed and shelter us.
Core Ethics
- care of earth
- Care of People
- Future care
Is sustainable Enough?
- Degenerative
- Reduces, destroys, or eliminates its own sources of energy and materials
- Sustainable
- Maintains, balances or sustains its own sources of energy and materials.
- Regenerative
- restore, renew or increases its own sources of energy and materials
Permaculture produces systems that ..
- provide net positive calories
- produce topsoil
- increase fertility
Where do we look for answers?
Nature as a mentor
And to use something as elegant as a tree? Image this design assignment: Design somthing that makes oxygen, sequesters carbon, fixes nitrogen, distills water, makes comples sugars and foods, changes colors with the seasons, and self-replicates and then why don’t we knock that down and write on is? - William McDonough
The industrial System
- Source oil
- Industrial Agriculture
- Consumer
- Sink Landfill
The Ecological System
- Source Sun
- Networks (internet, antifragile)
- Sink CO2
Two Types of Ecosystems
Avaliable solar energy Immature ecosystem
- low diversity
- Annual plants
- Competition
- Parasitism
- Nutrient leakage
- Export
- Fast change
- Water export by drainage
Mature ecosystem
- High diversity
- Perennial plants
- co-operation
- Mutualism
- Nutrient Cirulation
- On-site consumption
- Slow change
- Water export by evaportation
never selling anything off your land that can’t walk off your land. - farmers saying(wisdom) sick of killing things that want to live and trying to keep alive things that want to die. -farmers saying
“Everything gardens” - Bill Mollison
“The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of humans beings” - Masanobu Fukuoka
Do weeds exist? Tags #ecosystemecologypermacultureethicsparadygmsweedsnatives
References: Bill Mollison