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Per Ma Culture Design Principles

The document outlines the ethics and design principles of permaculture. The three ethics are: care for the Earth, care for people, and fair share. The 12 design principles are: observe and interact, catch and store energy, obtain a yield, apply self-regulation and accept feedback, use and value renewable resources and services, produce no waste, design from patterns to details, integrate rather than segregate, use small and slow solutions, use and value diversity, use edges and value the marginal, and creatively use and respond to change.

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Per Ma Culture Design Principles

The document outlines the ethics and design principles of permaculture. The three ethics are: care for the Earth, care for people, and fair share. The 12 design principles are: observe and interact, catch and store energy, obtain a yield, apply self-regulation and accept feedback, use and value renewable resources and services, produce no waste, design from patterns to details, integrate rather than segregate, use small and slow solutions, use and value diversity, use edges and value the marginal, and creatively use and respond to change.

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Permaculture Ethics

& Design Principles

from Permaculture:

Principles & Pathways Beyond Sustainability

by David Holmgren
Permaculture Ethics & Principles
Creatively Use & Observe & Interact
Repond To Change

Use Edges & Value


the Marginal Catch & Store Energy

Use & Value


Diversity
Obtain A Yield
Ethics:
Care of Earth,
Use Small & Care of People
Slow Solutions & Fair Share
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
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

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