Permaculture Ethics & Design Principles from Permaculture: Principles & Pathways Beyond Sustainability by David Holmgren

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

Ethical Principles of Permaculture Care of the Earth Care of the Earth (Rebuild nature’s capital) (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

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 AND ACCEPT FEEDBACK The sins of the fathers are visited on the children unto the seventh generation

4: APPLY SELF- REGULATION & ACCEPT FEEDBACK & ACCEPT FEEDBACK

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

5: USE & VALUE RENEWABLE RESOURCES & SERVICES

6: PRODUCE NO WASTE A stitch in time saves nineWaste not, want not.

6: PRODUCE NO WASTE 6: PRODUCE NO WASTE

7: DESIGN FROM PATTERNS TO DETAILS TO DETAILS Can’t see the wood for the trees

7: DESIGN FROM PATTERNS TO DETAILS TO DETAILS

Many hands make light work 8: INTEGRATE RATHER THAN SEGREGATE

8: INTEGRATE RATHER THAN SEGREGATE

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

9: USE SMALL AND SLOW SOLUTIONS

Don’t put all your eggs in one basket 10: USE AND VALUE DIVERSITY 10: USE AND VALUE DIVERSITY

10: USE AND VALUE DIVERSITY

Don’t think you are on the right track just because it is a well-beaten path 11: USE EDGES AND VALUE THE MARGINAL

11: USE EDGES AND VALUE THE MARGINAL 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