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Permaculture Ethics & Design Principles from Permaculture: Principles & Pathways Beyond Sustainability by David Holmgren
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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
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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)
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1: OBSERVE AND INTERACT Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
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1: OBSERVE AND INTERACT
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Make hay while the sun shines 2: CATCH AND STORE ENERGY
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3: OBTAIN A YIELD You can’t work on an empty stomach
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3: OBTAIN A YIELD
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4: APPLY SELF-REGULATION AND ACCEPT FEEDBACK AND ACCEPT FEEDBACK The sins of the fathers are visited on the children unto the seventh generation
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4: APPLY SELF- REGULATION & ACCEPT FEEDBACK & ACCEPT FEEDBACK
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5: USE AND VALUE RENEWABLE RESOURCES AND SERVICES RESOURCES AND SERVICES Let nature take its course
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5: USE & VALUE RENEWABLE RESOURCES & SERVICES
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6: PRODUCE NO WASTE A stitch in time saves nineWaste not, want not.
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6: PRODUCE NO WASTE 6: PRODUCE NO WASTE
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7: DESIGN FROM PATTERNS TO DETAILS TO DETAILS Can’t see the wood for the trees
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7: DESIGN FROM PATTERNS TO DETAILS TO DETAILS
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Many hands make light work 8: INTEGRATE RATHER THAN SEGREGATE
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8: INTEGRATE RATHER THAN SEGREGATE
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The bigger they are, the harder they fall Slow and steady wins the race 9: USE SMALL AND SLOW SOLUTIONS
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9: USE SMALL AND SLOW SOLUTIONS
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Don’t put all your eggs in one basket 10: USE AND VALUE DIVERSITY 10: USE AND VALUE DIVERSITY
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10: USE AND VALUE DIVERSITY
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Don’t think you are on the right track just because it is a well-beaten path 11: USE EDGES AND VALUE THE MARGINAL
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11: USE EDGES AND VALUE THE MARGINAL VALUE THE MARGINAL
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12: CREATIVELY USE AND RESPOND TO CHANGE Vision is not seeing things as they are, but as they will be
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12: CREATIVELY USE & RESPOND TO CHANGE
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