Permaculture Giants
Picture: April Sampson-Kelly and Bill Mollison
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Permaculture - concise
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Core tenets
The core tenets of permaculture are:
Care of the earth:
Provision for all life systems to continue and multiply. This is the
first principle, because without a healthy earth, humans cannot
flourish. - Care of the people: Provision for people to access those resources necessary for their existence.
- Return of Surplus:
Reinvesting surpluses back into the system to provide for the first
two ethics. This includes returning waste back into the system to
recycle into usefulness.
Permaculture
design emphasizes patterns of landscape, function, and species
assemblies. Determines where these element should be placed such that it
provides maximum benefit to the local environment. The central concept
of permaculture is maximizing useful connections between components and
synergy of the final design. The focus of permaculture, therefore, is
not on each separate element, but rather on the relationships created
among elements by the way they are placed together; the whole becoming
greater than the sum of it's parts. Permaculture design therefore seeks
to minimize waste, human labor, and energy input by building systems
with maximal benefits between design elements to achieve a high level of
synergy. Permaculture designs evolve over time by taking into account
these relationships and elements and can become extremely complex
systems that produce a high density of food and materials with minimal
input.
Remember, we stand upon the shoulders of those who came before us.
Maya
Angelou said…”We stand on the shoulders of those who came before us”.
Isaac Newton said…”If I have seen further, it is only by standing on the
shoulders of giants”.
Lets always give others credit for their work.
