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This is a really nice way of showing the ethics & design principles of permaculture.
Permaculture Flower
The permaculture journey begins with the Ethics and Design Principles and moves through the ket domains required to create a sustainable culture. The spiral evolutionary path joins together these domains, initially at a personal and local level, and then proceeding to the collective and global level.
Some of the specific fields, design systems and solutions that have been associated with the wider view of permaculture are listed below.
Land & Nature Stewardship
- Bio-intensive gardening
- Forest gardening
- Seed saving
- Organic agriculture
- Biodynamics
- Natural Farming
- Keyline water harvesting
- Holistic Rangeland Management
- Natural Sequence Farming
- Agroforestry
- Nature-based forestry
- Integrated aquaculture
- Wild harvesting & hunting
- Gleaning
Building
- Passive solar design
- Natural construction materials
- Water harvesting & Waste reuse
- Biotechture
- Earth sheltered construction
- Natural resistant construction
- Owner building
- Pattern Language
Tools & Technology
- Reuse and creative recycling
- Hand tools
- Bicycles and electric bikes
- Efficient & low pollution wood stoves
- Fuels from organic wastes
- Wood Gasification
Education & Culture
- Home Schooling
- Waldorf education
- Participatory arts and music
- Social ecology
- Action research
- Transition culture
Health & Spiritual Wellbeing
- Home birth & breast feeding
- Complementary & Holistic medicine
- Yoga, Thai Chi & other body/mind/spirit disciplines
- Spirit if place, indigenous cultural revival
- Dying with dignity
Finances & Economics
- Local & regional currencies
- Carpooling, Ride sharing & Car share
- Ethical Investment & Fair Trade
- Farmers Markets & Community Supported Agriculture (CSA)
- WWOOFing & similar networks
- Tradable Energy Quotas
- Life Cycle Analysis & Energy Accounting
Land Tenure & Community Governance
- Cooperatives & Body Corporates
- Cohousing & Ecovillages
- Native Title and traditional use rights
- Open Space Technology & Consensus Decision Making
Source: permacultureprinciples.com
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