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For many, the Permaculture focus on land and natural resource management is complimentary to the industrial focus of the "green tech" optimists, but there are differences. Permaculture: | For many, the Permaculture focus on land and natural resource management is complimentary to the industrial focus of the "green tech" optimists, but there are differences. Permaculture: | ||
- | * gives priority to using existing wealth to rebuilding natural capital, especially trees and forests, as a proven storage of wealth to sustain humanity into a future with less fossil fuel. | + | |
- | * emphasises bottom-up " | + | * emphasises bottom-up " |
- | * more fundamentally, | + | * more fundamentally, |
- | * sees pre-industrial sustainable societies as providing models that reflect the more general system design principles observable in nature,and relevant to post-industrial systems. | + | * sees pre-industrial sustainable societies as providing models that reflect the more general system design principles observable in nature,and relevant to post-industrial systems. |
The assumptions on which permaculture was originally based were: | The assumptions on which permaculture was originally based were: | ||
- | * The environmental crisis is real and its magnitude and impact directly threatens our survival. | + | |
- | * The ongoing impact of golbal industrial society and human numbers on biodiversity would be far greater than has ever been. | + | * The ongoing impact of golbal industrial society and human numbers on biodiversity would be far greater than has ever been. |
- | * Humans are subject to the same scientific laws which govern the entire universe including the evolution of life. | + | * Humans are subject to the same scientific laws which govern the entire universe including the evolution of life. |
- | * The inevitable depletion of non-renewable fuels will see a return to general pre-industrial systems dependent on renewable energy and resources. | + | * The inevitable depletion of non-renewable fuels will see a return to general pre-industrial systems dependent on renewable energy and resources. |
Further, insofar as permaculture is an appropriate response to limitations on use of energy and natural resources, it will move on from its current status as " | Further, insofar as permaculture is an appropriate response to limitations on use of energy and natural resources, it will move on from its current status as " | ||
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Permaculture is a wholehearted adaptation to the ecological realities of decline and offers us a graceful and ethical descent. The process for providing for people' | Permaculture is a wholehearted adaptation to the ecological realities of decline and offers us a graceful and ethical descent. The process for providing for people' | ||
- | 1.Observe and Interact | + | 1. Observe and Interact |
- | 2.Catch and store energy | + | 2. Catch and store energy |
- | 3.Obtain a yield | + | 3. Obtain a yield |
- | 4.Apply self-regulation and accept feedback | + | 4. Apply self-regulation and accept feedback |
- | 5.Use and value renewable resources and services | + | 5. Use and value renewable resources and services |
- | 6.Produce no waste | + | 6. Produce no waste |
- | 7.Design from patterns to details | + | 7. Design from patterns to details |
- | 8.Integrate rather than segregate | + | 8. Integrate rather than segregate |
- | 9.Use small and slow solutions | + | 9. Use small and slow solutions |
10.Use and value diversity | 10.Use and value diversity | ||
11.Use edges and value the marginal | 11.Use edges and value the marginal | ||
- | 12.Creatiively | + | 12.Creatively |
Now, in a situation of descent, //ethics// become indispensable and through their culturally evolved systemic nature lead us to create a more inclusive view of who and what constitutes " | Now, in a situation of descent, //ethics// become indispensable and through their culturally evolved systemic nature lead us to create a more inclusive view of who and what constitutes " | ||
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=== Possibilities for urban permaculture kits === | === Possibilities for urban permaculture kits === | ||
- | An important question considered by the researcher was, what are the growth symbols/ | + | An important question considered by the researcher was, what are the growth symbols/ |
see [[urban permaculture kits]] | see [[urban permaculture kits]] | ||
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