Permaculture Song - Permaculture Ethics - Permaculture Design Principles

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYIBYQY-h1Q

Wikipedia.org/wiki/Permaculture

Permaculture ethics: 

1. Care of the Earth: Provision for all life systems to continue and multiply. 
2. Care of People: Provision for people to access those resources necessary for their existence. 
3. Setting Limits to Population and Consumption: By governing our own needs, we can set resources aside to further the above principles.[7]

Permaculture 12 design principles:

1. Observe and interact: By taking time to engage with nature we can design solutions that suit our particular situation. 
2. Catch and store energy: By developing systems that collect resources at peak abundance, we can use them in times of need. 
3. Obtain a yield: Ensure that you are getting truly useful rewards as part of the work that you are doing. 
4. Apply self-regulation and accept feedback: We need to discourage inappropriate activity to ensure that systems can continue to function well. 
5. Use and value renewable resources and services: Make the best use of nature's abundance to reduce our consumptive behavior and dependence on non-renewable resources. 
6. Produce no waste: By valuing and making use of all the resources that are available to us, nothing goes to waste. 
7. Design from patterns to details: By stepping back, we can observe patterns in nature and society. These can form the backbone of our designs, with the details filled in as we go. 
8. Integrate rather than segregate: By putting the right things in the right place, relationships develop between those things and they work together to support each other. 
9. Use small and slow solutions: Small and slow systems are easier to maintain than big ones, making better use of local resources and producing more sustainable outcomes. 
10. Use and value diversity: Diversity reduces vulnerability to a variety of threats and takes advantage of the unique nature of the environment in which it resides. 
11. Use edges and value the marginal: The interface between things is where the most interesting events take place. These are often the most valuable, diverse and productive elements in the system. 
12. Creatively use and respond to change: We can have a positive impact on inevitable change by carefully observing, and then intervening at the right time.[8]

Love the song..., but I am not trading tractors for horses... Permaculture ethics and design principals work for me... and a growing number of people who see the present paradigm of modern agriculture as not sustainable... Nice 'pictorial walk through for beginners' at Permaculture - Beginners Guide... 

Monte