What is Permaculture? - Part 3 - Principles
In our permaculture journey so far, we have discussed what permaculture is (part 1 - a whole systems design science), and how it is based on a prime directive and a set of three ethics (part2).
In part 3 we are going to do a brief overview of the various permaculture principles before doing a deeper dive into each of them, in subsequent posts.
In Permaculture, because we are looking at 'whole complex system design', each design that we do is unique, there is no one size fits all, be that a garden, a business, a curriculum or a life style. Therefore a set of guiding principles will help us in planning our design. We will explore how you may interpreted and incorporate these principles in your system design, whatever that may be.
In many of the permaculture books and website that you may read, often they are looking as using these principles either in agriculture or gardening. As permaculture has evolved over the years there are some resources that explore these principles being applied to the design of businesses or educational curriculums.
Here are some useful links to these resources.
- Applying permaculture principles to business design
- how to apply permaculture principles to grow sustainable organisations
- The permaculture classroom
- Design principle in pedagogy
However in my subsequent posts, because of my background as a qualified health professional, I will explore these principles in relation to health and wellness, resilient living and self reliance.
So let's start
Permaculture Principles 101
In the manual, Introduction to Permaculture (Bill Mollison with Reny Mia Slay, 2011), Chapter 1, there are 11 principles identified.
The way you apply these principles will depend on the system you are designing and its function. However they help guide our thought processes, solve problems and keep us on track to the desired outcome.
There are several resources available below where Bill Mollison's principles are discussed in more depth, those resources can be found here:
- Bill Mollison's Permaculture Design Principles Chapter 2 explained
- Permaculture Principles by Bill Mollison
David Holmgren developed the 12 Principles of Permaculture
And also the Permaculture flower which illustrates the 7 domains of permaculture
A lot has been written about how you can incorporate these ethics and principles in land management, buildings, education and business.
In this video David Holmgren give a brief overview
The year 2020 with its Global COVID pandemic has highlighted many gaps in the way we have been choosing to live our lives with many people now wanting to change. The problem is "HOW"?
Whilst I incorporate these permaculture ethics and principles in the way I live my own life. An area I wish to explore in future posts is how you can incorporate these design principles in designing a lifestyle which meets your needs whilst also still meeting the three ethics.
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