"Our world is made of systems within systems, an interconnected web of life more complex than humanity has the capacity to grasp all at once. It took me ages to realise that design was the main subject and that network science was the key to it all." Rosemary Morrow
"In many ways, the environmental crisis is a design crisis. It is a consequence of how things are made, buildings are constructed, and landscapes are used."
Sim Van Der Ryn & Stuart Cowan
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Ecology Personal Statement
Ecology Lab Report
Ecology And The Climate Change
Essay about Deep Ecology
Ecological Restoration Essay
Predator Prey Paper
Ecology Terrarium Project: Study Of Ecosystem
The Bronfenbrenner Theory Essay
Environmental Science Essay
Ecology And Architecture Case Study
Population Ecology
The Importance Of Environmental Consciousness
Ecology And Evolution Reflection Paper
Essay about Deep Ecology
Ecological Restoration Essay
Essay on Ecology
The Importance Of Human Ecology
Essay On Ecological Imperialism
Ecology And The Climate Change
Themes Of Ecocriticism In Literature
How Ecology Is Being Affected by Climate Change
Ecology Personal Statement
Ecological Systems Theory Essay
Essay on Environmental Ethics
The Importance Of Human Ecology
Deep Ecology Essay
Sustainability And The Worlds Ecology
Essay about The Ecosystem of the Coral Reef
The Importance Of Deep Ecology
Ecology And Plant Ecology
Essay on Ecology
Environmental Science Essay
Population Ecology
The Bible And Ecology Essay
Ecology And Architecture Case Study
A Study On Aquatic Ecosystems
Ecology Personal Statement
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Slide show prepared for a series of lectures on environmentalism for PS 240 Introduction to Political Theory at the University of Kentucky, Fall 2007. Dr. Christopher S. Rice, Lecturer.
Designing food forests: fruit & nut tree guild handoutJoyce Hostyn
Looking for palettes for groups of species that work together interdependently to inspire your design of guilds (plant communities) for a food forest?
Featured guilds:
- eat your ornamentals
- native bounty
- urban orchard (apple & pear)
- nature's pharmacy
- medieval potager
- asian cooking herbal
- edible fence
- native nuts (black walnut, butternut, shagbark or shellbark hickory, chestnut or oak)
In Permaculture: A Designers Manual Bill Mollison says that "We ourselves are part of a guild of species that lie within and without our bodies. Aboriginal peoples and the Ayurvedic practitioners of ancient India have names for such guilds, or beings made up (as we are) of two or more species forming one organism. Most of nature is composed of groups of species working interdependently."
Guilding is a permaculture technique that learns from and works with the relationships in nature, especially in a forest system.
Unlike monocultures – a field of corn, a traditional apple orchard or a grass lawn – guilds are polycultures of diverse plants, insects and animals that support each other in a mini ecosystem. They’re designed around a primary food producing species (such as an apple tree) along with diverse, multi-functional support species to maximize the health and productivity of the guild. They produce a wide variety of useful products such as food, medicine, fibre, wood and dye.
By considering the whole plant community, – placing plants carefully in relation to each other in a way that facilitates interconnection and support rather than competition (for example, plants with different root systems such as shallow vs tap roots)
- Nitrogen fixing plants, along with species that supply phosphorus, potassium, calcium and other minerals, fertilize food producing plants
- Soil food web recycles plant debris to build healthy, moisture retentive soil
- Insectary plants attract beneficial predatory insects such as ladybugs, lacewings and predatory wasps as well as pollinators such as native bees that increase fruit and vegetable yield
- Strongly aromatic plants such as oregano, garlic, thyme and yarrow confuse pests, preventing them from discovering the plants they like to eat
- Diversity attracts a wide variety of bacteria, fungi, insects and birds to increase system health
- Dense layer of herbaceous and groundcover plants suppress unwanted species and protect the soil
Little Forests as Nature-Based Climate Solutions - Nature CanadaJoyce Hostyn
Little Forests are collaborations between plants, soil, organisms, land, climate, geology, & people. Disturbed land naturally returns to forest in 150 to 200 years. Because of the urgency of climate change, Dr. Akira Miyawaki designed a method that squeezes those 150 years into a 20-30 years.
What might a place where we park our car for an hour become?
What might a path, road, or active transport route become?
What might a parking lot become?
What might an apartment building become?
What might a school become?
What might a median become?
What might a front yard become?
What might our cities become?
Dr. Akira Miyawaki says that "Real forests made up of trees native to the area are three-dimensional, multi-layered communities having 30x the surface area of greenery of single-layered lawns, and have more than 30x the ability to protect against natural disasters and to conserve the environment."
Each of us is a node in a mycelial network of regeneration. Each little forest is a node in a mycelial network of regeneration.
Presented during "Learn How to Implement Nature Based Climate Solutions in your community" hosted by Nature Canada.
Can Kingston become a City in a Forest?Joyce Hostyn
Imagine it’s 2030. Every child can look out their window and see trees (and the many creatures these trees support). On even the hottest days they can walk or bike along a tree-lined street to play, visit birds or hug a tree in a nearby forest. 3-30-300 builds climate resilience for extreme heat events.
No Mow May: Support Multispecies ResurgenceJoyce Hostyn
Celebrate No Mow May by rewilding your lawn. Rewilding isn't about curb appeal. It's about soul appeal. Think of rewilding as an embodied land acknowledgement supporting multispecies resurgence.
In our yards, our parks and along our streets we plant lines of lonely trees. But a tree is not a forest. Lonely trees are severed from their ecological communities—at the mercy of wind, weather and disease. Rewilding with Little Forests re-enchants our yards and our city with biodiversity... what Robert MacFarlane calls “the wondrous, teeming, calamitously threatened variety & variability of life on Earth, sometimes measured by species richness.”
Re-enchanting our gardens and our citiesJoyce Hostyn
How, by rewilding, might we invite more wonder into our gardens? Our gardens are shared spaces, communities of beings. Who visits? Who doesn't? Why? What moments invite enchantment and wonder? This winter, start your rewilding journey by discovering the stories of the beings with whom you share your garden. We'll explore how rewilding might change who we become as gardeners.
Our beautiful wild pollinators need help! Support bees, butterflies and other pollinators by converting your lawn into a meadowscape or let your lawn grow wild!
Wildscaping: break up with your lawn, invite in the wild Joyce Hostyn
Climate change is forcing us to rethink our approach to gardening, our relationship with plants and how we belong to place. Our weather is becoming more variable with wetter springs, drier summers, colder winters and more extreme storms. Let’s adapt our gardening style for a changing climate, drawing inspiration from local landscapes and indigenous flora to create sustainable, resilient gardens that welcome wild beings into our cities.
Rip out your lawn and replace it with a food forest. How to design a nut or fruit tree guild. Includes planting palettes for a black walnut guild, native plant guild, asian inspired guild, medicinal guild, medieval guild, ornamental guild, apple guild, pear guild and apple guilds.
Slide show prepared for a series of lectures on environmentalism for PS 240 Introduction to Political Theory at the University of Kentucky, Fall 2007. Dr. Christopher S. Rice, Lecturer.
Similar to Introduction to Permaculture: part 1 (13)
Designing food forests: fruit & nut tree guild handoutJoyce Hostyn
Looking for palettes for groups of species that work together interdependently to inspire your design of guilds (plant communities) for a food forest?
Featured guilds:
- eat your ornamentals
- native bounty
- urban orchard (apple & pear)
- nature's pharmacy
- medieval potager
- asian cooking herbal
- edible fence
- native nuts (black walnut, butternut, shagbark or shellbark hickory, chestnut or oak)
In Permaculture: A Designers Manual Bill Mollison says that "We ourselves are part of a guild of species that lie within and without our bodies. Aboriginal peoples and the Ayurvedic practitioners of ancient India have names for such guilds, or beings made up (as we are) of two or more species forming one organism. Most of nature is composed of groups of species working interdependently."
Guilding is a permaculture technique that learns from and works with the relationships in nature, especially in a forest system.
Unlike monocultures – a field of corn, a traditional apple orchard or a grass lawn – guilds are polycultures of diverse plants, insects and animals that support each other in a mini ecosystem. They’re designed around a primary food producing species (such as an apple tree) along with diverse, multi-functional support species to maximize the health and productivity of the guild. They produce a wide variety of useful products such as food, medicine, fibre, wood and dye.
By considering the whole plant community, – placing plants carefully in relation to each other in a way that facilitates interconnection and support rather than competition (for example, plants with different root systems such as shallow vs tap roots)
- Nitrogen fixing plants, along with species that supply phosphorus, potassium, calcium and other minerals, fertilize food producing plants
- Soil food web recycles plant debris to build healthy, moisture retentive soil
- Insectary plants attract beneficial predatory insects such as ladybugs, lacewings and predatory wasps as well as pollinators such as native bees that increase fruit and vegetable yield
- Strongly aromatic plants such as oregano, garlic, thyme and yarrow confuse pests, preventing them from discovering the plants they like to eat
- Diversity attracts a wide variety of bacteria, fungi, insects and birds to increase system health
- Dense layer of herbaceous and groundcover plants suppress unwanted species and protect the soil
Little Forests as Nature-Based Climate Solutions - Nature CanadaJoyce Hostyn
Little Forests are collaborations between plants, soil, organisms, land, climate, geology, & people. Disturbed land naturally returns to forest in 150 to 200 years. Because of the urgency of climate change, Dr. Akira Miyawaki designed a method that squeezes those 150 years into a 20-30 years.
What might a place where we park our car for an hour become?
What might a path, road, or active transport route become?
What might a parking lot become?
What might an apartment building become?
What might a school become?
What might a median become?
What might a front yard become?
What might our cities become?
Dr. Akira Miyawaki says that "Real forests made up of trees native to the area are three-dimensional, multi-layered communities having 30x the surface area of greenery of single-layered lawns, and have more than 30x the ability to protect against natural disasters and to conserve the environment."
Each of us is a node in a mycelial network of regeneration. Each little forest is a node in a mycelial network of regeneration.
Presented during "Learn How to Implement Nature Based Climate Solutions in your community" hosted by Nature Canada.
Can Kingston become a City in a Forest?Joyce Hostyn
Imagine it’s 2030. Every child can look out their window and see trees (and the many creatures these trees support). On even the hottest days they can walk or bike along a tree-lined street to play, visit birds or hug a tree in a nearby forest. 3-30-300 builds climate resilience for extreme heat events.
No Mow May: Support Multispecies ResurgenceJoyce Hostyn
Celebrate No Mow May by rewilding your lawn. Rewilding isn't about curb appeal. It's about soul appeal. Think of rewilding as an embodied land acknowledgement supporting multispecies resurgence.
In our yards, our parks and along our streets we plant lines of lonely trees. But a tree is not a forest. Lonely trees are severed from their ecological communities—at the mercy of wind, weather and disease. Rewilding with Little Forests re-enchants our yards and our city with biodiversity... what Robert MacFarlane calls “the wondrous, teeming, calamitously threatened variety & variability of life on Earth, sometimes measured by species richness.”
Re-enchanting our gardens and our citiesJoyce Hostyn
How, by rewilding, might we invite more wonder into our gardens? Our gardens are shared spaces, communities of beings. Who visits? Who doesn't? Why? What moments invite enchantment and wonder? This winter, start your rewilding journey by discovering the stories of the beings with whom you share your garden. We'll explore how rewilding might change who we become as gardeners.
Our beautiful wild pollinators need help! Support bees, butterflies and other pollinators by converting your lawn into a meadowscape or let your lawn grow wild!
Wildscaping: break up with your lawn, invite in the wild Joyce Hostyn
Climate change is forcing us to rethink our approach to gardening, our relationship with plants and how we belong to place. Our weather is becoming more variable with wetter springs, drier summers, colder winters and more extreme storms. Let’s adapt our gardening style for a changing climate, drawing inspiration from local landscapes and indigenous flora to create sustainable, resilient gardens that welcome wild beings into our cities.
Rip out your lawn and replace it with a food forest. How to design a nut or fruit tree guild. Includes planting palettes for a black walnut guild, native plant guild, asian inspired guild, medicinal guild, medieval guild, ornamental guild, apple guild, pear guild and apple guilds.
Layering wildscapes: designing with plant communitiesJoyce Hostyn
When designing wildscapes, you need to think like a walnut, see like a squirrel, be like a bee and forage like a bird. Wildscapes replicate the layered structure of wild ecosystems to maximize biodiversity, habitat, resilience & beauty.
We now know that our century long quest for the perfect lawn is contributing to our climate emergency. It's time to reimagine curb appeal. Natural climate solutions offer immense possibility for helping Kingston achieve its strategic goals. Presentation to Kingston's EITP Committee.
Forest this being is: becoming forest stewards in a changing climateJoyce Hostyn
As gardeners, we've been colonized. We plant lonely trees, pines in lines and cookie cutter landscapes. How can we rewild ourselves and our approach to gardening? How can we learn to see forests as beings? How can we become forest stewards in a time of climate change?
how to design an edible landscape: unleash your inner gardenerJoyce Hostyn
Whether you have a tiny yard or a large lot, you can have a beautiful garden and eat it too! Edible landscapes filled with trees, shrubs, berries and perennial vegetables are a beautiful, sustainable method of growing food for yourself, increasing biodiversity, and attracting birds.
How to design a beautiful edible forest gardenJoyce Hostyn
Whether you have a small space or a large lot, you can have a beautiful garden and eat it too. Edible forest gardens mimic natural forests, but edibles are prioritized in plant selection. They're a natural, sustainable method of growing food for yourself, providing a habitat for wildlife and beautifying your home.
How to design a beautiful garden that attracts birds Joyce Hostyn
“Birds are good ecological indicators. If you have a diverse native bird population, it’s a sign that the ecosystem as a whole is healthy.” Convert your lawn to a beautiful, bird friendly garden. Biodiverse gardens provide the food niches, nesting sites, shelter, water, and safety that our native birds (and insects) need.
Design for dreams not needs: who do you want your customers to become?Joyce Hostyn
Who do you want your customer to become? Who do you want your coworkers, your organization, your employees, your children, your community, your country, the world to become? What gifts do you have? What gifts do they (those you are designing for) have? To answer these questions well is to discover your own dream. To answer these questions well is to uncover the dreams of those you are designing for.
Who do I want you to become? Someone who dreams beautiful dreams. Someone who helps others dream beautiful dreams. Someone who designs for dreams.
For it is through beautiful dreams that we will create more beautiful organizations, communities, and the more beautiful world our hearts know is possible.
Despite spending vast amounts of time and money on employee engagement, engagement metrics remain stagnant. What if, instead of obsessing about how to increase employee engagement, how to improve and position your employer brand, or how to fight the war for talent, you instead put serious effort into thinking about how to improve and position your employees?
the art of creativity: asking provocative questionsJoyce Hostyn
Since we live in the world our questions create, "the most interesting thing you can do in life... is to call into question the rules of the game.” Questions make the impossible possible, help the unknown become known, and transform paradigms. To transform yourself, transform your organization, or transform the world learn the art of asking provocative questions.
Can we design organizations for beauty?Joyce Hostyn
The future is ours to imagine, design and create. And if we’re dreaming the future into being, why not dream of a future where business is beautiful. Where business delivers the promise of happiness. Where business is an incredible force for positive change in the world.
Employee Communities: Community Centric ChangeJoyce Hostyn
Customer Experience starts with the employee experience, but changing the employee experience can be very difficult. Most change methods are still based on an outdated top-down rational view of organizational change. How can we rewire organizational DNA to create great customer experiences? How can we shift the hearts, minds and behaviors of every employee? These are the questions we're wresting with as we rethink our approach to employee experience. Our new strategy is centered on an employee community of peers that we are promoting through internal content marketing. It might be working. Presented at CXPA Members Insight Exchange.
UNDERSTANDING WHAT GREEN WASHING IS!.pdfJulietMogola
Many companies today use green washing to lure the public into thinking they are conserving the environment but in real sense they are doing more harm. There have been such several cases from very big companies here in Kenya and also globally. This ranges from various sectors from manufacturing and goes to consumer products. Educating people on greenwashing will enable people to make better choices based on their analysis and not on what they see on marketing sites.
WRI’s brand new “Food Service Playbook for Promoting Sustainable Food Choices” gives food service operators the very latest strategies for creating dining environments that empower consumers to choose sustainable, plant-rich dishes. This research builds off our first guide for food service, now with industry experience and insights from nearly 350 academic trials.
Diabetes is a rapidly and serious health problem in Pakistan. This chronic condition is associated with serious long-term complications, including higher risk of heart disease and stroke. Aggressive treatment of hypertension and hyperlipideamia can result in a substantial reduction in cardiovascular events in patients with diabetes 1. Consequently pharmacist-led diabetes cardiovascular risk (DCVR) clinics have been established in both primary and secondary care sites in NHS Lothian during the past five years. An audit of the pharmaceutical care delivery at the clinics was conducted in order to evaluate practice and to standardize the pharmacists’ documentation of outcomes. Pharmaceutical care issues (PCI) and patient details were collected both prospectively and retrospectively from three DCVR clinics. The PCI`s were categorized according to a triangularised system consisting of multiple categories. These were ‘checks’, ‘changes’ (‘change in drug therapy process’ and ‘change in drug therapy’), ‘drug therapy problems’ and ‘quality assurance descriptors’ (‘timer perspective’ and ‘degree of change’). A verified medication assessment tool (MAT) for patients with chronic cardiovascular disease was applied to the patients from one of the clinics. The tool was used to quantify PCI`s and pharmacist actions that were centered on implementing or enforcing clinical guideline standards. A database was developed to be used as an assessment tool and to standardize the documentation of achievement of outcomes. Feedback on the audit of the pharmaceutical care delivery and the database was received from the DCVR clinic pharmacist at a focus group meeting.
Micro RNA genes and their likely influence in rice (Oryza sativa L.) dynamic ...Open Access Research Paper
Micro RNAs (miRNAs) are small non-coding RNAs molecules having approximately 18-25 nucleotides, they are present in both plants and animals genomes. MiRNAs have diverse spatial expression patterns and regulate various developmental metabolisms, stress responses and other physiological processes. The dynamic gene expression playing major roles in phenotypic differences in organisms are believed to be controlled by miRNAs. Mutations in regions of regulatory factors, such as miRNA genes or transcription factors (TF) necessitated by dynamic environmental factors or pathogen infections, have tremendous effects on structure and expression of genes. The resultant novel gene products presents potential explanations for constant evolving desirable traits that have long been bred using conventional means, biotechnology or genetic engineering. Rice grain quality, yield, disease tolerance, climate-resilience and palatability properties are not exceptional to miRN Asmutations effects. There are new insights courtesy of high-throughput sequencing and improved proteomic techniques that organisms’ complexity and adaptations are highly contributed by miRNAs containing regulatory networks. This article aims to expound on how rice miRNAs could be driving evolution of traits and highlight the latest miRNA research progress. Moreover, the review accentuates miRNAs grey areas to be addressed and gives recommendations for further studies.
Artificial Reefs by Kuddle Life Foundation - May 2024punit537210
Situated in Pondicherry, India, Kuddle Life Foundation is a charitable, non-profit and non-governmental organization (NGO) dedicated to improving the living standards of coastal communities and simultaneously placing a strong emphasis on the protection of marine ecosystems.
One of the key areas we work in is Artificial Reefs. This presentation captures our journey so far and our learnings. We hope you get as excited about marine conservation and artificial reefs as we are.
Please visit our website: https://kuddlelife.org
Our Instagram channel:
@kuddlelifefoundation
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and write to us if you have any questions:
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Characterization and the Kinetics of drying at the drying oven and with micro...Open Access Research Paper
The objective of this work is to contribute to valorization de Nephelium lappaceum by the characterization of kinetics of drying of seeds of Nephelium lappaceum. The seeds were dehydrated until a constant mass respectively in a drying oven and a microwawe oven. The temperatures and the powers of drying are respectively: 50, 60 and 70°C and 140, 280 and 420 W. The results show that the curves of drying of seeds of Nephelium lappaceum do not present a phase of constant kinetics. The coefficients of diffusion vary between 2.09.10-8 to 2.98. 10-8m-2/s in the interval of 50°C at 70°C and between 4.83×10-07 at 9.04×10-07 m-8/s for the powers going of 140 W with 420 W the relation between Arrhenius and a value of energy of activation of 16.49 kJ. mol-1 expressed the effect of the temperature on effective diffusivity.
Natural farming @ Dr. Siddhartha S. Jena.pptxsidjena70
A brief about organic farming/ Natural farming/ Zero budget natural farming/ Subash Palekar Natural farming which keeps us and environment safe and healthy. Next gen Agricultural practices of chemical free farming.
6. In many
ways, the
environmental crisis
is a design crisis. It is a
consequence of how
things are made, buildings
are constructed, and
landscapes are used.
Sim Van Der Ryn & Stuart
Cowan
8. Defined as
the “shaping of
matter, energy, and
process . . . a hinge that
connects culture and nature
through exchanges of
materials, flows of energy,
and choices of land use,”
design is all around us.
Sim Van Der Ryn and Stuart
Cowan
9. Differing Worldviews, Rebecca Martusewicz et al. 2021
Design
manifests culture,
and culture rests
firmly on the
foundation of what we
believe to be true
about the world.
Sim Van Der Ryn &
Stuart Cowan
10. Differing Worldviews, Rebecca Martusewicz et al. 2021
We need to realize
that this is a world of
relationship, of an ethics of
care, and of love. It is
Indigenous wisdom, Indigenous
people, who are standing,
defending the rights of nature
to coexist with humanity.
Anne Poelina is a Nyikina Warrwa
Traditional Custodian from the
Mardoowarra, lower Fitzroy River, in
Western Australia
11.
12. It really struck me
being in an agriculture
faculty in a major university
there was no teaching about
design. Design was taken as
given. Which was monoculture or
very very simple rotations based
on inputs and extractions and
no attention to maintenance
of the system.
Stuart Hill
13. natural
farming’s true
benefits requires
us “to become
partners again with
other forms of
life”
Larry Korn
A farmer
does not grow
something in the
sense that they create
it. That human is only a
small part of the whole
process by which
Nature expresses its
being.
Masanobu Fukuoka
14. Our world
is made of systems
within systems, an
interconnected web of life more
complex than humanity has the
capacity to grasp all at once.
It took me ages to realise that design was
the main subject and that network science
was the key to it all. My background in
agricultural and environmental science
and horticulture helped me to make
sense of it at a deeper level. It was
very attractive because it put all
these in the same frame.
Rosemary Morrow
Earth Restoration, Rosemary Morrow
15. A basic
question that can
be asked in two ways is:
"What can I get from this
land, or person?" or "What
does this person, or land, have
to give if I cooperate with
them?" Of these two
approaches, the former leads
to war and waste, the
latter to peace and
plenty.
Bill Mollison
16. As a system based on
cooperation and solidarity
among humans and non-human
nature, permaculture offers a radical
reimagination of the possible — a
philosophy and set of practices based on
cooperation, co-creation, and solidarity
not just between humans but with extra-
human nature… Permaculture teaches
that the norm within healthy ecosystems
is that animals, plants, fungi, and
bacteria form co-operative – not
competitive — relationships with
one another.
Rebecca Ellis
17. David Holmgren, Permaculture Flower
Permaculture offers a
radical approach to food
production and urban renewal,
water, energy and pollution. It
integrates ecology, landscape,
organic gardening, architecture and
agro-forestry in creating a rich and
sustainable way of living. It uses
appropriate technology giving high
yields for low energy inputs, achieving
a resource of great diversity and
stability. The design principles are
equally applicable to both
urban and rural dwellers.
Bill Mollison
20. While
[regenerative
agriculture and
permaculture] both borrow
practices from Indigenous
cultures, critically, they leave
out our world views and
continue the pattern of
erasing our history and
contributions to the
modern world.
Whitewashed Hope
thisismold.com/event/education/indigenous-leaders-why-regenerative-agriculture-is-not-enough
The Honorable Harvest, Robin Wall Kimmerer
21. But what are soils’
needs though? It depends on
how we interpret the meaning of
soil. If we see it as a crop producer,
then what it needs is the ingredients for
production, that is, chemical fertilizers or
organic compost. But if we see it as a web of
relationality, then what it needs is the
interconnectedness among beings that makes
soil, soil. In other words, what soil is or
becomes is what soil needs, which would
have to be understood through our
conversations with soil, and these
conversations will also help us
understand what humanity is
and what humans really
need.
Zhuonan Liu
Zhuonan Liu, Environmental Ethics and Permaculture: Can Permaculture Heal Our Relations to Soil?
22. Through design we have
the opportunity to participate in
this relationship with nature by
applying the ethics we hold toward the
earth as a whole, or macrocosm, to our given
site, or microcosm. When these ethics are applied
correctly, the design, once realized, is synaesthetic,
eliciting a sensory response from its human
occupants. Nature responds to the human input by
taking on certain forms (growth). Humans respond to
nature’s input by experiencing joy and a heightened
awareness (growth). When this level of interaction with
nature is achieved, human intervention is not so
apparent, and appears to be ‘naturally’ occurring.
Examples of this are visible in the habitats of many
Indigenous peoples who are truly ‘one’ with their
environment. The degree of beauty inherent
in functional design is evidence of how
closely connected the designer is
with nature.
Patty Ceglia
23. As a system
based on
cooperation and
solidarity among humans
and non-human nature,
permaculture offers a
radical reimagination
of the possible
Rebecca Ellis
La Ferme du Bec Hellouin