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Permaculture
What is PermaCulture ?
„Permaculture“ is sustainable land use design. This is based on ecological and biological principles, often using patterns that occur in nature to maximise effect and minimise work. Permaculture aims to create stable, productive systems that provide for human needs, harmoniously integrating the land with its inhabitants. The ecological processes of plants, animals, their nutrient cycles, climatic factors and weather cycles are all part of the picture. Inhabitants’ needs are provided for using proven technologies for food, energy, shelter and infrastructure. Elements in a system are viewed in relationship to other elements, where the outputs of one element become the inputs of another. Within a Permaculture system, work is minimised, “wastes” become resources, productivity and yields increase, and environments are restored. Permaculture principles can be applied to any environment, at any scale from dense urban settlements to individual homes, from farms to entire regions.
The intent is that, by training individuals in a core set of design principles, those individuals can design their own environments and build increasingly self-sufficient human settlements — ones that reduce society's reliance on industrial systems of production and distribution that Mollison identified as fundamentally and systematically destroying Earth's ecosystems.
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Why PermaCulture
Working with the sun, the wind, the rain, the soil, and our own human love and ingenuity, will allow us to create sustainable or permanent-cultures, hence the word 'permaculture'. Fighting these forces requires excess time, money and vast amounts of energy from the burning of non-renewable resources (coal, oil, gas), the very resources that all future generations are entitled to, but that we will almost certainly consume in the next 50 years should we continue on as we have over the last 3-4 generations. More specifically, permaculture explores practical ways to improve the quality of our lives by re-thinking or re-designing our relationship to:
1. The land around us -- and how we care for it while providing our food, fiber , medicines and other needs.
2. Our homes -- how we design and build them for optimum joy and use.
3. The energy we use -- why we use it, how we use it, and how we generate it.
4. Our work -- does it reflects who we truly are? Is our work of true service to anyone or anything? Have we found 'right livelihood' and/or meaningful work.
5. Each other -- have we created meaningful lives with our families and communities.
6. Ourselves - are we living from an authentic experience of self.
For children we offer popular items such as spaghetti, chicken nuggets and ice cream.
In addition to the typical Thai beverages there are Geman beers on the menu.
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Save our Planet
Many permaculturists are concerned about their relationship with others (all others) and the planet. It is our belief that it is possible to design, or re-design our lives, to provide an abundance of food, fiber, energy & shelter for every person on this planet while dramatically improving everyone’s overall quality of life.
In addition, we know it is possible to do this without consuming the natural resources that all future generations are entitled to have access to. And we can do it without the pollution associated with our current way of living.
Sound idealistic? Seem improbable - even naive? Maybe so. But it is, none-the-less, a possibility, a choice, that we as humans can move towards. Our part as individuals is to start from where we are at, from where we live, and from how we live. We don’t believe it is the intention or desire of most who are adopting a permaculture approach to life to tear anything down. Non-sustainable systems will naturally fall by the wayside as they become irrelevant.
Permaculturists are simply choosing to put their energy into discovering ways of living that are more sustainable and authentically in tune with the abundant and natural resources that surround them: – the wind, the rain, the sun, the soil... and human love & ingenuity.
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