Permabyte: Core Concepts - Prime Directive, Ethics, and Principles

This brings us to the next portion of the Permaculture Design Course with the very core ideas of permaculture: The Prime Directive, Ethics, and Principles that make permaculture permaculture. The Prime Directive, from Mollison, states: "The only ethical decisions is to take responsibility for our own existence and that of our children." From there we move into the Ethics:

• Earth Care
• People Care
• Fair Share

This time around, I present the Principles differently from those presented by Holmgren and others.  10 Principles in total are covered:

• Whole System
• Observation
• Soil
• Diversity
• 4-Dimensional Design
• Relative Location
• Planning Tools
• Scale
• Yields
• Energy

For this episode, my primary resources were: Permaculture: A Designers' Manual by Bill Mollion Teaching Permaculture Creatively by Skye and Robin Clayfield The Earth Care Manual by Patrick Whiefield