some inspirational permaculture ideas for sustainable living
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A tour through some sustainable living ideas for home, table, garden, person and computer, inspired by Permaculture Design.TRANSCRIPT
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Inspirational Permaculture Ideas- Tools and Techniques for Sustainable Modern Living
Peter Cow, 2011
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NB. Permaculture is a universally applicable sustainable design system, which develops positive win-win ecological and social solutions.
It is not a set collection of techniques, nor is it just about gardening...
We can use it to design what is optimum for each unique situation, so these slides sre for inspiration, not prescription.
Work out what is best for your situation, dream, experiment, design, create new techniques and ideas...and share them with the rest of us!
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Part One – Ideas for the Home
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The Hay Box Cooker
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Draught Busting Events and Eco Home Tours
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Energy Usage Monitors
To build your own monitor- visitwww.OpenEnergyMonitor.org
Use computers to record and analyse your usage
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DIY Double Glazing
Clingfilm, tape and a hair dryer...
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Rainwater Collection from Drainpipes
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Thermal Mass Rocket Stoves
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Treebogs
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And see ways to reduce it...
Measure your Eco Footprint
http://www.cat.org.uk/carbongym/
http://myfootprint.org/en/
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Part Two – Feeding Ourselves
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Wild Food -a few favourites
Lime tree leaves
Nettles - crushed and eaten raw,or steamed/boiled in soups.
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Perennial Vegetables
Egyptian Tree Onions
Daubentons perennial
kale
GlobeArtichokes
To learn more, and find seed suppliers visit – Earth Abbey or Plants for a Future
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Forest Gardening
For information and seeds/plants/books -www.agroforestry.co.uk/
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Mulching
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Sprouting
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Permaculture Zoning - where to place things
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DIY Rodent Proof Tyre Wormery
DIY - Slide Show
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Comfrey for Mulching and Liquid Feeds
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Potato Tyres and Strawberry Towers
Grow vertical...
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Part Three – Permaculture in Person
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What are my long term visions and goals?
Four Questions Exercise
What's going well?
What's challenging?
What are my next achievable steps
towards them?
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Mind Mapping
FreeMind – open source mindmapping software
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Eat More Salad
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WWOOFing
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Mentoring, Apprenticeships and Life Coaching
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Ceremony and Celebration
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Part Four – Permaculture in Computers
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Free and Effective Open Source Software
For writing, presentations, and spreadsheets try
Open Office
Want an advert free internet? try Mozilla Firefox
With the Adblock add-on
Free and Easy Mindmaps with FreeMind
VLC Media Player
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Free and Easy Website Creation
Create your own website to record and publicise designs, thoughts, events and photos using a powerful open source web based blogging program such as WordPress
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Internet Treasures
For cheap and friendly travel goCouchSurfing
TED - Videos and podcasts fromthe conference at the cutting
edge of... everything
UK Permaculture Association Global Permaculture Network
Sustainable World Radio PodcastPermies.com
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This is only the tip of the iceberg, a blurred speed dating of some of the flavours of our resilient, possible, sustainable, positive futures - this slide show could go on for days...
Click the links to find out more - learn, experiment, play, co-create, make your own slide show, make a wiki, recreate community, enjoy life and pick fruit.
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With Thanks to -Hannah ThorogoodAranyaGraham BurnettDavid HolmgrenHedvig Murray
And countless others whose work and photos I foraged off Google Images
www.livingincircles.com
Peter Cow 2011