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Permaculture is based upon three ethics and 12 principles that can be applied to virtually any system.  Once you have a basic understanding, you can apply these concepts to any given situation. 

 

Permaculture Concept Cards

#1- Observe and interact – harmonious relationship between nature and people.

• Farm for the Future
• BBC- How Plants Communicate and Think
• What Plants Talk about
• Body Language Documentary
• Inhabit
• The Secret Life of Plants

#2- Catch and store energy – focus on building healthy living soil–

• Dirt, the Movie

#3- Obtain a yield – design systems for self reliance- planting food forests with diminishing energy inputs maximizing future outputs–(our most favorite hopeful films for the future!)

• Greening the Desert and 3 clips of food Forests 
• Growing food in the desert
• How to Green desert
• Rehabilitating degraded land
• Green Gold  

#4- Apply self-regulation and accept feedback – designing self-reliant and energy efficient systems.

• The Coconut Revolution
• From the Heart of the World, Elder Brother’s Warning

#5- Use and value renewable resources and services -think of our children; ahead seven generations

• Gasland & The Sky is Pink (make sure you get the real Josh Fox videos, not the gas industry’s hit pieces from buying his name on Google)
• Flow, For the Love of Water- on Water Privatization

#6- Produce no waste – value frugality, reduce, refuse, and reuse, before recycling

• The Story of Stuff– and other short films in Annie Leonard’s Story of Stuff Project

#7- Design from patterns to details – observing and using patterns from nature

• Permaculture 101 – start here, and look for more from Geoff Lawton 
• Part 2 The spiral – inner worlds outer worlds

#8- Integrate rather than segregate – valuing and utilizing connections

• The Magical Forest

#9-Use small and slow solutions – designing to highest purpose with minimal output

• The Man Who Planted Trees

 #10- Use and value diversity- providing insurance against the vagaries of nature and everyday life

• The World According to Monsanto
• Seeds of Death
• Food Inc.

#11- Use edges and value the marginal – expansion of the edges increases system productivity and sustainability

• Ayurveda
• For the Next Seven Generations
• For the next 7 generations on vimeo

#12- Creatively use and respond to change – envision and create the future

• The Power of Community
• Edible City, Grow the Revolution
• The Story of Solutions
• In transition 2.0

Bill Mollison’s Permaculture courses (reasonably priced) tps://www.tagari.com