Inspirational Permaculture Ideas- Tools and Techniques for Sustainable Modern Living

Peter Cow, 2011

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!

Part One – Ideas for the Home

The Hay Box Cooker

Draught Busting Events and Eco Home Tours

Energy Usage Monitors

To build your own monitor- visitwww.OpenEnergyMonitor.org

Use computers to record and analyse your usage

DIY Double Glazing

Clingfilm, tape and a hair dryer...

Rainwater Collection from Drainpipes

Thermal Mass Rocket Stoves

Treebogs

And see ways to reduce it...

Measure your Eco Footprint

http://www.cat.org.uk/carbongym/

http://myfootprint.org/en/

Part Two – Feeding Ourselves

Wild Food -a few favourites

Lime tree leaves

Nettles - crushed and eaten raw,or steamed/boiled in soups.

Perennial Vegetables

Egyptian Tree Onions

Daubentons perennial

kale

GlobeArtichokes

To learn more, and find seed suppliers visit – Earth Abbey or Plants for a Future

Forest Gardening

For information and seeds/plants/books -www.agroforestry.co.uk/

Mulching

Sprouting

Permaculture Zoning - where to place things

DIY Rodent Proof Tyre Wormery

DIY - Slide Show

Comfrey for Mulching and Liquid Feeds

Potato Tyres and Strawberry Towers

Grow vertical...

Part Three – Permaculture in Person

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?

Mind Mapping

FreeMind – open source mindmapping software

The Work That Reconnects

Eat More Salad

WWOOFing

Sit Spot

Mentoring, Apprenticeships and Life Coaching

Ceremony and Celebration

Part Four – Permaculture in Computers

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

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

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

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.

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