CARE OF THE EARTH

Provision for all life systems to continue and multiply

CARE OF PEOPLE

Provision for people too access those resources necessary to their existence

CONSUME WITH LIMITS

By governing our own needs, we can set resources aside to further the above principles

‘For the sake of the earth itself, I evolved a philosophy close to Taoism from my experiences with natural systems… it is a philosophy of working with rather than against nature; of protracted and thoughtful observation rather than protracted and thoughtless action; of looking at systems and people in all their functions, rather than asking only one yield of them; and of allowing systems to demonstrate their own evolutions.’

At the heart of permaculture design is beneficiary design, a design mentality to promote cooperative models among systems. The same concept can be applied in field beyond the study of permaculture.