Permaculture's Three Ethics

Care of the Earth
The condition of the soil under our feet and our stewardship, is the best measure of how we are managing.

Care of People
The true well being of ourselves, our kin and community is the best indicator of how we are going.

Fair Share
Celebrate nature’s abundance,
Accept her limits and
Distribute the surplus.
Get your head around both, at the same time.



Applying Design Principles to Activism:

Using design principles to frame and choose aphorisms for the next generation of practitioners, teachers and activists.

Design Principles are very powerful thinking tools that we can use well beyond the garden and the farm. We can test our understanding of them, by applying them to familiar subjects where we have substantial experience and gut feelings about what’s appropriate and what’s not. If we can make the match when we are on solid ground, then we have a better chance of using these thinking tools in novel situations when the ground shifts. In the process we learn how to better articulate the principles in ways that make common sense.