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Forging Permaculture Hand Tools: Part 3
I’d like to share with you my three favourite tools to use in the garden. These tools are used the most often and get the most work done in the shortest time. Generally I prefer hand tools to powered ones because they’re quiet, they don’t emit noxious fumes, and I can work up a sweat.
On the Relation between Designing and Implementing in Permaculture – Part 2
Though the high-level side-by-side comparisons I shared in the last post have their place, it would feel inappropriate to reduce each of the design process treatments we looked at in the last post to only one column in a table.
On the Relation between Designing and Implementing in Permaculture – Part 1
In this second Making Permaculture Stronger inquiry, I consider the relationship between designing and implementing within current understandings of permaculture design process.
Conclusion to Inquiry Circuit # 1
The focus of this initial circuit has been the popular practice of defining permaculture design as, above all else, a process of assembling elements into whole systems.
Testing a Different(iation) Approach to Permaculture Design Process – Part One: Introductory
With this post we enter the home straight of our first inquiry circuit into a weak link in conventional definitions and understandings of permaculture design process.
Christopher Alexander’s Challenge meets Darren J. Doherty’s Design Process: More Thoughts
This two-part series is part of a larger inquiry that started when we accepted Alexander’s challenge. Accepting this challenge means giving Alexander’s living process perspective2 serious attention towards any value it might offer permaculture.
The Decline may not be Permacultured, Part 2
In which I suggest why permaculture designers might be their own worst enemy.
Storing Heat Underground in a Geosolar System
As an engineer and permaculture designer living in a cold-climate, I am particularly fascinated with the interplay between thermodynamics and design and with capturing “waste” energy and finding novel, inexpensive and efficient ways to store and/or recapture and re-use it. One of these such systems, is geothermal storage.
Christopher Alexander’s Challenge meets Darren J. Doherty’s Design Process
This post continues and deepens an inquiry into two contrasting understandings of design process.
Urban Swales Part 2: Construction, Spillways & Catchbasins
This second video in the urban swales series looks at permaculture design with water as the primary consideration.
The Exceptional Case of Dave Jacke & Edible Forest Gardens
Dave Jacke has contributed the most comprehensive, conscious and clear treatment of sound design process yet seen in the permaculture literature.