Permaculture Reflections

Learn sustainable design

Design Fundamentals I

Your core design skills

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Who this course is for

If you want to have a clear and concise design process to help you create sustainable systems, this course show you how. This course is suitable for all levels.

The design process covered in this course is deceptively simple, and is where most designers — professional and amateur alike — make their biggest mistakes.

What’s in the course?

This is part I our free Design Fundamentals course. This course covers:

  • The overall design process
  • Designing around available energy and resources

You’ll also receive our Permaculture Design Cheat Sheet in lesson 5.

Why this course?

This course has a completion rate 600% higher than the industry standard. We put our effort into presenting the concepts clearly and concisely so that you can learn quickly and apply these approaches right away.

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Course fee: $0

Course Information

Estimated Time: 30 ~ 45 minutes

Author Information

Douglas Barnes

I'm a sustainable designer. I live in the countryside in Tweed, Ontario after calling different parts of Ontario and Japan home.

 

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Before We Start

Definitions

This lesson deals with the definition of sustainability and permaculture.

The Fundamentals of Design

Design Fundamentals

This slideshow will take you through the core elements of the design process.
Recap of the Design Process

How important are the basics? Important enough to review!
More on Sectors

A closer look on the technique of creating a sector map.
In the Zone

Designing with zones is designing action around energy, not energy around action.
See you in part II

Here’s what’s coming next…

Comments

  1. I own/manage a 96 acre farm 50 km. east of Ottawa, Ontario. My family has lived here for 40 years and the property is pesticide/herbicide/commercial fertilizer free for the past 25 years. Until 10 years ago we grew a combination of cattle(cow calf), ducks, Chickens, pigs and a small garden. Twenty years ago we made a 10 acre wetland in a bog area; and a three acre pond in a dry area near one of our 4 barns.Seven years ago we planted 10,000 trees on any marginal land. There are 2 rain fed streams and 1 spring-fed stream. I am going to develop a permaculture system on the farm.

    • Tremendous. Please let us know how you get on. What were up and any downsides.

      I look forward to it.