Designing For LIGHT At Every Level – Patterns For Incorporating Natural Light Into The Built Environment ~Epi-077
Light is an essential human nutrient. So much of our modern built environment is built without regard to orienting and integrating natural light, and our health – physical, mental, spiritual, emotional and communal – suffers for it. The good news is that you can design your structures (or retrofit them) to bring natural light back…
Zone 0 Pattern Language Fundamentals – Designing Your Permaculture Kitchen ~Epi-076
Join me today as we discuss designing functional kitchen spaces that people want to be in. Lots of people are inheriting kitchens designed more for magazine covers than for function – and where there is a lack of function there is a concommitant increase in friction, which means more stress and less joy. Kitchens are the…
036 – Living With Fire (Part 4): Integrating Fire Into Daily Life (Again)
What if we chose to view nature’s gift of annually-replenishing fixed carbon sources (i.e. brush, forests etc) in high-fire danger areas as an opportunity to harmonize with the annual carbon cycle instead of as a nuisance to be combated? Could we improve home safety in the urban-wildland edge and take steps towards living within our…
035 – Living With Fire – Part 3 – Home Construction & Retrofitting For Fire Survivability
In today’s show we continued with the Living With Fire series in Part 3 – all about fire-proof or at least fire-wise home construction and home refit suggestions to increase fire survivability. Its all simple – some steps are easy and cheap, some are not. We will cover… Fire Proof Building Materials – stone,…
Lessons From 3 Years Of Tent Life ~Epi-015
Today we are discussing lessons learned from living in a canvas wall tent for 3 years on a permaculture farm. I am joined by my partner in love and life, Samantha Davis, for a trip down memory lane as we share the pros, cons and lessons learned from three years of tent-life and living pretty…
TSHP-002: The Prime Directive, 3 Ethics and 12 Foundational Principles of Permaculture As Sovereign Homestead Design Tools
Permaculture is a design system based on natural systems and how they function. The Permaculture Prime Directive – on page 1 in the Designer’s Manual, is as follows: “The only ethical decision is to take responsibility for our own existence and that of our children. Make it now.” The Prime Directive is often forgotten but…
