This document provides inspiration for sustainable living techniques through permaculture design principles. It discusses ideas for the home like hay box cookers, energy usage monitors, and DIY double glazing. For feeding ourselves, it explores wild foods, perennial vegetables, forest gardening and mulching. The document also discusses permaculture zoning, comfrey for mulching, and potato tyres/strawberry towers. It recommends free and open source software, websites for travel and permaculture networking, and encourages learning, experimenting and recreating community through sustainable practices.

1. Inspirational Permaculture Ideas
- Tools and Techniques for Sustainable Modern Living
Peter Cow, 2011

2. NB. Permaculture is a universally applicable sustainable design system,
which develops positive win-win ecological and social solutions.
It is not a set collection of techniques, nor is it just about gardening...
We can use it to design what is optimum for each unique situation,
so these slides sre for inspiration, not prescription.
Work out what is best for your situation, dream, experiment, design,
create new techniques and ideas...and share them with the rest of us!

3. Part One – Ideas for the Home

4. The Hay Box Cooker

5. Draught Busting Events and Eco Home Tours

6. Energy Usage Monitors
Use computers to
record and analyse
your usage
To build your own monitor- visit
www.OpenEnergyMonitor.org

7. DIY Double Glazing
Clingfilm, tape and a hair dryer...

8. Rainwater Collection from Drainpipes

9. Thermal Mass Rocket Stoves

10. Treebogs

11. Measure your Eco Footprint
http://www.cat.org.uk/carbongym/
http://myfootprint.org/en/
And see ways to reduce it...

12. Part Two – Feeding Ourselves

13. Wild Food -a few favourites
Lime tree leaves
Nettles - crushed and eaten raw,
or steamed/boiled in soups.

14. Perennial Vegetables
Daubentons
perennial
kale
Egyptian Tree Onions
Globe
Artichokes
To learn more, and find seed suppliers visit –
Earth Abbey or Plants for a Future

15. Forest Gardening
For information and seeds/plants/books -
www.agroforestry.co.uk/

16. Mulching

17. Sprouting

18. Permaculture Zoning - where to place things

19. DIY Rodent Proof Tyre Wormery
DIY - Slide Show

20. Comfrey for Mulching and Liquid Feeds

21. Potato Tyres and Strawberry Towers
Grow vertical...

22. Part Three – Permaculture in Person

23. Four Questions Exercise
What's going well?
What's challenging?
What are my long term
visions and goals?
What are my next
achievable steps
towards them?

24. Mind Mapping
FreeMind – open source
mindmapping software

25. The Work That Reconnects

26. Eat More Salad

27. WWOOFing

28. Sit Spot

29. Mentoring, Apprenticeships and Life Coaching

30. Ceremony and Celebration

31. Part Four – Permaculture in Computers

32. Free and Effective Open Source Software
Want an advert free internet?
try Mozilla Firefox
With the Adblock add-on
VLC Media Player
For writing, presentations,
and spreadsheets try
Open Office
Free and Easy Mindmaps
with FreeMind

33. Free and Easy Website Creation
Create your own website to record and publicise designs, thoughts, events and photos
using a powerful open source web based blogging program such as WordPress

34. For cheap and friendly travel go
CouchSurfing
Internet Treasures
Sustainable World Radio
Podcast
Permies.com
TED - Videos and podcasts from
the conference at the cutting
edge of... everything
UK Permaculture Association Global Permaculture Network

35. This is only the tip of the iceberg, a blurred speed
dating of some of the flavours of our resilient, possible,
sustainable, positive futures - this slide show could go
on for days...
Click the links to find out more - learn, experiment, play,
co-create, make your own slide show, make a wiki,
recreate community, enjoy life and pick fruit.

36. With Thanks to -
Hannah Thorogood
Aranya
Graham Burnett
David Holmgren
Hedvig Murray
And countless others whose work and photos I foraged off Google Images
www.livingincircles.com
Peter Cow
2011