permaculture

["Dick Pierce" <dickpiercedesigns@gmail.com>]

Sustainability:

           a couple of entries from my list of definitions.....

           - Leave it better than you found it.

           - Pick up after yourself.

           - Think of others - humans, beings, all living things

           - Base decisions on their impact for Seven Generations

           - A positive balance in Nature's energy accounts at the end of a
cycle - month,
             season, year, lifetime, 7 generations. [analogy is your bank
account balance]

                          -Air/Water are cleaner          -More Water
supply/storage
                          -More/better Soil                  -Soil Food Web
more prosperous
                          -Biomass is increasing         -More Diversity
                          -Less Pollution/Waste          -More Efficient
Resource Use
                          -Zero poisons/toxins             -More
Community/Family

            - Adapt ourselves to Nature's rules/play-book/bounty

                          -Use Local Resources          -Take just what you
need
                          -Everyone gets firsts, first     -Cooperate with
Nature/others
                          -Live in Cycles - like Nature  -Every output is an
input
                          -Expect/work toward joy and abundance with less
work

Dick Pierce

On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 2:03 AM, steveread <steveread@free.fr> wrote:

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> I have found that there are vanishingly few people who can define
> sustainable, even those working for a really good future. Perhas we could
> come up with a really good one, maybe basing it on mollisons "provices for
> its own needs"?
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