I want to go deeper
I want to get to the heart of the matter
and what it is you need to know
to really understand permaculture design
and how it's taught and the tools
and foundation of the system.
And even more important, the mindset
that you have to adopt to understand it.
What we're doing is we're looking around us
and seeing the problems in the world.
And, then we're learning to listen
and look at the natural system
and observe and learn from nature itself.
Then, we want to design solutions from what we've observed.
Doesn't it make sense?
The universe has been around a very, very long time
and it knows how to look after itself.
So if we design solution that align,
then we stand a chance of not just
repairing the problems that are all around us,
but actually creating an abundance.
I work on aid projects
and I work with people who are suffering
and it's a serious business.
So I need to be able to teach what I know works
and what actually gets a result.
It's not hard, but it can be complicated.
It's interesting in its complications.
It's like a very interesting game combination.
You're always trying to find new
combinations that work well together
and you're always finding them.
It's always revealing more and more interesting,
in depth situations.
And nobody has every said to me
it's too complicated after they've engaged.
They've all said how incredibly interesting it is.
It's what we actually engage in.
It's what we naturally feel comfortable being involved with.
And you actually realize that it's infinite.
It goes on indefinitely, it keeps going.
There's no ceiling to this, there's no end to this.
Kind of make you feel comfortable with time,
makes you feel comfortable with infinity actually.
It makes you realize this system
is as it's name implies, absolutely permanent.
Permaculture makes connections between disciplines,
so it's definitely a system that's quite complex,
but what we do is we provide you with a framework,
A framework of approach that gives you
section by section of understanding.
It builds a picture,
how you design, the systems that you use,
the approaches that you adapt,
how the patterns of the universe, everywhere around us,
the patterns of reality,
why they are formed in certain ways.
It explains how that is a formula in itself,
how energy is held in certain forms
and why those forms keep repeating.
There are constants about the climate on this planet.
There are very constant factors and once we understand that
and the difference between climates in different places,
we kind of get a stronger, tighter,
clearer focus on what it is we're doing
and where we should be applying
one sort of design to another.
The trees are the major elements of ecosystems.
They receive the energy of the climate.
From there, it goes on to water
because the big beneficial element
in a landscape from climate and trees
and their energy interactions is the water cycle
and that's such an important cycle.
We go on to soil because from there with so much life,
it's all about the life in the soil and creating soil.
And that's a big subject in itself,
but once you've got fertile soil,
once you're not losing soil, you're gaining soil
and improving soil's fertility,
you're definitely starting to be on the winning team.
So from there, we go from soils to how we move it around
because we've always moved soil around a bit.
We've made ponds, we've held up water,
we've made roads, we've shaped the soil.
We've been terraformers forever.
Form there, we can go specific to climates.
The three major climates of the world, the humid tropics.
They're so different, they're the hot, high sun tropics
where you get high temperatures and a high humidity.
Then on to dry lands.
They're where the evaporation is so high,
it's higher than the rainfall
and they're specific and they're quite complicated.
And then we can go on to the other
humid climate which is the cool to cold.
So we have the three major climates.
The last one there, before the final, is aquaculture.
How we actually get production in water itself
and then at the very end, the 14th chapter of them all,
strategies for global alternative nation.
How we have to use ethics as processes
and protocols to govern our needs.
How we have to use ethics to govern, design science.
How we design our communities, how we interact,
how we have our local trading,
how we set up buyer regional currencies,
how we trade together
and how we set up permanent cooperation
and an abundant world that we truly deserve.
That's our framework, that's what we can do.
That's why people realize
that permaculture is a design system for the future
and one we need right now to get past the issues we've have.