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Permaculture ethics and principles |
What is permaculture? |
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Make posters or collages about permaculture. |
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Permaculture ethics and principles |
What is permaculture? |
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Make a photo collage that shows the difference between monoculture and permaculture. |
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Permaculture ethics and principles |
What is permaculture? |
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Sing songs about permaculture and caring for the Earth. |
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Permaculture ethics and principles |
What is permaculture? |
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Discuss Gandhi's statement "There is enough for everyone's need but not everyone's greed". |
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Permaculture ethics and principles |
What is permaculture? |
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Prepare a puppet show or performance to show what permaculture is. |
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Permaculture ethics and principles |
What is permaculture? |
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With Eyes closed, do a creative visualisation of a journey through a world of abundance and harmony with nature - then make drawings or write about the experience. |
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Permaculture ethics and principles |
What is permaculture? |
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Learn that a permaculture garden can provide clean and healthy food. |
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Permaculture ethics and principles |
What is permaculture? |
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Explore the idea that when you work with nature, it can take less energy. For example, after experiencing two different ways to collect water (e.g. one involving carrying a watering up a hill, and the other allowing it to flow down the hill to where you want it). A discussion can help children to think about how to work with the natural flow of water. |
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Permaculture ethics and principles |
What is permaculture? |
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Learn that permaculture is a way of looking at the world which helps people to live sustainable and express it in their own words. |
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Permaculture ethics and principles |
What is permaculture? |
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Learn that permaculture is a design system based on ethics and principles. |
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Permaculture ethics and principles |
What is permaculture? |
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Understand what the words "ethic" and "principle" mean. |
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Permaculture ethics and principles |
What is permaculture? |
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Discuss t the difference between want and need. |
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Permaculture ethics and principles |
The permaculture principles (Mollison's and/or Holmgren's) |
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Observe or spot the permaculture principles being demonstrated in a particular place, such as a garden. |
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Permaculture ethics and principles |
The permaculture principles (Mollison's and/or Holmgren's) |
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After an excursion (to a new part in town, neighbourhood, elderly home, forest, country), discuss how the principles 'Use and Value Diversity' and 'Integrate rather than Segregate' can help us to appreciate how each person in the group is different and has different skills and abilities, and think about how we can make sure we include everybody. |
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Permaculture ethics and principles |
The permaculture principles (Mollison's and/or Holmgren's) |
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Compare how permaculture principles are reflected in nature and in the garden. |
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Permaculture ethics and principles |
The permaculture principles (Mollison's and/or Holmgren's) |
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At the end of an activity children can give and receive feedback, and think how it can be better next time. |
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Permaculture ethics and principles |
The permaculture principles (Mollison's and/or Holmgren's) |
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Discover that permaculture is based on principles that help guide our action so that we can meet our needs in a way that sustains life for us and other species. |
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Permaculture ethics and principles |
What is permaculture? |
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Spend time in a aquaculture-inspired garden, touching, tasting, smelling the plants and animals (as appropriate). |
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Permaculture ethics and principles |
The permaculture ethics: Earth Care, People Care, Fair Share. |
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See the permaculture ethics expressed in 3 overlapping circles (Venn diagram) and discuss some actions which could be in the middle i.e. meet all 3 ethics (e.g. growing food is Earth care because there's less transport, and People care because the food is fresh and chemical-free, and Fair Share because we aren't taking resources from elsewhere). |
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Permaculture ethics and principles |
The permaculture principles (Mollison's and/or Holmgren's) |
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Sing songs about permaculture and its principles (look for "Formidable Vegetable Sound System" for examples). |
