Category: Zone 00 – Mindset
What is a Site Assessment, and Why Do One?
What is a Site Assessment? A site assessment is the thorough observation, recording, compilation, and organization of all of the existing conditions that are present at or affect the design and function of a piece of property. For a landscape, this includes not only the physical features of a site (like landshape and structures), but…
Electrical Branch Circuit Design Guide
Overcurrent Protection Device, Wiring, and End-Use Equipment Design and Selection for AC and DC Circuits Electrical branch circuits? What does that have to do with the design and development of sustainable human habitats?!? In our Introduction to Appropriate Energy, we present a process for designing efficient (and thus cheaper and more ecologically-sound) energy systems for…
Permaculture – Foundational Ethics & Principles
The prime directive of permaculture helps us apply the three ethics and the twelve principles to design our lives and work to align with the regenerative patterns found in nature.
What Is A Whole Site Design, and Why Do One?
What is a Whole Site Design? A whole site design is a visually illustrated, comprehensive plan that integrates all of the elements required to realize the vision for a particular landscape, whether that be held by an individual or a group of people, into a cohesive, self-supporting whole that exists in harmony with the innate…
Living with Fire – Part 4 Integrating Fire Into Daily Life (Again)
Living with Fire is a 4-part series presenting a new paradigm regarding fire – one in which we celebrate fire’s necessary ecological role, and design for a healthy relationship with it. The earlier parts of this series are: What if we chose to view natureโs gift of annually-replenishing fixed carbon sources (i.e. chaparral brush) in…
Living with Fire – Part 2 Regenerative Firescaping – Protecting Your Home With Good Design
Regenerative Firescaping principles and methods for creating a fire-safe oasis around your home.
Living with Fire – Part 1: Basic Fire Science, Personal Responsibility And Home Site Selection
Basic wildfire science, risk prioritization and management, and home site selection for enhanced fire survivability.
~ The Regenerative Agora ~ Counter-Economics For Stewards Of The Future
How can we go about creating the new systems, business models, value systems and infrastructure of a regenerative society when much of that work is arbitrarily outlawed or supressed by the power systems that dominate our current culture? This post is for those of you interested in creating that world worth inheriting, whether or not…
Creating Resilient Wealth With The 8 Forms Of Capital
Create Resilient Wealth and true freedom in time, health, wealth and spirit with the 8 Forms of Capital.
Lifestyle Design
STAYING ON THE PATH __________________ Uncovering Your Purpose, Creating Your Vision,๏ปฟ And Bringing It To Life. ~ A Process Roadmap ~ If you manage any land at all, whether it be a single garden bed or thousands of acres of rangeland, you are likely no stranger to idea overwhelm. It happens to all of us,…
The 4 Freedoms: Principles For Regenerative Lifestyle Design
The 4 Freedoms – Principle For Regenerative Lifestyle Design – Freedom in Time, Health, Wealth And Spirit.
Cynefin: Making Sense Amidst Disorder
This post is an introduction to Cynefin Sense-Making Model. Cynefin: โhabitatโ or โplaceโ – from Old Welsh, means a โplace of multiple belongings; cultural, religious, geographic, tribal etc. We can only ever be partially aware of all these multiple belongings, but never all of them simultaneously. The Cynefin Model is usefulย in recognizing causal differences that…
