00021 Hacking Permaculture in 350 words

C ommit! Accept personal responsibility to live your life so that you —

  • Care for people,
  • Care for the planet,
  • Care for the future

S ee all you can see! Open your eyes to observe your situation and know reality. Trust yourself and your ability to make judgments based on your observations. Embrace a holistic vision that views everything as part of the whole. Respect all people and creatures as unique manifestations of Creation. Adapt, do not dominate.

R efuse! Stop hurting yourself, other people, and the planet’s living ecologies. Withdraw your support from subjugation and ruination. Stop feeding the economic domination system.

D esign or be designed! You need a plan! Permaculture helps you design that plan — a practical and ethical guide for your life that tells your story, a living document evolving as your life unfolds.

S ix critical design principles.

  • Everything connects to everything!
  • Everything serves multiple purposes!
  • Every important need comes from multiple functions!
  • Prefer natural methods and solutions. Embrace the small and slow.
  • Focus on the journey, not the destination. Find the seeds of the future in the present.
  • Use less stuff! Live as if what you do matters, because it does.

S olidarity — Participation — Cooperation! Organize your relationships and communities with diverse beneficial connections so it is easier to do the right thing.

R esist! Oppose all people and systems who do not care for people, do not care for the planet, and do not have a care for the future.

W alk your talk. What you do with your life matters — to you, to those who care for you, and to the planet. Through permaculture, you can design your life so that you experience more beauty, health, freedom, happiness, and cooperation, with less work, consumption, conflict, injustice, and waste. Your works of justice, sustainability, peace, and beauty, as they propagate across the planet, may ultimately free peoples from oppression, make justice possible, end tyranny, halt genocide, and restore and renew ecological systems. This authenticity of life and action is a source of wisdom and peace.

R egenerate! Renew! Reproduce! Permaculture is in this for the long term.