{"id":60681,"key":"Permaculture_ethics","title":"Permaculture ethics","latest":{"id":1224158,"timestamp":"2026-01-09T00:12:53Z"},"content_model":"wikitext","license":{"url":"https://www.appropedia.org/Appropedia:Copyrights","title":"CC-BY-SA-4.0"},"source":"[[File:Permaculture icon.png|right|350px]]\n\nThe '''Permaculture ethics''' are the starting place for making decisions when beginning a permaculture design. Different permaculture teachers have expressed these ethics in different ways.\n\n== Prime Directive ==\n\nBill Mollison expressed the Prime Directive of Permaculture as:\n\n<blockquote>\"The only ethical decision is to take responsibility for our own existence and that of our children.\"</blockquote>\n\nJen Mendez of the Permie Kids Podcast has expanded upon the original:\n\n<blockquote>\"The only ethical decision is to take an active, whole-systems-thinking approach to learning and life. As authentic, fully-realized communities we have the means to care ourselves, others and the earth.</blockquote>\n\n== Bill Mollison ==\n\n=== Care of the Earth ===\n\nProvision for all life systems to continue and multiply\n\nThere are three concurrent and parallel responses:\n\n# Care for surviving natural assemblages\n# Rehabilitate degraded or eroded land\n# Create our own complex living environment\n\n=== Care of People ===\n\nProvision for people to access those resources necessary to their existence\n\n=== Setting Limits to Population and Consumption ===\n\nBy governing our own needs, we can set resources aside to further the above principles\n\n== David Holmgren ==\n\n# Earth Care - Rebuild natural capital\n# People Care - Look after self, kin and community\n# Fair Share - Set limits and redistribute surplus\n\n== A Policy of Responsibility (to relinquish power) ==\n\nThe role of beneficial authority is to return function and responsibilty to life and to people; if successful, no further authority is needed. The role of successful design is to create a self-managed system.\n\n== External Links ==\n\n* http://permacultureprinciples.com/ethics/\n* https://www.permaculture.org.uk/knowledge-base/ethics\n* http://www.resilience.org/stories/2010-07-20/permaculture-ethics-why-permaculture-different\n\n{{PermacultureInfo}}\n\n{{Page data\n| license = CC-BY-SA-3.0\n| description = Permaculture ethics are explained through earth care, people care, and responsible use. Appropedia presents these ideas as a base for sustainable living.\n}}\n\n[[Category:Permaculture]]"}