Posted on do 25 mei 2023 in tools • Tagged with design web
Looby Macnamara's Design Web is a design process. You can read about it in her book People & Permaculture. I resonate with using its anchor points and allowing jumping between points as questions come up and get answered.
The tool gives 12 different anchor points to use as a starting point …
Posted on vr 05 mei 2023 in tools • Tagged with bullet journaling, year compass, feedback
I have started bullet journaling on 20 December 2019. I have kept to a very minimal set of collections.
Ryder Carroll encourages you to record an intention for your bullet journaling practice. Mine is: "I want my BuJo practice to help me record the ebb and flow of my life …
Posted on vr 05 mei 2023 in contemplation
Posted on vr 05 mei 2023 in tools • Tagged with permaculture, ethics, Holmgren principles, attitudinal principles
Posted on vr 05 mei 2023 in tools • Tagged with thinking in patterns
Below is a list of patterns found in nature. Every pattern is a response to a specific challenge.
Posted on vr 05 mei 2023 in tools • Tagged with mental inventory, bullet journaling
I first came across the mental inventory when I started using the Bullet Journal method.
Find the original explanation here.
Posted on vr 05 mei 2023 in surveys • Tagged with permaculture, survey, community, location design
I'm collecting information for a design on location. This to validate our current choice of location and / or to find another place that is more suitable to our wants and needs.
Estimation of monetary needs for a community of size n. Expenses …
Posted on wo 03 mei 2023 in blog • Tagged with soap, experiment, recipe
We made a shampoo bar / soap for washing our hair. We did this for the first time in 2021 and after we had used up the first batch, we made a second batch in 2022.
We took every precaution to do this safely. Please familiarize yourself with the process before …
Posted on vr 20 januari 2023 in blog • Tagged with experiment, season: winter
I was looking for a way to create insulated insoles. I considered covering a piece of plastic with felt. As I looked around at what I had laying around to use as a felting template, I considered radiator foil.
The foil is made of a layer of foam and a …
Posted on wo 04 januari 2023 in blog • Tagged with survey, practical, season: spring, season: summer, season: fall, season: winter
Since mid 2017 I have been involved with gardening at the Proeftuin Meerhoven in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. This is a community garden maintained by volunteers in the neighborhood adjoining ours. We use the space with approval from the local council. The harvest from this garden has supplemented our lunches and …