Posted on 2019-03-05 14:27:00+01:00 in tools • Written by Arno Peters • Tagged with permaculture, social design, community
In social permaculture the community plays a prominent role. Sometime in 2018 I became aware of research done by Dmitry Orlov on communities. He studied communities that last multiple generations; in his words: Communities that abide.
Orlov distilled a set of commandments that communities should obey. I found his list …
Posted on 2019-03-04 15:18:00+01:00 in blog • Modified on 2019-03-05 14:26:00+01:00 • Written by Arno Peters • Tagged with permaculture, attitudinal principles, experiment, season: fall, season: winter, season: spring
When making bread, the recommendation is to place the dough in a warm spot to rise for about one hour. Since we hardly heat the house in winter (the thermostat is set at 12°C; the living room is a bit warmer still) this proved a bit of a challenge …
Posted on 2019-02-19 14:00:00+01:00 in tools • Written by Arno Peters
From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_strategy
Many military strategists have attempted to encapsulate a successful strategy in a set of principles. Sun Tzu defined 13 principles in his The Art of War while Napoleon listed 115 maxims. American Civil War General Nathan Bedford Forrest had only one: to "[get …
Posted on 2019-02-10 21:02:00+01:00 in surveys • Modified on 2019-04-27 19:45:00+02:00 • Written by Arno Peters • Tagged with permaculture, survey, location design
What are other people advising on location choice?
From a comment by sandy on the Archdruid Report (discontinued):
Posted on 2019-01-14 22:00:00+01:00 in designs • Modified on 2025-09-08 16:13:00+02:00 • Written by Arno Peters • Tagged with permaculture, urban design, appropriate technology, CEAP, zones and sectors, ethics, attitudinal principles, haybox
This is a small design I did to show the different options available for making a haybox at home.
Another, more recent article documents our current (2025) use of the haybox.
In our household we try to reduce our need for fossil fuels. One way is to prevent cooling …
Posted on 2019-01-07 22:00:00+01:00 in designs • Modified on 2019-04-15 14:06:00+02:00 • Written by Arno Peters • Tagged with permaculture, food forest design, Nuenen, zones and sectors, planning for real, client interview, ethics, attitudinal principles, hugelculture, compost
Overview map (courtesy of OpenStreetMap) © OpenStreetMap-auteurs. The red area shows where the food forest is located within the grounds of the Weverkeshof.
The Weverkeshof is a city farm in Nuenen. They would like to convert a (small) part of their grounds into a food forest. This page details how …
Posted on 2018-12-31 15:00:00+01:00 in surveys • Written by Arno Peters • Tagged with permaculture, survey, PASTE, garden design, Eindhoven, season: fall
Starting from 2018-09-01, Ina and I have rented an allotment at an association nearby. This survey lists the different species discovered.
Posted on 2018-12-27 17:04:00+01:00 in designs • Written by Arno Peters • Tagged with permaculture, urban design, SADIMet, 9 ways of observing, ethics, Holmgren principles
Ilona and Stefan want to limit the view from the neighbors. They would like a nice environment to look out onto from their living room.
The design was done by:
Posted on 2018-11-04 15:00:00+01:00 in tools • Written by Arno Peters • Tagged with dragon dreaming
Posted on 2018-09-28 20:00:00+02:00 in designs • Written by Arno Peters • Tagged with permaculture, building design, SADIMet, kanban, client interview, 9 ways of observing, ethics, dreaming circle, mind map, mapping, zones and sectors, SWOC, PMI, attitudinal principles, planning for real, input output analysis
Map created from satellite image, openstreetmap and provided sketch. Download and open the file in a vector editor like Inkscape to see and play with the different layers.
This work is the result of a PDC held in Gunsleben, Germany. The first week was …