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Haybox from common household items

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.

Background

In our household we try to reduce our need for fossil fuels. One way is to prevent cooling …

Design Arno's company

Posted on 2018-09-25 22:00:00+02:00 in designs • Modified on 2019-08-28 20:17:00+02:00 • Written by Arno Peters • Tagged with permaculture, general design, CEAP, 9 ways of observing, client interview, ethics, attitudinal principles, Holmgren principles

Background

I currently work for a few customers as a programmer and for a few others as a systems administrator for their Linux systems.

Current situation (2018) is a physical servers at two different locations. One is in a local data center with a optic fiber connection and one is …

Design Summer Party

Posted on 2018-06-04 20:00:00+02:00 in designs • Written by Arno Peters • Tagged with permaculture, social design, Eindhoven, party, CEAP, 5 W's, 9 ways of observing, flow, ethics, attitudinal principles, kanban, 4 questions, season: summer

Background

One of the challenges facing us the coming years is a return to a more communal way of living. A party is a good way to practice coming together and exchanging ideas and inspiration. A way also to connect different circles of people.

The goal is to create a …

Design Arno's life

Posted on 2018-05-30 22:00:00+02:00 in designs • Modified on 2019-09-29 21:14:00+02:00 • Written by Arno Peters • Tagged with permaculture, social design, CEAP, 3 happy lives, ikigai, ethics, attitudinal principles, Holmgren principles, web of goals, core human needs, early retirement extreme

This is a permaculture design design for my life. This page documents the process and the design. I used CEAP as the design process.

Collect information
Evaluate the information
Apply Permaculture Ethics and Principles
Plan for Action

Collect information

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

—Aristotle

Knowing yourself …

Design Arno's backyard (2018)

Posted on 2018-05-24 14:00:00+02:00 in designs • Modified on 2018-12-30 23:05:00+01:00 • Written by Arno Peters • Tagged with permaculture, garden design, Eindhoven, CEAP, client interview, ethics, zones and sectors, 9 ways of observing, attitudinal principles, Holmgren principles

This is the main design for the backyard. It ties the other designs for the garden together.

Backyard in the middle of May 2018.

My front yard and back yard provide the perfect practice ground for trying out new ideas. These pages document some of the ideas I have executed …

Compost bin in Arno's backyard (2018)

Posted on 2018-05-23 14:00:00+02:00 in designs • Written by Arno Peters • Tagged with permaculture, backyard, compost, CEAP, Holmgren principles

This is a design for the compost bin in Arno's backyard.

Background

Designer: Arno Peters.

Design strategy

I used CEAP in designing this.

Collect site information

See site information for all collected information on the backyard.

The Humanure Handbook from Joseph Jenkins provides great insight into composting.

I watched several …

Designing a water catchment for Arno's backyard (2018)

Posted on 2018-05-22 14:00:00+02:00 in designs • Written by Arno Peters • Tagged with permaculture, garden design, water catchment, CEAP, Holmgren principles

This is a design for the water catchment in Arno's backyard.

Water comes from the downspout via the grey pipe on the left. Water is stored in the blue barrel. Water overflows via the black tube and then down the brown pipe. The bucket makes for a small bird pool …

Designing the hugels (2018)

Posted on 2018-05-21 14:00:00+02:00 in designs • Written by Arno Peters • Tagged with permaculture, garden design, hugelculture, Holmgren principles, CEAP

This is a design for the hugelculture in Arno's backyard.

Background

Designer: Arno Peters.

Design strategy

I used CEAP in designing this.

Collect site information

See site information for all collected information on the backyard.

Available materials for the hugels:

cuttings
- branches from Viburnum tinus (laurustinus / sneeuwbol)
- branches from Pinophyta …