Survey for a location design

Posted on 2023-05-05 14:45:00+02:00 in surveys • Written by Arno Peters • 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.

Focusing on the basics

Tool: 6 ways to die

  • Shelter protects from heat and cold.
    • having appropriate clothes for …

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Workshop Design Your Life

Posted on 2020-02-19 13:53:00+01:00 in workshop • Modified on 2020-11-09 11:13:00+01:00 • Written by Arno Peters • Tagged with workshop, permaculture, 9 ways of observing, forms of capital, bullet journaling, dragon dreaming, dreaming circle, community, life design, social design, 4 questions, vision, mental inventory

This workshop is in response to a question from Ana and Gábor for help with finding direction in their lives. The outline below is based on the process I followed for the design of my own life with additional resources from books, websites and blog posts I have read and …


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Model of US Social Classes

Posted on 2019-04-08 12:51:00+02:00 in blog • Written by Arno Peters • Tagged with community

Michael O. Church made a model of US social classes in 2012. The percentages given refer to US population numbers only. These models may have a limited correspondence to the social classes of Europe. I have taken the information from the original article and condensed it further.

  • Underclass (U) - 10 …

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Community Rules

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 …


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