Posted on 2026-04-27 21:39 in designs • Written by Arno Peters • Tagged with permaculture, social design, CEAP, ikigai, ethics, attitudinal principles, Holmgren principles, web of goals, early retirement extreme
This is a permaculture design for my life. It is a living document. Here I document the process and the design. The first version came about in 2018. In 2026 I reviewed and updated it.
For this design I use CEAP as the design process. It is simply:
Posted on 2026-03-05 11:57 in tools • Written by Arno Peters • Tagged with permaculture, Holmgren principles
In addition to the Permaculture Ethics, David Holmgren’s list of 12 design principles shows us helpful ways to think about our systems.
Posted on 2025-04-05 20:12 in tools • Written by Arno Peters • Tagged with OODA, permaculture, Holmgren principles
OODA is an abbreviation for the words: Observe, Orient, Decide, Act. Developed and taught by John Boyd, a US military pilot, as a mental model for training other pilots.
Observe is about overseeing the whole, everything, facts and emotions, the different players and their (apparent) motives, culture and history and …
Posted on 2023-05-05 15:17 in tools • Written by Arno Peters • Tagged with permaculture, ethics, Holmgren principles, attitudinal principles
To consider for Earth Care and Future Care:
Posted on 2021-07-20 16:12 in designs • Written by Arno Peters • Tagged with permaculture, life design, social design, design web, facilitation, zettelkasten, dreaming circle, vision, brainstorm, mind map, mental inventory, bullet journaling, year compass, burn rate, 4 questions, Holmgren principles, functions and elements
After the recent completion of his courses in alternative forms of health care, a close friend intends to set up a business offering these types of therapy for clients. I offered my help in creating a design for his practice. I have run my own business for over ten …
Posted on 2018-12-27 17:04 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 2018-09-25 22:00 in designs • Modified on 2019-08-28 20:17 • Written by Arno Peters • Tagged with permaculture, general design, CEAP, 9 ways of observing, client interview, ethics, attitudinal principles, Holmgren principles
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 …
Posted on 2018-07-13 17:00 in designs • Modified on 2018-07-24 13:00 • Written by Arno Peters • Tagged with permaculture, dragon dreaming, dragon dreaming planning, Gunsleben, ethics, Holmgren principles, 6 ways to die, dragon dreaming celebrating, abandoned design
This is the place where we analyze and consider alternatives. See the design overview for the big picture.
Note: this design has been abandoned.
Posted on 2018-05-24 14:00 in designs • Modified on 2018-12-30 23:05 • 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 …
Posted on 2018-05-23 14:00 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.
Designer: Arno Peters.
I used CEAP in designing this.
See site information for all collected information on the backyard.
The Humanure Handbook from Joseph Jenkins provides great insight into composting.
I watched …