Posted on 2025-10-27 14:57:00+01:00 in tools • Written by Arno Peters • Tagged with permaculture, attitudinal principles
This is a reformulation of the principles Bill Mollison used:
This principle asks us to look at how every element of our …
Posted on 2025-06-14 19:00:00+02:00 in designs • Written by Arno Peters • Tagged with permaculture, social design
I was voted into the board of an allotment association in 2019. In response, I created this design draft to help me get a feel for the challenges facing the allotment association at that time.
I abandoned this design when I ended my involvement with the association in 2025 …
Posted on 2025-05-13 15:45:00+02:00 in tools • Written by Arno Peters • Tagged with permaculture, 4 questions
The Four Questions is an evaluating tool. The four questions are:
Let's expand on each question.
List all the things that went well in your project, presentation, relationship, life or …
Posted on 2025-04-05 20:12:00+02:00 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 2025-01-29 14:30:00+01:00 in tools • Written by Arno Peters • Tagged with permaculture, practical
We created this biochar cooker during the second week of my first PDC. It is made from two large drums and one smaller can.
Posted on 2024-12-20 21:00:00+01:00 in surveys • Written by Arno Peters • Tagged with permaculture, survey, PASTE, garden design, Eindhoven, season: summer
Starting from September 2018, Ina and I have rented an allotment at an association nearby. Ina quit the allotment in January 2023. I have ended our contract with the association in December 2024.
This survey lists the species found in the garden in 2024.
This list is part of the …
Posted on 2024-05-28 15:44:00+02:00 in designs • Written by Arno Peters • Tagged with permaculture, social design, design web, facilitation, dreaming circle, vision, brainstorm, mind map
I recently felt a longing to do a design based on the Design Web of Looby Macnamara. An opportunity presented itself as I came into contact with Marieke, a woman who was looking for a way to reboot her business. I proposed to facilitate a design with her.
Posted on 2023-05-05 15:17:00+02:00 in tools • Written by Arno Peters • Tagged with permaculture, ethics, Holmgren principles, attitudinal principles
To consider for Earth Care and Future Care:
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.
Tool: 6 ways to die
Posted on 2022-06-07 20:00:00+02:00 in surveys • Written by Arno Peters • Tagged with permaculture, survey, backyard, site information, PASTE, DAFOR(N)
This survey is for a revision of the design for the backyard.
The extra information for each plant is derived from the following sources: