{"id":37261,"date":"2018-09-02T12:06:41","date_gmt":"2018-09-02T17:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=37261"},"modified":"2018-09-02T12:06:41","modified_gmt":"2018-09-02T17:06:41","slug":"what-might-buildings-settlements-and-even-regions-look-like-through-the-lens-of-permaculture-design-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=37261","title":{"rendered":"What Might Buildings, Settlements and Even Regions Look Like Through the Lens of Permaculture Design? Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

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WHAT MIGHT BUILDINGS, SETTLEMENTS AND EVEN REGIONS LOOK LIKE THROUGH THE LENS OF PERMACULTURE DESIGN? PART 1<\/a><\/h3>\n

This is part 1 of 2 of a transcript of a talk given by Paul Jennings to the recent SBUK\u00a0Big Straw Bale Gathering<\/a>. Paul has built his straw-bale family home on a \u2018One-Planet Development<\/a>\u2019 smallholding in Wales (costing \u00a312,000).<\/p>\n

INTRODUCTION<\/strong><\/p>\n

My partner and I built our first straw bale house in 2000, a very low spec Nebraska-style cabin on shipping pallets, with reclaimed windows, vigas cut on the site for a single pitch roof. It was 20m long and 6m wide, like a straw bale railway carriage; reclaimed forklift truck floor and earth rendered walls. We built it without planning permission, on the farm rented by the co-op we were members of, became something of a local cause celebre, and when we left, the building transitioned through accommodation for another couple, to an artist\u2019s studio, and was finally disassembled, recycled and composted. \u00a34000 build.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve done quite a lot of funky self-building since, and we\u2019re living in another straw bale cabin now on an OPD project in Carmarthenshire. \u00a312,000 build. I\u2019m not going to talk about straw bale building though, at least not directly. I\u2019m going to talk about issues related to it, and how I think Permaculture design might be relevant to straw bale builders.<\/p>\n

Asked why Permaculture emerged in Tasmania, David Holmgren said that it\u2019s a place where nature and modernity collide, both creatively and destructively. It was a place where the ferment of the 1960s, the rising awareness, after the publication of the Limits to Growth, of the strain being placed on the Earth system, and on-the-ground resistance to environmental destruction, coalesced into a rising environmental consciousness.<\/p>\n

Holmgren says of Bill Mollison, Permaculture\u2019s perhaps more famous originator, that his \u201clife and ideas epitomised a creative bridge between nature and civilisation and between tradition and modernity.\u201d<\/p>\n

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