rernarkatsie dilierenee to midslope ehmate and soil
temperatures Anyone who dotiots this should walk
towards an uphill iorest one irosty night, and measure
or enperienee the warm down—draught irom high
loreris. it these are shore zones l and 7.. they piesent
httle or no line danger Their other lunetioris oi erosion
tontrol aiui water retenhon are well attested,

Downslope, reiieetion lrorn dams adds to the
warmth. Solareolleetois piaeod here tr nsriut heat, as
air or water eireuiating by thermosiphoning alone, and
nssist house, glasshouse or garden to htnetion rnore
emeientiy Evm very slight slopes oi liisti hinetion to
.oileet water and heat tl well used in the destgn

The easy, rounded ridges ol nonauddd iowerslopas
and their loothill pediments are a prime site lor
tettieineni they allow hitiation oi wastes, inseparable
lrorn large populations. through lowland iorest and
lake, and the eonirersion at these wastes into useliil
hmher, tresslruits, and aouaoehte.

ii zone and seetor are imposed in plan, sun angle and
landscape slope are assessed in elev it These
determine the toliowtng plaeernents:

SUN ANGLE deset-toes the are oi the run during
summer and winter monihs, and so decides eaye and
sill plaeemeni oi windows. areas oi shade, and
reneetion or aosorption angles oi surtares Also, in
errrry situation teyen hot deserts), some part oi the
system should he tett open to the sun ior its energy
poierui .

ASPECT deserioes the orientation oi the slope A
slope lacing the sun will receive eonsideratily more
direct solar radiation than a slope iaeing the shade side
tsouth in the southern hemisphere, north in the
northernl iiieshaded stde oi hills may delay thaw and
thus modernte irost elleets in vegetation in
rind—lanthdes, we ieek the sunny aspect oi slopes m
as ieye maximum sunlight absorphnn tor our
settlements and gardens

The hnat net in site planning is to orient all truldings
and struetures or eonstrueiseorieetiy, to laee trii sky,
the sun or the wind systems they reter to, or to shelter
them lrom detrimental inetors e.g. eold tnnter winds
or late atternoon sun

in summary, it the elements ot the design are
caieiitlly aoned. the seetors well analysed, the sun
angle and slope benefits rnastmised ior use, and the
eonstructed erwironment onentod io hinctinn. then a
better ground design results than most that now must
As I reassure all wouldeoe perm-culture designers,
yet «In do no irrorse than those prior designs you see
ibonl you, and by lollowing the essentially simple
outline ahoye, you may well do much tretter.
lneredilile as it seems, these essential laetors are the
most lreouentiy overlooked or ignored try designeis to
the present day, and ietiotii is then the only remedy
irir inelleetire design.

 

 

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ZONING OF INFORMATION AND
ETHICS

in this tiook, i am eoneentraung on people and their
plaee in nature Not to do so is to ignore the most
destruetiye inihtenee on all eeologirs- the unthinking
appetite ot people—appetite tor energy, newspaper,
wrappings. in", arid -reerestion . We ran think of our
tones in other than pioduet terms and management, as
a gradation between an ecosystem tihe home gaident
managed primarily ior people, and the wilderness,
where all things hat]: their right to exist and we are
only supplieanis or visitors Oiily escesstye energy
thurrun or met) enables us to am dominanee oyer
distant resouiees. When we speak oi dominanee, we
really mean destnietion.

what is proposed herein is that we have no nghi, nor
any ethieal .ustitie n, tor elearing land or using
wilderness while we head over lawns. ereate eiosion,
and use land inetiieiently oitr responsitiiltty is to pot
oiir house in order should we do so, there will never be
any need to destroy wilderness indeed, inost inriners
ean oeeome stewards ot’ lorert and wildlile, as they will
haye to become in any downturn in the energy
eeonomy. Unethteal energy use is what is destroying
distant resources tor shorHerm use

Our zones, then, represent zones oi destruetion,
iniorrnation, aynilatrle energy, and human dependeney
ihe “Kolagtst' with large lawns, or no iood garden is
as hypoenrirai as the ":yivhmnmcnullsr’ drinlting lrorn
liom an nlumintitiri beer an and tritying newspapers
to read oi destruetive eiptoits. isoth occupations
explnit wilderness and people,

ln Zone i we are iri/orrriaiiori dwr'npos; we tend
spoeies selected tiy, and dependent on, mankind All
animal species tend their ‘home gardens', and an
interdependency arises that is not greatly dillerent
(mm the parasiteprey dependeney.

in Zone 2 already nature is making our situation
more eotiiplei, and we start to learn I-mm species other
than our people—dependent selections As we piogress
outwards, we ran lose our pemlum'ziinhmt and gain
real understanding oi the neeesstty lor all hie lorins, as
we do not heed to exphik inost speetes. We in iaet
need and use only a lew speetes oi the hundreds ol
thousands that exist.

in wilderness, we are Visitors or strangers. We have
neither need nor right to eriere or donunate We
should not settle there, and thus leave wastelands at
oitr haek. in wilderness we may learn lessons haste to
good design, but we eannot improye on the
inlet-motion already nynilahle there in wilderness, we
learn oi our little pan in the seheme ol all things,

 

 

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are a dopamam part,

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