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rernarkatsie dilierenee to midslope ehmate and soil
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temperatures Anyone who dotiots this should walk
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towards an uphill iorest one irosty night, and measure
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or enperienee the warm down—draught irom high
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loreris. it these are shore zones l and 7.. they piesent
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httle or no line danger Their other lunetioris oi erosion
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tontrol aiui water retenhon are well attested,
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Downslope, reiieetion lrorn dams adds to the
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warmth. Solareolleetois piaeod here tr nsriut heat, as
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air or water eireuiating by thermosiphoning alone, and
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nssist house, glasshouse or garden to htnetion rnore
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emeientiy Evm very slight slopes oi liisti hinetion to
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.oileet water and heat tl well used in the destgn
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The easy, rounded ridges ol nonauddd iowerslopas
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and their loothill pediments are a prime site lor
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tettieineni they allow hitiation oi wastes, inseparable
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lrorn large populations. through lowland iorest and
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lake, and the eonirersion at these wastes into useliil
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hmher, tresslruits, and aouaoehte.
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ii zone and seetor are imposed in plan, sun angle and
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landscape slope are assessed in elev it These
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determine the toliowtng plaeernents:
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SUN ANGLE deset-toes the are oi the run during
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summer and winter monihs, and so decides eaye and
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sill plaeemeni oi windows. areas oi shade, and
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reneetion or aosorption angles oi surtares Also, in
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errrry situation teyen hot deserts), some part oi the
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system should he tett open to the sun ior its energy
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poierui .
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ASPECT deserioes the orientation oi the slope A
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slope lacing the sun will receive eonsideratily more
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direct solar radiation than a slope iaeing the shade side
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tsouth in the southern hemisphere, north in the
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northernl iiieshaded stde oi hills may delay thaw and
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thus modernte irost elleets in vegetation in
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rind—lanthdes, we ieek the sunny aspect oi slopes m
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as ieye maximum sunlight absorphnn tor our
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settlements and gardens
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The hnat net in site planning is to orient all truldings
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and struetures or eonstrueiseorieetiy, to laee trii sky,
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the sun or the wind systems they reter to, or to shelter
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them lrom detrimental inetors e.g. eold tnnter winds
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or late atternoon sun
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in summary, it the elements ot the design are
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caieiitlly aoned. the seetors well analysed, the sun
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angle and slope benefits rnastmised ior use, and the
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eonstructed erwironment onentod io hinctinn. then a
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better ground design results than most that now must
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As I reassure all wouldeoe perm-culture designers,
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yet «In do no irrorse than those prior designs you see
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ibonl you, and by lollowing the essentially simple
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outline ahoye, you may well do much tretter.
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lneredilile as it seems, these essential laetors are the
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most lreouentiy overlooked or ignored try designeis to
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the present day, and ietiotii is then the only remedy
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irir inelleetire design.
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310
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ZONING OF INFORMATION AND
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ETHICS
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in this tiook, i am eoneentraung on people and their
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plaee in nature Not to do so is to ignore the most
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destruetiye inihtenee on all eeologirs- the unthinking
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appetite ot people—appetite tor energy, newspaper,
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wrappings. in", arid -reerestion . We ran think of our
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tones in other than pioduet terms and management, as
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a gradation between an ecosystem tihe home gaident
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managed primarily ior people, and the wilderness,
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where all things hat]: their right to exist and we are
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only supplieanis or visitors Oiily escesstye energy
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thurrun or met) enables us to am dominanee oyer
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distant resouiees. When we speak oi dominanee, we
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really mean destnietion.
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what is proposed herein is that we have no nghi, nor
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any ethieal .ustitie n, tor elearing land or using
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wilderness while we head over lawns. ereate eiosion,
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and use land inetiieiently oitr responsitiiltty is to pot
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oiir house in order should we do so, there will never be
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any need to destroy wilderness indeed, inost inriners
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ean oeeome stewards ot’ lorert and wildlile, as they will
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haye to become in any downturn in the energy
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eeonomy. Unethteal energy use is what is destroying
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distant resources tor shorHerm use
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Our zones, then, represent zones oi destruetion,
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iniorrnation, aynilatrle energy, and human dependeney
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ihe “Kolagtst' with large lawns, or no iood garden is
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as hypoenrirai as the ":yivhmnmcnullsr’ drinlting lrorn
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liom an nlumintitiri beer an and tritying newspapers
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to read oi destruetive eiptoits. isoth occupations
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explnit wilderness and people,
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ln Zone i we are iri/orrriaiiori dwr'npos; we tend
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spoeies selected tiy, and dependent on, mankind All
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animal species tend their ‘home gardens', and an
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interdependency arises that is not greatly dillerent
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(mm the parasiteprey dependeney.
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in Zone 2 already nature is making our situation
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more eotiiplei, and we start to learn I-mm species other
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than our people—dependent selections As we piogress
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outwards, we ran lose our pemlum'ziinhmt and gain
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real understanding oi the neeesstty lor all hie lorins, as
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we do not heed to exphik inost speetes. We in iaet
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need and use only a lew speetes oi the hundreds ol
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thousands that exist.
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in wilderness, we are Visitors or strangers. We have
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neither need nor right to eriere or donunate We
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should not settle there, and thus leave wastelands at
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oitr haek. in wilderness we may learn lessons haste to
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good design, but we eannot improye on the
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inlet-motion already nynilahle there in wilderness, we
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learn oi our little pan in the seheme ol all things,
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W
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i Evomhlng is ai use lt is not nmitty needed by
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peepi- mitisr-edodtrythalileoompluolwhiaim
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are a dopamam part,
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1w. caiimt omt oomploit itindtixis, Thly must
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