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+* Principle #1: Observe and Interact
+* Principle #2: Catch and Store Energy
+* Principle #3: Obtain a Yield
+* Principle #4: Apply Self-regulation and Accept Feedback
+* Principle #5: Use and Value Renewable Resources
+* Principle #6: Produce No Waste
+* Principle #7: Design from Patterns to Details
+* Principle #8: Integrate – Do Not Segregate
+* Principle #9: Use Small and Slow Solutions
+* Principle #10: Use and Value Diversity
+* Principle #11: Use Edges and Value the Marginal
+* Principle #12: Creatively Use and Respond to Change
+
+###Primary Principles for Functional Design:
+* 1. Observe. Use protracted and thoughtful observation rather than prolonged and thoughtless action. Observe the site and its elements in all seasons. Design for specific sites, clients, and cultures.
+* 2. Connect. Use relative location: Place elements in ways that create useful relationships and time-saving connections among all parts. The number of connections among elements creates a healthy, diverse ecosystem, not the number of elements.
+* 3. Catch and store energy and materials. Identify, collect, and hold useful flows. Every cycle is an opportunity for yield, every gradient (in slope, charge, heat, etc.) can produce energy. Re-investing resources builds capacity to capture yet more resources.
+* 4. Each element performs multiple functions. Choose and place each element in a system to perform as many functions as possible. Beneficial connections between diverse components create a stable whole. Stack elements in both space and time.
+* 5. Each function is supported by multiple elements. Use multiple methods to achieve important functions and to create synergies. Redundancy protects when one or more elements fail.
+* 6. Make the least change for the greatest effect. Find the “leverage points” in the system and intervene there, where the least work accomplishes the most change.
+* 7. Use small scale, intensive systems. Start at your doorstep with the smallest systems that will do the job, and build on your successes, with variations. Grow by chunking.
+
+###Principles for Living and Energy Systems
+* 1. Optimize edge. The edge—the intersection of two environments—is the most diverse place in a system, and is where energy and materials accumulate or are transformed. Increase or decrease edge as appropriate.
+* 2. Collaborate with succession. Systems will evolve over time, often toward greater diversity and productivity. Work with this tendency, and use design to jump-start succession when needed.
+* 3. Use biological and renewable resources. Renewable resources (usually living beings and their products) reproduce and build up over time, store energy, assist yield, and interact with other elements.
+
+###Attitudes
+* 1. Turn problems into solutions. Constraints can inspire creative design. “We are confronted by insurmountable opportunities.”—Pogo (Walt Kelly)
+* 2. Get a yield. Design for both immediate and long-term returns from your efforts: “You can’t work on an empty stomach.” Set up positive feedback loops to build the system and repay your investment.
+* 3. The biggest limit to abundance is creativity. The designer’s imagination and skill limit productivity and diversity more than any physical limit.
+* 4. Mistakes are tools for learning. Evaluate your trials. Making mistakes is a sign you’re trying to do things better.
+
+###Rules for resource use:
+Ranked from regenerative to degenerative, different resources can:
+
+* 1. increase with use;
+* 2. be lost when not used;
+* 3. be unaffected by use;
+* 4. be lost by use;
+* 5. pollute or degrade systems with use.
+
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+
+###Permaculture and computing
+* Computing as a support system for plants
+* Plants as a support system for computing (there is no computing on a dead planet)
+
+
+####Links:
+Toby Hemenway https://tobyhemenway.com/resources/ethics-and-principles/
+
