Accept: everything connects to everything Every action generates consequences
Respect for ‘public’ and ‘private’ domains Exploit ‘free-flow’ resources (solar)
Exploitative use of ‘free-flow’ resources Sustainable emphasis for ‘renewable’
resources
Conservative use of ‘finite’ resources Conserve ‘finite’ resources
Sustainable use of ‘renewable’ resources Preserve ‘heritage’ resources
Preservation of ‘heritage’ resources Trauma-avoidance lifestyles
Consideration for community: the Retain, repair, recycle, re-use, retrofit
catchments
Enforce pollution taxes and penalties Grow and make for personal use
Promote local hazards defence Pursue impact defence: a local practice
Sustainability content to early schooling Refurbish rather than replace
Proximity of home-work-recreation Soft energy paths and energy savingsu
Build to efficiency codes Reuse and recycle affirmatively
Manufacture for long-term utility Save on domestic energy consumption
Engage: solar, hydro, wind, photosynthesis Reduce delivered energy supply
Waste: dispose as locally as possible Natural heating/cooking/ventilation/
lighting
Reuse and recycle Reuse and maintain transportation
stock
Practice low-energy project embodiment Out of your car, on your bike, onto
your feet
Practice waste heat recovery and utility Dietary adjustment toward vegetarian
balance
Promote minibus and light rail services Car-pooling; minibusing; public
transport
Rural ‘feeds’ urban: Rural ‘receives’ waste Soft ‘symbiotic’ technological
applications
Farmer-factory a co-function relationship Interdependence within community
Reduce energy embodiment in all Labour-with-dignity practices
production
Design and build plant to last Quality plus back-up: the secret to
success
Extend the permaculture networkt Wholesome homespun output
Cradle-to-grave care for hazardous Promote permaculture principles
processes
Labour-intensiveness: yet drudgery Accommodate benign ‘outwork’
avoidance practices
Pollution taxes and penalties enforced ‘Peasants by Choice’ reasoning
Recognition: urban is about community Discover and ‘work’ the
neighbourhood
Strive for ‘focused’ ‘sociable’ Design and build to last
neighbourhoods
Provide pedestrian and cycle accessibility Use the home for benign out-workv
Reduce utility service run-lines Use pedestrian and cycle accessways
Self-reliance: energy, water, waste Pursue on-site self-servicing
disposal
Urban silviculture: firewood and fruiting Comfort goals before convenience
trees goods
Urban horticulture: the edible townscape Engage gift-giving supportw
Avoid junk commerce and advertising Foster the ‘enjoyable’ community
jRecognizably a ‘Rawlsian’ maxim; but
this and other attributable precepts,
hopefully adequately referenced in the
main text, are not always acknowledged
in this Matrix.k
The context for aligning gross retire-
ment Income to the GNP and the chang-
ing population structure is examined in
David Thomson’s Selfish Generations
(1991).l
‘Junk Commerce’ for higher bands of
taxation – a personal view – is commer-
cial ‘money-taking’ activity without any
tangible attempt to produce a corporeal
product or community service. I would
include ‘cowboy companies’, windfall
profiteering from bonds and shares,
consumer vanity advertising, gambling
establishment profits.m
On a regional basis: encourage ‘within
region’ supply-side activities, and dis-
courage ‘extra-regional’ demand-side
purchasing..n
A cross-reference to the 11-point
listing in box 5.1 Urban social arrange-
ment and style (ch. 5).o
Keyworded precepts to contemplate:
‘include’ reusing, repairing, recycling, con-
serving, organic: and ‘to exclude ‘ toxins,
synthetics, hard technologies, imports.p
The lawn needs cutting? The sustainably
ever-worsening (but economically ever-
increasing) options are (1) borrow a goat
(2) the household kicks-in to mow it ‘by
hand’ (3) a member of the household
does the job with a motor mower, (4) a
neighbour (who needs your complimen-
tary skills) does the job on a skills-
exchange basis, (5) a locally unemployed
person is given cash to do the job on an
‘illegal’ basis within the ‘black’ economy,
(6) a lawn-mowing contractor is called in.q
Derived from the principles expressed
as the ‘soft pathways’ earlier this chapterr
Suburbs and other urban componentry
are given attention in ch. 5. Urban
Growth Management.s
‘Appropriateness’ being a function of
broadly ‘social’ criteria; specifically, as
economically fair, environmentally har-
monious and socially secure.t
An excellent text is Bill Mollison’s
attractive presentation (1988) Permacul-
ture: A Designers’ Manualu.
Consult the significant A. B. Lovins
volume (first published 1977) Soft Energy
Pathsv.
The incorporation of ‘outwork’ into
suburbia connotes the acceptance of
compatible ‘home-commerce’ and ‘light
home industry’ into the suburban scene;
along with environment-friendly place-
keeping.w
Important this for the low waged (an
economic saving), and for the elderly
(sociability). No day going by without
some gifting/supporting activity: home-
baked bread ‘in’, marmalade ‘out’ – fresh
garden vegetables ‘in’, save a trip gro-
ceries brought ‘in’ – unstick a window,
mind a pet, and so on.