- Get an overview sense of the course material
- Become familiar with building a website using the wordpress tool
- Practice using the internet as a source for needed information
You may work in groups or alone as it suits you. Instructors will be roaming the room to help you with any questions you might have about the material or website development. It is not required that you finish all of the questions in the worksheets. Complete what you can in the 2 class days we will be devoting to this activity. Work on the questions that are most interesting to you.
Chapter 1: Starting Permaculture
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Give an example of a system that you interact with in your daily life:
In gaming, one might arrange elements called a monitor, console, controller, and headset; according to the principles of competition; in order to achieve success and win.
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Chapter 2: Permaculture’s Ethical Underpinnings
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The permaculture values are just one of many different ways to describe how social and personal attitudes correlate to sustainability. Holmgren has created a graphic to illustrate the idea that, in order to achieve a “permanent culture,” these values must be at the center and drive behavior across cultural domains.
Find three other graphics that describe the same idea and insert them below.
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Chapter 3: Ecology: Life’s Networks
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Using one of the calculators found online, calculate your ecological footprint. Include a link to your calculator along with a screen-shot image of the sites calculation using your information.
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Chapter 4: The Wonder of Water
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How much water do you use in a day? 1,294 gallons per day.
How many gallons does that add up to in a year? 472,310 gallons per year.
How many inches of rain fall each year in your area? 17 inches of rain per year.
What size roof would you need to capture the amount of water you need? Roof = 44,600 square feet
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Chapter 5: Climates and Microclimates
Chapter 18 Other Cultures and Places
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What is the USDA hardness zone of Forest Grove Oregon? 8a and 8b.
What is the average last frost date? April 23.
What is the average first frost date? October 24.
What are the average high and low temperatures? High = 62.4°F and low = 42°F.
How many inches of rainfall does Forest Grove get every year? 45.53 inches of rainfall.
Compare the climate of a tropical city of your choice with that of Forest Grove
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Chapter 10: Developing your Design Methods
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Search “images” for “permaculture sector analysis” and “permaculture zone analysis” Insert 3 images of each below. (or create a slideshow and insert it below)
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Chapter 11: How and Where we Live: Zone 0
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Go through the table on pages 117-118. Select three house problems that you have experienced in a house you’ve lived in and list two strategies from the list that you’d be interested in trying at your home. In addition to those 2, come up with a third strategy from your own thinking.
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Design activity
Chapter 12: Your Garden
Chapter 13: The Food Forest
Chapter 14: The Birds and Bees
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One of the fundamental understandings of this class is the notion that different goals lead to different results. In this assignment, you will start from the same base information and come up with different designs based on the 2 different goals listed below. Using the downloadable “earth base map” provided at the bottom of this page, create 2 different designs using the goals below:
- a food-producing landscape for humans
- a supportive habitat for chickens and bees.
Scan your images or make a slideshow and insert it below:
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Chapter 15: If You are Farming
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If you had land, how would you use that land to provide an income for yourself? List three products you think would be interesting to produce for exchange or sale. Estimate the income you’d expect to make from selling/bartering each of those products and the time you’d need to make them. Draw a map of a 10 acre farm and locate the resources you need to produce your product on the map.
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Insert site map below:
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Chapter 16: Harvest Forests
Chapter 17: Natural Conservation Forests
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Make a list of 3 forest species you’d be interested in growing. List at least three potential outputs for each of those species.
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List three functions of a natural forest.
Function 1 – Protects the effect on the natural environment (water circulation, precipitation, air circulation, temperature, and control/prevention of soil erosion).
Function 2 – Produces resources (timber, food, etc).
Function 3 – Increase in soil fertility and checks on the spread of deserts.
How is a conservation forest different from a harvest forest? – A conservation forest is indigenous, old-growth, or a regenerated forest. It maintains forested areas for the benefit and sustainability of future generations and involves the upkeep of natural resources. Harvest forests are well-timbered and for long-term development. It’s a forest used to cut and remove natural resources such as trees to use for other things.
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Chapter 25: Money Matters
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In the chart below, list five of your assets according to the four types: degenerative, regenerative, procreative, and informational.
How rich are you according to this classification?
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Chapter 26: A Sense of Place
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For each category, list the assets we already have in place in our bioregion. Also list assets that we should have but don’t.
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