Book: Just Enough

Just Enough: Lessons in Living Green from Traditional Japan

Azby Brown

With this book, you. will practice making drawings that communicate information as well as reinforce your understanding of permaculture principles by associating them with examples of practices described in the book.

    1. For each chapter, choose a set of illustrations from the book and make a hand-drawn copy. You may modify the illustrations as you like. Scan your drawing and insert it into a document that includes all of your chapter drawings and responses
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    2. For each chapter, describe the practice that was most interesting to you and choose a design principle that characterizes that practice.  Compare that practice to its counterpart in the present day.  Does the current practice also characterize your principle?  If not, do you think it would be possible to convert current behavior so that it follows the principle you listed? Add your written comments to your document.

The Farmer from Kai Province, pp. 18-72

due 9/7

Rice Cultivation, pp. 72-79

due 9/14

Rice Production and its Byproducts, pp. 80-81

due 9/21

Thatching a Roof, pp. 82-85

due 9/28

Building Materials and their Virtues, pp. 86-87

due 10/5

Learning from Field and Forest, pp. 88-108

due 10/12

The Carpenter of Edo, pp. 110-163

due 10/19

Ground Transportation, pp. 164-165

due 10/26

Learning from the Sustainable City, pp. 166-175

due 11/2

The Samurai of Edo, pp.176-207

due 11/9

Daimyo Estates, pp. 208-209

due 11/16

Learning from a Life of Restraint, pp. 210-218

due 11/23