To figure out where to start, I used Dave’s, from Food Forest fame, template: Value Trees. I brainstormed all of the things I value and those values became the roots of my trees. They fit into 4 different trees: growing and eating my own food; recycling all of our water; living with nature inside the house; connecting with others. I simplified them into one word roots: Food, Water, Shelter, and Sharing. I’m considering if those should be my pages? It’s interesting that those are the basics of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs!
SHELTER BIOSHELTER PAGE
Needs: (great info)
1. to entice: architects, do-it-yourselfers, villagers, schools, greenies, water-starved states
to invite volunteers?
2. to give ideas of how folks can change their lifestyles?
3. to teach the history of….
a. funny stories as well as cultural stories (why I live this way)
Yields:
1. virtual and real time tours
2. Capital: social (make connections), financial, cultural (transmitting knowledge for future generations)
WATER PAGE
Needs: (great info)
1. to entice: architects, do-it-yourselfers, villagers, schools, greenies, water-starved states
to invite volunteers?
2. to give ideas of how folks can change their lifestyles?
3. to teach the history of….
a. funny stories as well as cultural stories (why I live this way)
Yields:
1. virtual and real time tours
2. Capital: social (make connections to ), financial, cultural (transmitting knowledge for future generations)
FOOD PAGE
Needs: (great info)
1. to entice: gardeners, do-it-yourselfers, permies, interns, woofers, to invite volunteers?
2. to give ideas of how folks can change their lifestyles? STOP buying at the grocery stores.
3. to teach methods of preserving and food security in Alaska
Yields:
1. Financial: workshops/courses
2. Capital: social (make connections), cultural (transmitting knowledge for future generations)
SHARING
Needs: (great interest)
1. Great Workshops and Courses
2. Volunteer opportunities
3. Why there’s a need for permaculture in Alaska: why change?
4. Get people to want to join the group
5. Sign up page
6. CONSULTING AND DESIGNING
install confidence in the designer (me)
what it looks like for schools
why you need a design
Each page needs to have multiple functions and each function should be on multiple pages, creating redundancy = sustainability.