I'm now up to the forth permaculture principle, so I think I should start by going back over the first three principles in case you've forgotten what I'm talking about, before I launch into "apply self-regulation and accept feedback". I first wrote about discovering permaculture in this post , and even though I tried to define permaculture, its pretty difficult to explain, and probably makes more sense after you've thought about all the principles. This is my favourite definition: Permaculture is a design system based on ethics and design principles which can be used to guide efforts made by individuals, households and communities towards a sustainable future. ( http://permacultureprinciples.com/ ) Permaculture is based on three ethics: earth care (sustaining natural systems), people care (making the products of natural systems available to people) and fair share (governing our needs so that resources are available to all). 12 permaculture princip...