Ansa Permaculture Design is a service that matches your needs with the unique gifts and micro-climates of your site to create a productive, harmonious environment. Good permaculture design can improve your sustainability in food production, shelter, water and energy while lowering waste, work & maintenance.
Ansa Permaculture Design is based in county Cork, Ireland and collaborates with colleagues in permaculture design and installation where appropriate.
Ansa is Irish for dear/beloved/favorite and is also the name of an Indian solar-deity. Across cultures sun-gods bless by bringing order from chaos. The theme of intelligent organised solar design is central to permaculture and is a good symbol of what this service is all about.
Symbolism
The Ansa logo features a tree drawn to represent both art and technology. When this is “blessed” by Ansa as sun-god, it represents the reunification of art, technology and belief or philosophy.
Philosophy
As it stands, science and technology are great servants but very poor masters. Science can tell us how we are destroying the environment but it doesn’t have an opinion on whether this is a good or bad thing – it’s just true. We need philosophy and beliefs to direct science to useful and moral purposes. Our current economic system is based on continuous endless growth. We need to move away from this model before the earth is entirely consumed towards goals of happiness, the restoration of nature and inner growth. We can use science and technology in strategies towards these aims, rather than as ends in themselves. The ethics of permaculture mirror the tenets of social, environmental and economic sustainability founded at the Rio earth summit in 1992.Before researchers become researchers they should become philosophers. They should consider what the human goal is, what it is that humanity should create. Masanobu FukuokaHere is a list of influential books guiding and confirming our philosophy: https://permaculturedesign.ie/inspiration-and-influences/