Comments on: The Power of Enterprise Budgets: Permaculture, Holistic Management, and Financial Planning http://permaculture.org.au/2010/09/07/the-power-of-enterprise-budgets-permaculture-holistic-management-and-financial-planning/ Permaculture News, Commentary and Worldwide Projects. Tue, 22 May 2012 14:23:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: ethanappleseed http://permaculture.org.au/2010/09/07/the-power-of-enterprise-budgets-permaculture-holistic-management-and-financial-planning/#comment-53381 ethanappleseed Fri, 17 Sep 2010 16:55:11 +0000 http://permaculture.org.au/?p=3899#comment-53381 The program I used to create the designs in this post is Vectorworks, a piece of professional CAD software available from http://www.nemetschek.net/. Many designers in the permaculture world use Vectorworks: Warren Brush of True Nature Design, Leonard Barret of Barret Ecological, the Regenerative Design Group in Massachusetts, USA, and maybe more (do you know of any?) However, I wouldn't necessarily recommend this program for beginning permaculture designers. If anything, I think our movement should be training with SketchUp, which is free and has a lot of potential but needs practice and development for landscape design. For a list of the other software I use as a professional designer, Check out this blog post: http://appleseedpermaculture.com/geek-permaculture-computerizing/ The program I used to create the designs in this post is Vectorworks, a piece of professional CAD software available from http://www.nemetschek.net/. Many designers in the permaculture world use Vectorworks: Warren Brush of True Nature Design, Leonard Barret of Barret Ecological, the Regenerative Design Group in Massachusetts, USA, and maybe more (do you know of any?)

However, I wouldn’t necessarily recommend this program for beginning permaculture designers. If anything, I think our movement should be training with SketchUp, which is free and has a lot of potential but needs practice and development for landscape design.

For a list of the other software I use as a professional designer, Check out this blog post: http://appleseedpermaculture.com/geek-permaculture-computerizing/

]]> By: ethanappleseed http://permaculture.org.au/2010/09/07/the-power-of-enterprise-budgets-permaculture-holistic-management-and-financial-planning/#comment-53380 ethanappleseed Fri, 17 Sep 2010 16:49:55 +0000 http://permaculture.org.au/?p=3899#comment-53380 Thanks for all the supportive comments! And thanks Craig for culling the files a bit. One challenge with these budgets is that so many of them are focused on large-scale industrial agriculture - only a very few are organic, and even less are small-scale. What would it take for us as a permaculture community to create permaculture enterprise budgets for the top crops we're growing? Thanks for all the supportive comments! And thanks Craig for culling the files a bit. One challenge with these budgets is that so many of them are focused on large-scale industrial agriculture – only a very few are organic, and even less are small-scale.

What would it take for us as a permaculture community to create permaculture enterprise budgets for the top crops we’re growing?

]]> By: Nick Huggins http://permaculture.org.au/2010/09/07/the-power-of-enterprise-budgets-permaculture-holistic-management-and-financial-planning/#comment-52897 Nick Huggins Wed, 08 Sep 2010 22:12:06 +0000 http://permaculture.org.au/?p=3899#comment-52897 Awesome work Ethan. I hope that in those calculations you accounted for Ethan Roland in there somewhere? I think it’s important in these types of designs for commercial operations that your work is rewarded in the long term, and not just for the initial design. Keep these great post’s coming through mate. Awesome work Ethan. I hope that in those calculations you accounted for Ethan Roland in there somewhere? I think it’s important in these types of designs for commercial operations that your work is rewarded in the long term, and not just for the initial design.
Keep these great post’s coming through mate.

]]> By: Alexander Van Parys Piergili http://permaculture.org.au/2010/09/07/the-power-of-enterprise-budgets-permaculture-holistic-management-and-financial-planning/#comment-52894 Alexander Van Parys Piergili Wed, 08 Sep 2010 21:46:58 +0000 http://permaculture.org.au/?p=3899#comment-52894 Yes, it would be great to know what software is being used in the plans! Yes, it would be great to know what software is being used in the plans!

]]> By: Sam Jones http://permaculture.org.au/2010/09/07/the-power-of-enterprise-budgets-permaculture-holistic-management-and-financial-planning/#comment-52815 Sam Jones Tue, 07 Sep 2010 19:53:15 +0000 http://permaculture.org.au/?p=3899#comment-52815 Thanks so very much for this information. I also wanted to know what kind of program you used to create the design in the first photo. I am trying to get a good program that I can get contour lines on as well. Cheers, Sam Thanks so very much for this information. I also wanted to know what kind of program you used to create the design in the first photo. I am trying to get a good program that I can get contour lines on as well.

Cheers,

Sam

]]> By: Craig Mackintosh http://permaculture.org.au/2010/09/07/the-power-of-enterprise-budgets-permaculture-holistic-management-and-financial-planning/#comment-52807 Craig Mackintosh Tue, 07 Sep 2010 15:58:08 +0000 http://permaculture.org.au/?p=3899#comment-52807 Hi Matty - thanks for letting me know. I've just extracted Ethan's zip file, got rid of some rubbish Mac files that were in there, and have rezipped it and reuploaded to the server. Please try again. I've just downloaded the file, and extracted the zip with both WinRar and Winzip, and it worked fine for me with both (WinRar being faster). Let me know if you still have problems. Hi Matty – thanks for letting me know. I’ve just extracted Ethan’s zip file, got rid of some rubbish Mac files that were in there, and have rezipped it and reuploaded to the server. Please try again. I’ve just downloaded the file, and extracted the zip with both WinRar and Winzip, and it worked fine for me with both (WinRar being faster). Let me know if you still have problems.

]]> By: Leung Chi Wan http://permaculture.org.au/2010/09/07/the-power-of-enterprise-budgets-permaculture-holistic-management-and-financial-planning/#comment-52801 Leung Chi Wan Tue, 07 Sep 2010 13:51:49 +0000 http://permaculture.org.au/?p=3899#comment-52801 Just a reminder, if we "Look to the Land", "The Fundamental economics of farming can only be expressed in terms of total effect on the fertility of the world". And "Small is beautiful". Just a reminder, if we “Look to the Land”, “The Fundamental economics of farming can only be expressed in terms of total effect on the fertility of the world”.
And “Small is beautiful”.

]]> By: Matty http://permaculture.org.au/2010/09/07/the-power-of-enterprise-budgets-permaculture-holistic-management-and-financial-planning/#comment-52789 Matty Tue, 07 Sep 2010 10:02:48 +0000 http://permaculture.org.au/?p=3899#comment-52789 Hi Ethan, I unzipped the file and some of the files seem to need a password to unzip. I was able to unzip 93 Mb of the files. Cheers Hi Ethan, I unzipped the file and some of the files seem to need a password to unzip. I was able to unzip 93 Mb of the files.

Cheers

]]> By: Matty http://permaculture.org.au/2010/09/07/the-power-of-enterprise-budgets-permaculture-holistic-management-and-financial-planning/#comment-52788 Matty Tue, 07 Sep 2010 09:44:22 +0000 http://permaculture.org.au/?p=3899#comment-52788 This is absolutely brilliant! Thank you, thank you, thank you! Matthew This is absolutely brilliant! Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Matthew

]]> By: Justin http://permaculture.org.au/2010/09/07/the-power-of-enterprise-budgets-permaculture-holistic-management-and-financial-planning/#comment-52772 Justin Tue, 07 Sep 2010 04:26:12 +0000 http://permaculture.org.au/?p=3899#comment-52772 Thanks amazing resource,great story ,great work. Thanks amazing resource,great story ,great work.

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