To all innovating renovating decision-making homeowners...
This page is for you. Use the tools it provides as you need. Modify them as you need. Use them to teach, document, refer to, etc.
I have put up a sample S.W.O.T. analysis chart. It examines the internal Strengths and Weaknesses and the external Opportunities and Threats.
Strengths provide leverage points to address the weaknesses, while Opportunities can alleviate the stresses and Threats drive the overall ethics behind the design.
I have also created a type of Ethics' Audit and decision making tool. It serves to show how each element of a house might follow the three ethics of Permaculture:
Earth care
Fair share
People Care
From researching a type of heating system to a specific brand of paint, these worksheets will help document and organize ideas. That way, when decision time comes around, choices based on cost, human needs and ecological health are facilitated.
It also acts as a scoring sheet, or Ethics' Audit. At the end of the project, when each of the elements in a house have a sheet filled out, the points may be added up and divided by the number of elements documented.
Feel free to use the Google Form, the downloadable document, and the How-to below wherever and whenever you need it.
Contact me with any questions: sgviandier@gmail.com