[permaculture] "Societal" zonation and "evolution"
Donna Jones
djones at kodiak.alaska.edu
Mon Apr 19 09:46:03 EDT 2004
Zonation is such a good tool that I hate to see it blunted by mixing
metaphors. Used as originally conceived, it orders and clarifies the
physical aspects of a site in a way that immediately transfers to another
person. ('Zone 1 is as far as my hose reaches', for example.)
It is most imprecise to speak of society and ideas 'evolving' !
Developing; renewing, growing, changing, disintegrating, maturing, yes.
Even site plans and sites do not evolve, but again are changed, grow, die
out, colonize or are colonized, and so forth.
The essence of PermaCulture is that it is a created order. Permaculture
did not just happen randomly.
Donna Elizabeth
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